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Intelligent Decisions to resell Netscape products, services
Intelligent Decisions announced today it would begin reselling Netscape Communications Corp. products and consulting services to the federal government via the General Services Administration schedule.
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NSA chooses an alternate to Fortezza card
The Federal Reserve will spend about $100 million to fix its computer systems for the Year 2000, a Federal Reserve official told Congress today.
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Defense site keeps pace on IT industry fast track
For those government technology users who like to stay on the cutting edge of an industry that moves seemingly at the speed of light, point your browser to the Defense Department's Technology Navigator at www.dtic.mil/technav. This World Wide Web site recently began offering several new features si
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NARA wants agencies to buy records systems
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to recommend that agencies buy electronic recordkeeping systems as part of a new policy detailing how the government should maintain digital documents. Michael Miller, director of the Modern Records Management Program at NARA, said officials de
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Pentagon denies hackers penetrated secret nets
Despite recent claims by an international hacking group that it accessed and obtained classified information from a Defense Department network, DOD officials last week strongly denied that the group penetrated classified networks or obtained classified information. A group calling itself Masters of
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Report finds Y2K problems pull CIOs from procurement reform efforts
Federal chief information officers are finding that the Year 2000 crisis coupled with a shrinking work force trying to handle rapidly advancing technology challenges may be hampering their efforts to meet recent procurement reform legislation requirements, according to a report released today.
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DOE tests tool to speed priority Internet traffic
After more than a decade of research, the Energy Department this month successfully tested a technology that could allow Internet users especially federal researchers to speed delivery of highpriority traffic by bypassing the massive congestion endemic to the public network. During the test, r
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Brio gets rich return in fed market
Just one year after Brio Technology began targeting the federal government market with its data warehousing tools, the vendor has garnered about 50,000 federal users covering more than 100 sites. Among the Palo Alto, Calif.based company's customers are the departments of Agriculture and the Interi
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NASA delays satellite launch after finding bugs in software program
NASA has discovered a software performance problem that has delayed for at least eight months the launch of a satellite that is central to an agency program for collecting and analyzing the interdependence of Earth's ecosystems. The satellite and the Flight Operations Segment (FOS) software running
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Retirement option would need IT
A CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSAL TO RESCUE THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM BY PERMITTING WORKERS TO INVEST PART OF THEIR PAYROLL TAXES IN PRIVATE RETIREMENT PLANS MAY SAVE THE BENEFITS PROGRAM, BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TO INVEST HEAVILY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS TO TRACK
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Nonprofit group says NSA report shows weaknesses of key recovery
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is expected to issue its response tomorrow to a National Security Agency (NSA) report that documents the potential risks posed by the encryption technology that has been at the center of a raging debate between the Clinton administration and industry.
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Silanis captures new federal customers
Silanis Technology Inc. has landed several recent federal government clients with its software product that is designed to eliminate paper by digitally capturing handwritten signatures and securing those signatures using authentication technology. ApproveIT is designed to enable users to electronic
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Lost in space? Click here to find Mars
For space junkies still mourning the loss of communications six months ago from the rover on the Mars Pathfinder mission, take heart and point your browser to the Mars Global Surveyor home page at mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/index.html. Here you can take a peek at the newest images from the Red Planet. N
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DOD adopts COTS wares to protect supercomputers
The Defense Department's highperformance computing program office is finalizing plans for a security policy using commercial hardware and software security products to control access of more than 4,000 users of supercomputers nationwide. The DOD HighPerformance Computing Modernization Program (HP
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Review tests NASA's security
The National Security Agency, the supersecret agency known for its computer security expertise, soon will begin trying to penetrate NASA's missioncritical systems as part of a comprehensive security review by the General Accounting Office of agencies' key computer systems. Jack Brock, GAO director
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Fastlane steers AF base network traffic analysis
Fastlane Software Systems Inc. has landed the first purchase order for its Xni network traffic analysis and security software tool, through a contract with the 15th Communications Squadron at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. Xni is designed to provide a graphical view of network usage and traffic
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NSA report details risks of key-recovery technology
The National Security Agency has prepared a report that may be the first federal government documentation of the potential risks posed by the encryption technology that has been at the center of a raging debate between the Clinton administration and industry. The report details the potential threat
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The Whole Wired World
It's hard to overstate the impact of the Internet on American life. In the past four years, the Internet has become as significant a technology as the telephone, the TV or the personal computer. Originally designed to help defend the country from foreign attack, this network of networks is so much
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Security Dynamics Technologies to acquire Intrusion Detection Inc.
Security Dynamics Technologies Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Intrusion Detection Inc. in a deal valued at $32.5 million.
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Cyberattacks spur new warning system
The Defense Department has created a new alert system to rate the level of threats to its information systems that mirrors the wellknown Defense Conditions (DEFCONs) ratings that mark the overall military status in response to traditional foreign threats. The new Information Conditions, or 'INFOCO
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