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Internet enables surfing for secrets
The Internet is one of the primary vehicles by which classified information often falls into the wrong hands, a Pentagon study shows
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Rethinking the human factor
NSF project to develop systems that put people at ease with working together online
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Archives clarifies its e-recordkeeping plan
To update its operating regulations for the Digital Age, the National Archives and Records Administration has proposed new rules that would permit document requests via e-mail and allow the agency to respond with electronic documents as well as paper photocopies.
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Surveying the center
ACS Government Solutions Group conducted a survey this summer at Goddard Space Flight Center to find out what employees thought of the service on nine e-mail servers.
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Partner picked to build FirstGov
Autonomy has partnered with AT?#038; Amp;T's GRC International to help build the government Internet portal, FirstGov
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Surfing Web sites for fed workers
Today's federal employees are faced with a daunting challenge: keeping up with the latest changes that affect their job, pay, family, health and future. This is further complicated, and also aided, by the increasing number of Web sites geared toward the federal worker. The question is: What's out there and where should you go?
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E-gov push spotlights CIOs' strategy
The federal CIO Council is drafting a strategic plan for the next fiscal year that calls for its committees to move egovernment projects forward on a brisk timetable.
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Adobe tackles its accessibility dilemma
As they prepare to comply with new requirements to make Web sites readable by visually impaired users, federal Webmasters point to a major concern Portable Document Format files.
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The IRS wants its due
Under an Internal Revenue Service collection program that got under way last month, certain individuals and businesses with unpaid tax bills may be subject to a continual 15 percent levy on money due them from the federal government.
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Justice shops for Carnivore review
The Justice Department has posted a RFP for a university to conduct an independent technical review of Carnivore, the email bugging system
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Streamlining complaints
Pity the federal worker who files a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. With any luck, it will take four years or more to get a ruling on the case.
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The ultimate archives
The National Archives may have found a way to make erecords available for generations to come
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CIO committees
The CIO Council expects to approve its strategic plan for the next fiscal year at its Sept. 21 meeting. A draft of the new plan is more detailed than the existing one and assigns specific objectives to each committee.
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'Anytime, any place' archivist
When he was nominated to be archivist of the United States in 1995, John Carlin was not a popular choice.
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EEOC checklist
The following are examples of job discrimination topics that a proposed list of 200 questions would encompass as part of a database that would track complaints in the federal government.
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Autonomy Corp. to aid effort
Autonomy Corp., a provider of Internet infrastructure technology, has partnered with GRC International Inc. to help build FirstGov.
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CIO Council goes on offense
With time running out before the new fiscal year begins, the CIO Council plans to issue two memorandums within the next two weeks to agencies and Congress that urge putting in place policies that would better secure government computers.
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