EDITORIAL
Surprise! Rep. Steve Horn's House Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations has given agencies an F for computer security [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/21_5/news/18094-1.html">GCN, March 4, Page 9</a>].
AT&T snares new search engine contract for FirstGov
Don't like the results you get on the <a href="http://FirstGov.gov">FirstGov.gov</a> search engine? Well, wait until April 1.
HP CTO: Government and industry should work together on security
What keeps an academic such as the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. up at night? For one thing, the thought of the government building, in the name of security, its own network infrastructure.
Software exec praises government backup efforts
Which sector is better prepared for systems disaster recovery, government or commercial? In the opinion of one software executive, it's government.
ODIN chief leaves NASA for systems security post at NSA
Mark Hagerty, a longtime NASA outsourcing executive, has left the space agency to join the National Security Agency.
What's an expensive camera worth to you?
Why should you spend more than $5,000 for a digital camera body? In a word, flexibility.
EDITORIAL
Occasionally I have to give the family greyhound a pill. Rather than sticking it down his gullet and having him spit it out, I encase it in tasty cheese, hoping he won't notice. But sometimes he catches on, and I find a sticky pill lying discarded somewhere in the kitchen.
Security expert's one word of advice: basics
In the film 'The Graduate,' Mr. McGuire's one word of advice is 'plastics.' Ira Winkler's one word for government systems managers is 'basics.'
EPA maneuvers to win infrastructure money
Can a picture of a diseased lung open funding streams for IT? It did for the Environmental Protection Agency.
EDITORIAL
Commercial computers date back to just after World War II. Yet job titles such as chief technology officer and CIO have only recently entered the management vocabulary.
EDITORIAL
The General Services Administration is closing in on selection of a new search engine vendor for the FirstGov Web site.
Navy tests telemaintenance for cruise missiles
It can cost a bundle and take days for technicians to fly out to an aircraft carrier group, make their way to a designated ship and help with maintenance and repair of a Tomahawk cruise missile launching system.
EDITORIAL
Shortly after Thanksgiving, an Asian elephant at the National Zoo in Washington gave birth. The calf weighed 325 pounds and looked tiny next to its mother. Yet when looking at the mother elephant, I still found it astonishing she could deliver a living being weighing so much.
EDITORIAL
It hasn't taken long for the whispered doubts about the Office of Management and Budget's e-government initiative to set in. At cocktail parties and luncheons throughout the recent holiday season, you could hear the growing buzz of skepticism about whether OMB will pull it off.
State will pilot a worldwide intranet
The State Department in February will award a contract for building a pilot version of what will eventually become an online work environment for nine agencies worldwide.
EDITORIAL
Just as the war against terrorism has thrown together some unlikely countries as allies, so has it thrown together state and federal governments, two groups often at odds.
Sandia systems march in step
Software designed to help nuclear reactor operators comply with federal reporting rules is keeping systems identically configured at one Energy Department laboratory.
EDITORIAL
With this editorial, I mark 10 years as editor of Government Computer News, about half of the paper's existence. I hope to stick with it a while longer.
NMCI rolling out, ready for testing
LAS VEGAS'The Navy last week switched the first 650 computers from its existing network to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
EDITORIAL
When gun control first became a national issue, I remember seeing a bumper sticker that read, 'If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.' Neanderthal as it might make me seem, I find a certain truth in that statement.
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