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Senate to feds: Move quicker on infrastructure protection
Faced with a growing number of threats to the nation's critical infrastructure, Senate leaders on Wednesday said they would start demanding results from government and privatesector attempts to protect critical information systems, including urging the Clinton administration to make funding such initiatives a high priority.
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Va. Democrats and Republicans Buy Into Web Campaign Software
Representatives in Virginia's Democratic and Republican parties have purchased the an integrated campaign software package for use in this year's state elections.
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Lack of systems security skills reaching critical mass for feds
A leading national security expert on Wednesday told Congress that the shortage of skilled information systems security personnel throughout the government has reached crisis proportions and has contributed to the recent spate of intrusions into federal networks.
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CD-ROM warns junior high kids about drugs
Under pressure to combat drug trafficking in the nation's heartland, Iowa has tapped a Fairfax, Va.based company to develop a CDROM to help educate seventh and eighthgraders in six Midwestern states about the harmful effects of illegal drugs.
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11th Signal Brigade to provide comm support in East Timor
The Army Signal Command, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., will deploy 120 soldiers from its 11th Signal Brigade to provide communications support to U.N. forces operating in East Timor, with the first contingent leaving today at 1 p.m. MDT.
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Panel: Future attacks on U.S. info systems likely
Leaders of a federal commission told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that attacks on United States information systems by small terrorist groups are likely to threaten the country's national interests in the next 25 years.
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Congress eliminates funding for new civilian GPS signal
Despite objections by the Clinton administration, Congress this week passed a Transportation Department spending bill that eliminates all funding for a new highprecision satellite signal for use by civilian users of the Global Positioning System.
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Bill enhances DOE security
President Clinton on Tuesday signed into law a bill that calls for sweeping changes to the security posture of the Energy Department, including a provision to create a new cybersecurity red team to conduct realtime evaluations of DOE computer networks.
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Governor declares GIS day in Kentucky
Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton last week signed a proclamation declaring Nov. 19 as Kentucky Geographic Information Systems Day, to coincide with the last day of national Geography Awareness Week.
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D.C. Mayor, FCC Chairman Help Open New Tech Center
Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams and Federal Communication Commission chairman William Kennard were on hand Monday at the grand opening of a computer training facility that will serve the nation's capital.
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Security weaknesses prevalent at Treasury's FMS
Systematic security weaknesses at the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service could leave the billions of dollars collected and paid out by the organization open to fraud, according to the General Accounting Office.
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N.C. Web Site Aids Floyd Cleanup
When Hurricane Floyd bore down on the North Carolina coast last month, Gov. James Hunt asked his information technology department to provide the state's citizens with a single Internet point of contact for information on the storm and its impact.
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DOD: 300,000 jobs possible for outsourcing
The Defense Department will have more than 300,000 jobs listed as potentially available for outsourcing to the private sector in its inventory under review at the Office of Management and Budget this month.
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Colorado Appoints Secretary of Technology
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens recently announced that Marc Holtzman would assume fulltime leadership of the Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT) as Secretary of Technology and relinquish his post as head of the state's International Trade Office.
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Y2K lessons apply to information security
The federal government must apply the lessons it has learned from addressing the Year 2000 problem to its efforts to protect its critical infrastructure from information security threats, according to a General Accounting Office report issued this week.
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DOD gives medical systems clean bill of health
The Defense Department successfully completed an endtoend Year 2000 test of the computer systems in its Medical Health Care System and found no failures due to bad Year 2000 date code.
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Navy: Y2K will cause few waves
The Navy expects Year 2000 computer problems to result in few, if any incidents that would requite a heightened state of readiness, according to a Navywide message from Adm. Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations.
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Medicare, managed care organizations behind on Y2K work
Many of the nation's Medicare providers and managed care organizations have not taken the necessary steps to ensure their computer systems will be Year 2000compliant, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Tech Corps-DC has students manage school LAN
Tech CorpsDC, a technical support volunteer program, is unveiling an initiative that gives students at a Washington, D.C., high school the responsibility of managing and maintaining their school's localarea network.
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