Digital Government
SSA ready for Year 2000
The Social Security Administration's 10year, $48 million Year 2000 remediation effort soon will be tested, and the agency's commissioner said Tuesday the agency has been ready for a while.
Digital Government
Mississippi picks online training for educators
Mississippi's Education Department has selected Classroom Connect's Connected University as its online professional development program for educators.
Digital Government
Terrorism more threatening than technology
Terrorism, not failing computers, poses the greatest threat to Americans who are overseas when 2000 arrives, State Department officials said Monday.
Digital Government
Details emerge on e-government directive
Agencies will be pushed to use more and more information technology to improve Americans' quality of life, according to details released Monday on Clinton's technology directive.
Digital Government
West Des Moines, Iowa, Experiences Y2K Glitch
About 3,600 customers in West Des Moines, Iowa, last week received water bills that said a late fee would be charged for payments made after Jan. 3, 1900, an error caused when billing software interpreted the 00 as 1900, not 2000.
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Wisconsin Goes Live With Benefits Application
Wisconsin this week debuts a Webbased application that eventually will give its 210,000 state employees much quicker access to information on their health insurance plans.
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Justice Department Grants to Combat Net Crimes Against Kids
The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has awarded nearly $3 million in grants to 10 state and local law enforcement agencies to combat the sexual exploitation of children over the Internet.
Digital Government
Feds leave doors open for hackers
After repeated break-ins through the same door, a shaken business owner likely would get the message and buy a sturdy lock, a big dog or a loud alarm.
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Tapping into astronauts' health data
Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. The blanket of fog cutting visibility around San Francisco International Airport as seen from an air traffic control tower looked real.
Digital Government
Sometimes seeing is not believing
Since the early 19th century, people have come to accept what they see in photographs as reality. The adage that the camera never lies has come to be accepted as historical fact, buttressed by the faith taken daily by all who read a newspaper or magazine that what is depicted in photos actually happened.
Digital Government
Inacom retreats from fed market
Computer reseller Inacom Corp.'s decision last week to sell its federal government business shows just how tight the federal IT market has become since the advent of direct sales and procurement reform, forces that market watchers say are squeezing profit margins and toughening competition in the channel.
Digital Government
TeleSweep ferrets out vulnerable modems
Army information technology managers last week urged senior leaders to speed up the vexing process of granting security clearances to contractors and permanent personnel assigned to work on missioncritical systems.
Digital Government
Smithsonian makes an art of Web posting
In an effort to move art from the wall to the Web, the Smithsonian Institution has begun to capture digital images of its artifacts and photography collections to post on the Internet
Digital Government
High-end servers crack the glass house
The federal government data center, once the exclusive domain of the mainframe, increasingly is inhabited by highend Unixbased servers and Microsoft Corp.
Digital Government
FCW turns new page
This issue of Federal Computer Week you hold in your hands is the last tabloidsize edition FCW will publish.
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What's it worth to you?
At what point does it make more sense to pay $200 for desktop software rather than $20 for a competing product?
Digital Government
FAA oceanic tracker ready for takeoff
The Federal Aviation Administration has revitalized its plan to automate the way aircraft are tracked and routed as they cross the ocean.
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