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New tech builds mobile virtual private networks
A small startup company in Northern Virginia is targeting the federal market with an application that enables organizations to create 'virtual' networks to connect mobile workers spread out over a geographic region. Ecutel LLC's product, called Viatores, allows users to work securely on mobile com
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DNA database initiative raises privacy fears
The FBI last week unveiled a system that will let state and local criminal investigators share DNA information to solve crimes, but some observers fear that the information is open to abuse. The new system, called the National DNA Index System (NDIS), will tap into existing DNA databases maintained
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NIMA digital chart to set sail with Navy
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is preparing a database that could replace the paper charts sailors use to navigate, although some seamen have concerns about the accuracy of NIMA's new digital chart. NIMA officials hope to make the Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) available to about 600 Navy ve
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FY '99 IT budgets set in White House/Hill deal
Congressional leaders and the White House agreed late last week on a budget deal that will provide funding for major information technology initiatives. The budget deal has been delayed for weeks as Congress wrestled over issues such as whether to use statistical sampling for the 2000 census and ho
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Hill demands feds defend IT spending
In many of the fiscal 1999 appropriations bills Congress still hopes to pass before it adjourns Oct. 9, legislators tied funding to performance and have pushed agencies for detailed plans on information technology projects under development before any more money is distributed. Eben Townes, senior
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Starr report prompts call for more Web info
As Americans continue to log onto legislative World Wide Web sites that carry Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton, an activist group has reasserted its call for Congress to put more legislative information on the Web. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader's Congressional Account
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DOD reels in content on Web sites
Concerned about the security risks posed by the availability of some types of information on the World Wide Web, the Defense Department has begun to pull pages from its Web sites while top DOD officials carry out a department-wide review.
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Feds vary Starr report packaging
Looking to avoid overwhelming traffic at any one federal World Wide Web site, more than half a dozen government offices have posted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton. But not all the federal sites on Starr's report to Congress are the same, with agencies taking a variety of approaches to packaging the information and offering a variety of add-ons.
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Feds brace Web sites for Starr report traffic
Federal computer specialists last week struggled to prepare World Wide Web sites to manage an onslaught from the public trying to access the hottest document in Internet history Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress on President Clinton. Hours before the expected release of the 4
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EPA enhances Envirofacts' mapping
The Environmental Protection Agency last month unveiled an enhanced World Wide Web site that will provide citizens with better information on potential environmental hazards in their neighborhoods and will help agencies build their own electronic maps. The site, the EPA's Envirofacts Warehouse (www
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Dell teams with ESRI for PC/GIS bundle
Seeing a growing interest in desktop mapping in the federal market, Dell Computer Corp. this month began offering federal customers a package that includes a Dell PC workstation and software from Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. The package bundles Dell's 410 or 610 Precision WorkStati
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Interagency project measures impact of Hurricane Bonnie
Three federal agencies are collaborating on a coastline mapping project used this month to help determine Hurricane Bonnie's impact on North Carolina's dunes and other coastal structures. NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey have teamed up to col
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NASA veteran lands on Hill
Unlike many of the attorneys and analysts who work on the staffs of congressional oversight committees, Delores Moorehead brings years of federal agency experience to her job at the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. Moorehead, the committee's special assistant for information management and tec
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FBI Promotes LEO, an AOL-like Resource for Police Officers
FBI Promotes LEO, an AOL-like Resource for Police Officers
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INS cancels IV&V portion of IS development program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has canceled a key portion of a huge program for continuing the development of the agency's information systems including systems border agents use to verify aliens' identities and systems INS workers use to process information on citizenship candidates.
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White House: Y2K needs $3B+
Armed with a recent report showing that costs for fixing the Year 2000 computer problem continue to increase, the Clinton administration last week sent Congress a request for $3.25 billion in emergency funding for agencies to fix their computers before the millennium. In his request for more Year 2
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Bay unveils wireless products
Following its recent acquisition of NetWave Technologies Inc., Bay Networks Inc. late last month introduced a line of wireless data products that gives the company an entree to new federal customers. The new Bay products are sophisticated radio transmitters called access points and cards that pl
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FBI pushes national intranet
The FBI is trying to increase awareness of a system to aid law enforcement officials nationwide, but technology problems at some small police departments could stymie access to the system. The Law Enforcement Online (LEO) system is an intranet that the FBI has been building since 1995 with the help
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Compaq enters fingerprint ID market
Compaq Computer Corp. this month entered the fingerprint identification market, releasing a combination hardware/software product for verifying the identity of someone attempting to access a computer network. Using a fingerprint reader by Identicator Technology, San Bruno, Calif., Compaq software s
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Litton/PRC tapped for med records pact
The Defense Department's Health Affairs branch intends to award Litton/PRC Inc. a task order potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a framework for the electronic sharing of patient records that may set the national standard for public and private health care facilities, FCW h
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