Software helps agencies finger network intruders
The Labor Department, Federal Bureau of Prisons and state of Oregon recently installed intrusion detection software that monitors systems enterprisewide and sends alerts in the event of external or internal breaches.
Calif. county is ready to route service to citizens
Nevada County, Calif., is ready to begin using routing software to link its Web pages to the county's databases, as part of its Citizen Relationship Management initiative.
OMB promises funds for 24 e-gov initiatives
The Office of Management and Budget has vowed to protect e-government projects'especially its spotlighted 24 initiatives'from congressional cuts.
Follow the Money
Five years after the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act, most agencies still run separate, or stovepiped, financial systems. But the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management and State Department are no longer among them.
Two e-gov leaders retire
Two senior officials dealing with the Office of Management and Budget's<br>e-government initiatives have left the government.
Fruits of Labor: e-gov portal
This story is part of an occasional series about the 24 projects of the Office of Management and Budget e-government program.
VA portal uses FAQs to guide applicants
Basil White, a webmaster at the Veterans Affairs Department's IRM Office, has his own idea of how the Labor Department should design an eligibility portal.
Forman asks for 15 percent more for IT in 2003
The administration is asking Congress for $52 billion for IT in fiscal 2003, a 15 percent increase over the fiscal 2002 budget. The request includes nearly $30 billion for 2,900 of the most significant government IT projects, said <b>Mark Forman,</b> associate director for e-government and IT at the Office of Management and Budget. The budget request will go to Congress Monday.
OPM looks for budget help on e-gov projects
The Office of Personnel Management promises it can complete its five <br>e-government initiatives within 18 to 24 months if the Office of Management and Budget can find the agency more money from this year's IT budget.
Is biometric use by feds premature?
Before government agencies buy into biometrics for security, especially facial recognition, they should resolve the policy and privacy issues, said panelists at a forum yesterday sponsored by the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank.
Tying budgets to results gains renewed emphasis
Worsening economic conditions have thrust the performance-based budgeting requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act once again into the spotlight.
VA accelerates ESSO database app
Anthony J. Principi, now secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, underwent hip replacement surgery several years ago at a VA hospital in northern California, but he couldn't get the stitches removed after he returned home to San Diego.
SSA to test state-issued digital certificates
The Social Security Administration has a pilot under way to accept online wage reports from certain states using digital certificates. In April, employers in Washington State will become the first to digitally sign and submit their online wage reports to SSA with their state-issued digital certificates.
Biometric standards could boost PKI use
A decade after the government began seeking biometric authentication products, two interoperability standards have finally taken shape: the Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF) and the Biometric Application Programming Interface (BioAPI 1.1).
Budget-makers put the focus on IT
The war on terrorism, a recession and looming deficits are shaping the 2002 and 2003 budget debates, but money for federal IT initiatives appears sacrosanct. In fact, the aftermath of Sept. 11 underscores a need for more IT spending in the next several years, the Bush administration and agency managers said.
Agencies rate higher in customer satisfaction
The federal government is showing signs of becoming more citizen-centric, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, a national indicator of consumer opinions. The IRS' electronic tax filing option, in particular, helped raise the agency's approval rating to 62 percent for last year, an 11 percent increase over 2000.
Navy training center tags coursework with XML
The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division will have the course content of its electronic classes tagged in Extensible Markup Language and moved onto the Web.
OMB: Pass the hat for e-gov funds
Congressional stinginess and the evaporation of federal surpluses have punctured hopes for windfall funding of e-government projects.
GSA will lead e-authentication project
The General Services Administration will oversee formation of a governmentwide public-key infrastructure through an electronic authentication project endorsed by the Office of Management and Budget.
Baltimore-Washington ranks among country's top five areas for certified IT professionals
The federal government's IT work force crisis reflects the entire nation's lack of certified specialists, according to the Cyber Defense IQ Report from Brainbench Inc. of Chantilly, Va.
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