Digital Government
A quick boot on the move
Federal employees who are constantly on the move and need to boot their PCs in a hurry or perform administrative tasks including operating system recoveries now have a product that can do both.
Digital Government
Security funding foiled by politics
The Clinton administration is urgently seeking a 15 percent increase in funding for critical infrastructure protection initiatives in its fiscal 2001 budget, but its request is being blocked by electionyear politics and partisan paralysis, according to experts.
Digital Government
Round 2
'N/MCI: Buyers beware' [FCW, July 24] should have said that if the Navy opted to conduct a test pilot of its proposed megaintranet, users at the Naval Air Systems Command would have had to pay more than 50 percent more per seat during the first year than the estimated average cost during the first year of the contract.
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Finding a way to fix brain drain
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking forward to the expansion of a program that gives it greater flexibility in hiring science and engineering experts.
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Kiosks link people to government
Washington, D.C., has received its first interactive kiosk designed to deliver government information and services to people who lack online access
Digital Government
Will Linux steal the party?
Linux once was seen as a 'Windows killer,' but that potential seems to have faded.
Digital Government
The circuit
Margaret Evans, the acting deputy associate director for national security at the Office of Management and Budget, leaves her job next month to join Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s federal office in Herndon, Va., where she'll handle information assurance and intelligence.
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Congress: Stay out of the cookie jar
Just as agencies seem poised to begin offering more electronic services, digital government advocates are worried that recent efforts to control the collection of personal data on federal World Wide Web sites may slow the movement.
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Clinton pushes access
Agencies have a renewed sense of urgency to provide technology that is accessible to everyone.
Acquisition
SEWP buying site put on back burner
Instead of trying to fit a square block into a round hole, NASA is taking a step back from its plan to build a World Wide Webbased ordering site in order to study the best model for its customers
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VA, FEMA go digital
The General Services Administration opened the doors even wider to the Electronic Age by handing out 100,000 digital certificates last week to the Department of Veterans Affairs and 10,000 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Meeting of the minds
Benefits of the DARPA Experimental Personnel Management Program for Technology Workers, according to DARPA's first annual report to Congress
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Step-by-step design
The Small Business Administration followed eight steps, as dictated by the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997, when designing its loanmonitoring system.
Digital Government
The supercomputer's building blocks
Following are the individual components or 'bricks' included in the new Silicon Graphics Inc. supercomputer:
Digital Government
Labs make room for high performance
NASA, Air Force researchers turn to new SGI supercomputer for high performance at a low cost and small space
Digital Government
Feds digitize spread of West Nile virus
USGS has launched a hightech surveillance effort to track the spread of the virus using stateoftheart mapping and geographic information systems
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Securing the 'command center'
Other security efforts under way, as detailed in the July 14 memo to senior Pentagon officials from Rudy de Leon, the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness:
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