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.