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Interior loses Internet service following court mandate

Most Interior Department agencies began their first full week without Internet service today, as they complied with the Dec. 5 order of U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth to disconnect their systems from the Internet. The judge’s order stemmed from longstanding litigation over mismanaged American Indian trust funds and the vulnerability of the trust fund databases to hacking via the Internet.

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Security efforts can't be mailed in

Agencies need to ensure that their e-mail systems are as secure as possible

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Intercepts

White House to Name DOD Deputy CIO? DOD Enlists Private Sector to Bring Cheer; NORAD Tracking ... Santa

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Pushing the envelope

Greater product complexity and user needs raise the stakes for agency e-mail plans

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Dot-gov by design

Getting government Web sites to effectively provide information and transactions remains an elusive art

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IRS takes on old-style paperwork

The IRS has signed a licensing deal for software to scan reams of paper documents into its computer databases

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Tapping a data mother lode

CIA spin-off sees wealth of information in e-mail, Web pages and other sources

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Place security before politics

Bureaucratus column: Federal employees probably will be paid twice as much as their private-sector counterparts, attracting more skilled workers

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Siebel picks its targets

Vendor views customer relationship management as central to homeland security, e-government initiatives

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Logistics update pays dividends

The Air Force this month begins testing an update to one of its central logistics systems that could help supply its forces in the Middle East

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Gauging IT investments

A new process to evaluate information technology investments using science, statistics and mathematical models is getting so much attention that even the government's statistical experts will take it for a spin early next year

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Managers peg e-gov, culture as top concerns

Improving electronic services, not security, is the No. 1 challenge, according to study

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SAIC lands Spawar contract

SSC San Diego acquires engineering services to support voice and data communications

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Navy finds a more efficient mail call

Lotus Development Corp.'s Domino is helping the Navy streamline electronic communications with the ships of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets

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Ending a moot debate

Editorial: The debate over a national identification card has been unfortunately cast as Big Brother vs. civil liberties

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Pangea focuses on assistive technologies

The Pangea Foundation is developing a suite of middleware technologies to help application developers construct Web pages with assistive capabilities embedded in them

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Unions ready to fight Bush management plan

The Freedom to Manage initiative could be losing some of its momentum

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Latest FAIR lists set up battle lines

The latest list of federal jobs that are potential candidates for outsourcing has drawn stark battle lines between the private sector and government workers

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IT in play at Olympics

A new State Department visa system screens coaches and athletes for terrorist connections

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Forman promotes e-gov resource sharing

Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget’s associate director for IT and e-government, has been holding face-to-face meetings with agency program managers to persuade them to share funds for OMB’s 23 approved e-government initiatives.<@SM><@SM>