People

Plans across the waters

U.S. learns from U.K. e-gov experience

People

UK readies privacy charter

Charter will tell citizens how their information is used when they interact with the government online

People

Air Force soups up command center

Air Force is establishing a new high-tech command center to monitor the no-fly zone over Iraq

Modernization

Air Force studying broader use of Direct

The faster messaging system fielded by U.S. nuclear-weapons forces could also aid mobile command centers

People

Navy awards network contract

General Dynamics wins a $102.2 million deal to upgrade Navy network infrastructure outside the U.S.

People

Navy preps networking deal

The Navy is preparing to award a delivery order for networking products and services to cover its locations outside the United States.

People

Collaboration prepped for intell

Officials are readying the intelligence piece of the Global Information Grid for review, funding

People

DOD braced for cyberattack

Official notes that networks detected '2 million probes or scans from a Chinese source'

People

DOD intelligence mulls digital legal banks

Led by efforts from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, officials within the Defense Department and military intelligence agencies are conducting preliminary discussions to develop an automated knowledge bank for their intelligence legal offices.

People

Agency mines e-gov help

Booz-Allen is Web-enabling the Minerals Management Service's offshore leasing program

Digital Government

Powell prioritizes State IT

Colin Powell testifies for 'broad-based Internet access' for department employees worldwide

Digital Government

A surging, chaotic power

Poised to overtake China as the world's most populous country, India has entered the 21st century with great potential and challenges

Digital Government

New Cray aids Arctic research

The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) has begun using a new Cray Inc. supercomputer in one of the first projects to investigate how changes in the Arctic may influence world climate.

Modernization

System speeds nuclear messages

Commanders of nuclear forces soon will have a new emergency action message system

People

SAIC celebrates National Guard IT

Company deploying worldwide IT architecture for Army National Guard and Reserve units

People

Global e-gov inching forward

Even the three most advanced e-governments in the world have a lot of work to do

People

Putting words into action

Information gap sparks reform at State Department

People

Company takes State's Spanish calls

TeleTech will route Spanishlanguage inquiries for visa information to a call center in Mexico

Digital Government

International cybercrime treaty advances slowly

Early this month, I was a witness at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee hearing on its draft treaty on cybercrime.

Acquisition

NSA blazes ahead on IT systems

Agency makes progress on two major IT programs: Trailblazer and Groundbreaker