Also in the news: OMB not reinventing GovNet
OMB's Trusted Internet Connections initiative will not result in the kind of single, governmentwide network once proposed by Richard Clarke, Federal News Radio reports.
The Bush administration has no intention of reviving the idea of creating a single government intranet, Federal News Radio reports.
In 2001, White House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke suggested such a concept, which he dubbed GovNet, in response to mounting security threats.
But Karen Evans, the Office of Management and Budget's administrator for e-government and information technology, says the plan for the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) will be a "mesh network," not the separate network that Clarke envisioned, according to Federal News Radio.