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Coming to a PC Near You: Florida Town Meetings
Florida held its first 'Cyber Town Meeting' last month, using the World Wide Web to broadcast presentations by Gov. Jeb Bush and other state officials about the impact of information technology on the state.
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Iowa City Steps Up Web Strategy
After several years of taking part in a regional World Wide Web initiative, Iowa City, Iowa, this week will debut its own Web site.
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Pentagon confident Russian nuclear plants will withstand Y2K
The Defense Department this week delivered thousands of fire extinguishers and dozens of fire trucks, computers, printers, fax machines and mobile radios to Russia, where they will be used to bolster the safety of that country's nuclear storage facilities during the Year 2000 date change.
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Critical procurement system running out of headroom
The Defense Department's program for fielding the $326 million Standard Procurement System may soon come to a screeching halt at various Navy and Marine Corps installations unless a solution can be found for the system's skyrocketing storage requirements.
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DISA office secures spot in training
Training has surfaced as a critical component of protecting federal information resources against modernday cyberattacks, and one resource for information security training lies in the Defense Information Systems Agency's Infosec Program Management Office.
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'Virtual' tower to ease airport traffic
Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. The blanket of fog cutting visibility around San Francisco International Airport as seen from an air traffic control tower looked real.
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DOD to monitor bases worldwide
The United States and Russia have installed seven redundant communications links between national leaders in Washington and Moscow to ensure communications during the Year 2000 rollover, according to a message from the U.S. Defense Attache Office (DAO) in Moscow obtained by FCW.
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Microsoft, Lotus battle hits Marines
The Marine Corps last week signed a deal with Microsoft Corp. for a 70,000seat enterprise license for its Office desktop software, adding more fuel to a controversy raging across government regarding stacked competition and billions of dollars in lost savings in office automation software. The Mar
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Biometric solutions unveiled at Comdex
With the everincreasing need for security, many companies are turning to biometrics as a way to protect against the potential security breaches common with passwords, which can be easily stolen, lost or forgotten.
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Identities of MIAs await confirmation by consultants
The Army's Central Identification Laboratory today emphasized that it will not complete the identification process for the last combatants killed in the Vietnam War until outside review boards approve the case files developed by lab scientists and anthropologists.
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Vets take on Knife 31 IDs: Semper Fidelis
Randall Austin, who commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marine Regiment during the Mayaguez rescue, described the four-year effort to recover and identify the crew and passengers of the Air Force helicopter shot down during the rescue as living up to the spirit of the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful.
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The 13 Mayaguez MIAs
Randall Austin, who commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marine Regiment during the Mayaguez rescue, described the four-year effort to recover and identify the crew and passengers of the Air Force helicopter shot down during the rescue as living up to the spirit of the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful.
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Hi-tech offers families of Korea vets closure
The return last week of the remains of three American soldiers killed during the Korean War at the battle of Chongchon River in 1950 highlighted how advanced software and computer processing power is shortening the time it takes to identify remains and match them with the records of missing soldiers.
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IT fills in puzzle of Korean, Vietnam War MIAs
For years, the remains of the last 13 men killed in the Vietnam War?immortalized on the bottom of the last panel of "the Wall" in Washington, D.C.?have lain unidentified on a table in a nondescript building here at Hickham Air Force Base.
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Databases don't always tell the whole story
The 800,000 tourists who visit the Korean War memorial in Washington, D.C., this year may be surprised to find out that the database at the memorial, known as the Honor Roll, does not represent the official number of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines killed in action during the Korean War.
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Final hours of the last MIAs in Vietnam
For most Americans, the war in Vietnam ended April 29, 1975, when the U.S. ambassador to Saigon officially evacuated his post. But for a small band of Marines, there would be one final mission.
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Pentagon labels computer morphing a war crime
A Defense Department study on how international law could be applied to the military's use of information operations (IO) and computer network attack concludes that though there are no show stoppers preventing the Department's use of such tactics in war, communicating false computer-generated images would be a war crime under certain circumstances.
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Feds ready for Y2K, but local 911 systems remain at risk
With only 50 days left until the first day of the new millennium, 99 percent of the federal government's missioncritical computer systems are prepared to handle the date change, according to the Clinton administration's final Year 2000 report released today.
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Commerce's compliance with FAIR Act 'not credible'
Some organizations within the Commerce Department have been less than forthcoming in putting together their annual lists of IT-related jobs that could be contracted out to the private sector, according to the Information Technology Association of America.
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