People

Education pushes grants online

A new regulation will make the Internet the Education Department's preferred means for receiving grant applications.

Cybersecurity

NIST helps on security budgets

NIST Special Publication 800-65 presents seven steps to ensure that IT budget requests comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002.

Cybersecurity

Two more from NIST

A pair of new publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide technical help for government agencies and businesses that are required to protect information systems.

People

SSA expects IT to help decisions

Social Security Administration officials say technology projects will go a long way to solve decision-making problems cited in a new report from the General Accounting Office.

Digital Government

Online chats: Talk of the town

Government turns to e-talk to connect with citizens.

Digital Government

Using technology to protect privacy

Data mining raises fears about the loss of privacy.

Digital Government

Where oh where does all the data go?

GAO study provides Congress with a look at info that agencies collect.

Cybersecurity

Lieberman rips DHS wireless

The Democratic senator and frequent critic of the administration's homeland security policy blasts DHS about its wireless security holes.

People

Tech changes GPO

The Government Printing Office is re-examining its mission, a new report says.

Acquisition

Treasury to get info-sharing system

EDS will get $18.5 million to create a data warehouse for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

People

Library of Congress tools benefit online

Web versions will become the standard for the agency's cataloguing tools, a staffer says.

People

House staffer defends e-gov funding

Robert Dix accused Congressional appropriators of being shortsighted.

Cybersecurity

NIST aims to ease XP security setup

The draft of SP 800-68 has recommendations and checklists for Windows XP security.

Cybersecurity

Malicious server halted

A Russian site that had been downloading code to steal information from users has apparently been shut down.

Digital Government

USDA ushers out paper food stamps

Last week, Agriculture Department officials completed a 20-year effort to switch all 50 states to an electronic process for managing the $25 billion benefits program.

People

Grants available for preservation R&D

Feds are offering $2.3 million in research grants for managing and preserving digital information.

Acquisition

Bids sought for $3B Treasury program

As many as 10 individual contracts could be awarded under the Total Information Processing Support Services-3 program.

People

USDA gushes over electronic food stamps

Agriculture Department officials gathered in Washington, D.C., today to bid farewell to the paper system.

Cybersecurity

Putnam: Clinger-Cohen needs a cybersecurity boost

Proposed amendment would make security an essential part of IT buys

Modernization

Broadband goes rural

Companies use loans to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to rural areas