Digital Government
CA offers new virus fighters
Computer Associates International Inc. last month announced two new information security products that are designed to protect networks from viruses that spread through email.
Digital Government
New funding tools needed
The U.S. Customs Service, similar to many agencies that interact directly with the general public, is seeing its transaction volume rising sharply but its investment in information technology staying monotonously flat.
People
Software a 'Click' for smaller governments
Tidemark Solutions is unveiling products that target smaller governments that do not have the resources to provide e-gov applications
Digital Government
XML editor strengthened
SoftQuad Software Inc. last week introduced a new version of its popular XMetaL software that agencies can use to create content based on Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Digital Government
Five layers of system protection
Under direction from the FAA Office of Information Systems Security, five layers of system protection will be examined at each Federal Aviation Administration facility:
Digital Government
Web sites play updating game
The federal government's World Wide Web sites are a work in progress ? redesign work on many of them begins as soon as they are loaded onto the Internet.
Digital Government
Hitting a high-tech trifecta
XML, Java and Linux form backbone of interagency app
Digital Government
The Customs crisis
The agency's ailing import system shows how old ways of funding put IT infrastructure at risk
Digital Government
Producing holographic movies
Making a featurelength, threedimensional, holographic movie will require fixing numerous images on one crystal and rotating the crystal as the images are being read, creating an effect similar to traditional film making in which rapidly displaying images gives the appearance of movement.
Digital Government
Xerox beefs up printers
Xerox Corp. today launched five new members of its Document Centre family of digital copiers/printers
People
Building the future work force
When the Pentagon tasks you with drafting a detailed blueprint for how to recruit and retain the future acquisition work force, it helps to be a multifaceted person.
People
Get ready for the transition
It is a pleasure to find myself postY2K with the opportunity to communicate monthly with my former coworkers in the federal government and those in industry who support them. I write this from Tokyo, where, as in Washington and Ottawa, the government has set a goal of putting all its transactions online by 2003. This is the traditional approach to egovernment.
People
San Fran to launch Web portal
The city and county of San Francisco will launch a site in July that will offer an array of electronic government services
Digital Government
SilverStream smooths Web site workings
Agencies that plan to build World Wide Webbased transactional applications will want to include SilverStream 3.0 as part of the evaluation process
People
DOD system to ease moving woes
Planning a move is never fun especially for military service personnel who are uprooted about 20 times during their careers to places they know little or nothing about.
Digital Government
Toshiba refreshes notebook line
A notebook computer equipped with desktop processing power and interactive esupport is among the Toshiba's new releases
Digital Government
FAA security office opens for business
The hundreds of facilities and the thousands of systems and personnel at the Federal Aviation Administration can look like Mount Everest to someone in charge of information security.
People
A bridge too far?
The use of public-key infrastructure to enable secure electronic transactions has been expanding in government, but so far it's been limited to isolated programs aimed at individual agency applications.
People