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Technology key to tracking down Internet crime
A recently formed working group focused on rooting out Internetrelated crime may model technologies that law enforcement agencies use to sift through the Internet to keep tabs on online illegal activity. President Clinton this month established the working group, made up of top government official
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NRC site offers nuclear plant info; online licensing
If you have ever passed a nuclear power plant and watched puffy clouds of steam rise into the sky, you may have thought with some trepidation 'How safe is this place?' Now you may be able to use the Internet to find out. This year, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission changed the way it goes a
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Spinning a Web of information
It probably helps that Rich Kellett spends his free time whipping around pommel horses, sprinting across mats, launching into handsprings and folding his spinning torso around parallel bars. As the head of the General Services Administration's Emerging Information Technologies Policies Division, Ke
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NRC site shares evaluations of nuclear power plants
As part of a pilot test of new way to inspect nuclear power plants, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this month began posting on its World Wide Web site the evaluations of nine nuclear power stations.
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Clinton names scientists to lead panel
President Clinton has appointed two scientists to be cochairmen of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, a group that provides executivelevel guidance on computing issues.
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WebGov still suffers delays
After more than a year of work, a project to organize and centralize all federal government information on the Internet is still at least months away from completion. But the government's intentions to some day launch the megasite called WebGov has not stopped private companies from moving in, org
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SSA offers Web training to site staff
The Social Security Administration plans to hire a vendor to develop an inhouse World Wide Web training curriculum and teach Internetrelated classes to agency employees who contribute to the SSA Web site. The six classes would be offered sporadically for a year and would be open to all 43 employe
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Plugging into application services
Renting software applications via the Internet is poised to become a booming business in the fastpaced Internet economy, but the practice undoubtedly will take longer to filter down to government than to the private sector, where it is starting to bloom in small and midsize companies, experts said
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Bill reopens encryption access debate
Renewing efforts to allow law enforcement agencies to access and read suspected criminals' encrypted electronic files, the Clinton administration has drafted a bill that would give those agencies access to the electronic 'keys' held by third parties. The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act, the draf
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Clinton sets up group to find how to pinpoint illegal Internet activity
President Clinton on Wednesday set up a working group that will be made up of federal managers to study unlawful conduct on the Internet.
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Agencies banned from buying 'incidentals'
A ruling last month by the comptroller general that made illegal a widely used method for buying products that are not listed on the General Services Administration schedule could change the way government agencies go about making purchases, according to procurement specialists. Many federal agenci
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Agencies to build PC skills database
Two federal agencies have teamed up to develop a database that would include an outline of the computer skills that all federal employees must have to do their jobs and a storehouse of online computer training courses. The Education Department and the Interior Department's Minerals Management Servi
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Agencies asked to post Web docs
At least two federal organizations chastised in a new report for failing to make information widely available to the public via the Internet say they are working toward placing the targeted material online. The Washington, D.C.based Center for Democracy and Technology last week unveiled its '10 Mo
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NIMA declassifies images for climate study
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency this week declassified 59 satellite images of the Arctic Ocean that will be used by scientists interested in understanding connections between polar ice caps and global warming.
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Institute to put mediator resources online
The federal government is sponsoring the development of a World Wide Web site that will help find common ground for people who disagree over what should or should not be done with natural resources. The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, an executive branch agency created by
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New GSA schedule draws Web designers
The popularity of a new General Services Administration schedule for marketing and media relations a schedule that also contains a category for World Wide Web design has 'exceeded expectations,' with 10 companies already on the schedule and many more expected to be placed on it in coming months
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USGS to track training via Web
To better organize employee training records and to make signing up for classes easier, the U.S. Geological Survey plans to develop a World Wide Webbased system that would track training for its 12,000 employees. Virginia Miles, an ethics program officer in charge of training for USGS, said the sy
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Feds mull approaches to stop spam
Federal employees have begun to discuss ways to stop the increasing load of spam directed at their government email boxes, but federal information technology policy groups have yet to decide what the best course would be. How the government should deal with spam surfaced this month on a federal li
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Hill slams Interior's trust fund system
Senators, trust fund experts and American Indians last week blasted an Interior Department plan to spend as much as $60 million on a new computer system to track and compensate American Indians for commercial mining on Indian property and leases of tribal land. Interior acknowledges that it has poo
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Hill, Indians slam Interior's trust fund system
Senators, trust fund experts and American Indians today blasted an Interior Department plan to spend as much as $60 million on a new computer system to improve the collection, tracking and disbursement of money from the Indian trust fund program.
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