Digital Government
What is broadband?
This spring, the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service gave Pegasus Rural Broadband, a subsidiary of Pegasus Communications Inc.
People
DISA selects e-records file management standard
DISA has selected software that uses an Internet open standard for document and file management that supports e-records
People
A crisis for Web preservation
Fugitive documents published on the Web are not being preserved
Digital Government
Crawling for content
Government Printing Office officials are investigating the use of Web-crawler and data-mining technologies to capture government information published on the Web.
Cybersecurity
Putnam, Davis, propose Clinger-Cohen amendment
The House chairmen say their bill would strengthen federal IT security.
Cybersecurity
Security officials play nice
They have no choice, since they can't force network users to plug holes.
Modernization
USPS to pay $25M for network
Government Telecommunications Inc. won the deal to upgrade the network for 108 mail-processing plants.
People
Tax agency cutting jobs
Many positions no longer needed, officials say, but unions plan to fight
People
Four universities to test preservation handling
Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Old Dominion will be partners in a test of procedures for handling large digital collections slated for preservation.
People
USDA to transfer service center workers to central IT
Agency will shift former field office employees to USDA's central IT group.
Modernization
DHS Issues Oracle Warning
Officials used the National Cyber Alert System to warn about database vulnerabilities
People
IRS seeks top talent
The tax agency hired an executive search firm to find experienced managers for those troubled modernization programs.
Digital Government
Rosen praises CAPPS II
But the law expert fears that other systems won't balance safety and privacy as well.
Modernization
AT&T urges intrusion prevention
Blocking worms and attacks beats patching, AT&T's chief security officer says.
Cybersecurity
NIST keeps publishing
NIST has to finish a report on recommended security controls by December 2005.
Digital Government
Return to patch central?
GAO report recommends revival of federal patch management service
Cybersecurity
OMB tweaks info security rules
Agencies will have to vouch for systems' conformity to minimum-security standards.
Cybersecurity
Back to central patching?
OMB agrees with auditors' suggestion to reconsider a central patch-management service.
People
IRS cuts tech jobs
The tax agency's CIO expects to "free up" roughly 150 jobs at computing centers, and cut positions in other areas as well.
People
Architecture helps ATF reorg
ATF's deputy CIO says her bureau finishes most of its IT projects on time and within budget.
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