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Security: Who should be in charge?
Should the Defense Department assume responsibility for safeguarding the country's communications infrastructure?
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Preparing for inevitable threats to security
The CIO Council is stepping up its efforts to help federal managers understand and address the challenges of protecting systems and data.
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Energy wires Web portal to fuel easy user access
The Energy Department unveils a new portal today that will make it easier for people to find information with a click of their mouse from tips on cutting energy costs to saving the environment
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Net transactions: A style guide
It's not every day that industry heavyweights like IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Ariba Inc., Dell Computer Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. agree to work together on an Internetrelated initiative.
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DFAS mulls outsourcing pay system
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service is testing the outsourcing waters again to determine whether the private sector can more efficiently and more frugally manage the system it uses to processes billions of dollars of payments for military retirees and their family members.
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Retirement system on the mend
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board announced this week that Thrift Savings Plan participants can begin investing in two new investment funds starting in May
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E-gov pleases, worries Americans
A survey shows the public is receptive to electronic government but worried about the security and privacy of their personal information
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NASIRE brimming with ideas
With more than 400 government and industry reps circulating at the NASIRE conference, news and ideas were swirling too
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Research group to check out Carnivore
The Justice Department has found a research group to study its controversial email bugging system called Carnivore
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Poll gives peek at IT execs' views
Spot polls conducted this week during the NASIRE annual conference captured IT executives' opinions on the progress of digital government
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Energy recharges Web site
The Energy Department will unveil a portal next week that that's designed to be as useful to consumers as it is to scientists
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DOD ready to roll out smart cards
The Defense Department next month will begin replacing millions of its identification cards with smart cards
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Kansas centralizing child support
The state's centralized child support payment system will simplify the process for families and employers
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CIOs: E-gov empowers people
The citizen-as-customer approach to governance is an improvement from the bureaucratic model of the past, but it does not go far enough, two state CIOs say
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Suspect arrested in NASA hack
A 20yearold California man is being charged in hacking incidents involving NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several university computers
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Small firm to deliver DOD system
Science?#038;Engineering Associates earns a $850 million contract to provide DOD with a new system for tracking military members and dependents
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Would you appoint an IT czar? To do what?
Presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush answer Federal Computer Week's questions about federal IT policy.
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Should more government IT jobs be outsourced?
Presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush answer Federal Computer Week's questions about federal IT policy.
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