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Push for tech worker visas renewed
As Congress returns this week, hightech groups are urging lawmakers to raise the cap on H1B visas, which allow skilled foreigners to work in the U.S.
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Site to monitor global slave trade
The State Department is sponsoring a Web site to draw attention to the international crisis of trafficking in human beings
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A portal for all reasons
The Air Force plans to unveil an enterprise portal in October that will integrate more than 28,000 information systems and help service members cut through the reams of red tape that often prevent them from getting the data needed to do their jobs.
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Software that filters
W. Quinn Associates Inc. sells software that monitors downloads to the server, blocks offensive or restricted files specified by an administrator, and compiles reports on the kinds of files that are downloaded and from which workstations.
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Making expert decisions
Anyone who has ever moved from one home to another or had to change office locations knows it is not exactly a pleasant experience.
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Group recommends steps for access
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee's latest report calls for a federal Office for Electronic Government and other measures
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Intercepts
Montgomery, Ala. James Adams, chief executive officer of iDefense Inc., a network and computer security consulting firm, last week told a crowd of Air Force communicators at the Air Force Information Technology Conference here that Russian officials recently confided to him that they consider World War III to be taking place right now with the United States.
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Agencies rally behind DOT system
The Transportation Department's plan to outsource a Web-based travel and expense system is gaining supporters.
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No red tape
An Air Force directory with updated contact information for all service personnel, including e-mail addresses issued to each new recruit.
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'Freewheeling' states jumping into e-gov
Under pressure to provide better government services, states and municipalities are jumping into e-government faster than their better- financed big brother, the federal government, according to a survey of 37 states and 60 federal agencies.
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CivicLife getting personal
CivicLife.com, a startup that is building a World Wide Web portal to provide information and transactions for all civic institutions, has partnered with SilverStream Software Inc. to enable individual consumers to customize the site.
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Moving IRS into the future
Bert Concklin likes to visit towns that are frozen in time. Places such as Savannah, Ga., New Hope, Pa., and Old Town Alexandria in Virginia. And he likes to collect antique toys and trains of a bygone era.
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Download clampdown
Stop the music. That's the order from Justice and State department officials to employees who have been downloading music files from the Internet which not only slows down computer networks but also possibly results in copyright violations.
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Full strength at OMB
The Office of Management and Budget has all its top officials in place for the first time in more than three years, a circumstance that experts say should give it more clout during the closing months of the Clinton administration.
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Navy secures supply lines
The Naval Supply Systems Command has tapped nCipher Corp. to help secure its online transactions.
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Ind. lobbyists register online
A new feature on Access Indiana, the state's Web portal, enables lobbyists to register and report activities and gifts online.
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Take it slow
The California Internet Voting Task Force advises 'evolutionary rather than revolutionary change' when it comes to casting ballots online.
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