Callahan resigns from Homeland Security Department
Laura Callahan, former senior director in the Homeland Security Department's CIO office, resigned from the department today. Callahan had been on administrative leave with pay since last June, after a GCN investigation revealed that she had three questionable degrees from a diploma mill in Wyoming.
Appeals court restores some Interior Internet links
The Interior Department has restored most of nine agencies' Internet links.<br>
Homeland Security IG puts focus on department's IT woes
The Homeland Security Department faces hurdles in improving its systems, the DHS inspector general said. <br>
Judge again orders Interior to take systems offline
Efforts over the past 28 months by Interior Department systems professionals to fortify the department's IT security have failed to satisfy a federal judge, who ordered Interior to disconnect nine agencies from the Internet.
Hill to DHS: Fix border databases
A senior lawmaker this month demanded that the Homeland Security Department speed integration of criminal and immigration databases so Border Patrol agents can nab felons trying to sneak into the country.
1,500 jobs up for grabs at Energy, NASA
The Energy Department and NASA are honing plans to conduct competitions under OMB Circular A-76 that will pit vendor teams against groups of federal employees for major IT tasks. About 1,500 federal jobs are at stake.
Auditors: DHS should track consolidation savings
The General Accounting Office has urged the Homeland Security Department's CIO to break out the savings from consolidating component agencies' systems by cause, source and time period.<br>
DHS cybercrime investigators to get counseling
The Homeland Security Department plans to provide psychological counseling to cybercrime investigators who are constantly exposed to graphic images of child pornography and exploitation.<br>
DHS tactical network begins nationwide use
The Homeland Security Department's new tactical response network will 'receive and share tactical information, and quickly piece together the puzzle and see if an incident poses a threat,' DHS secretary Tom Ridge says.
Data-sharing projects begin to gel
As agencies sort out the homeland security and defense tasks they must perform, two integration centers are making progress sharing counterterrorism information among many organizations.
OMB task groups will analyze HR and financial IT
ORLANDO, Fla.'The Office of Management and Budget has formed two task groups to study ways for the government to consolidate human resources and financial systems.
GSA establishes team to improve Web site design
ORLANDO, Fla.'The General Services Administration has kicked off a usability training project to improve government Web design practices.The agency formed the Usability Solutions Group in the Office of Governmentwide Policy, said Rosemary A. Gibert, a member of the new office, which has three staff members but will expand to 10 employees and add contract staff.
Justice set to award network contracts soon
ORLANDO, Fla.'The Justice Department plans to award a pair of contracts for its Justice Unified Telecommunications Network project in the next six weeks.
DHS slammed on database merger
The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee cited an assault by a deported felon in denouncing the administration's failure to provide FBI fingerprint data to the Border Patrol.<br>
TSA seeks weapons imaging devices
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration plans to buy hundreds of machines that can detect concealed weapons carried by people entering airports.
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Spam: Can't live with it, can't completely choke it off. Legal efforts to stem the flow of bandwidth-gobbling junk e-mail proceed slowly. But the Federal Trade Commission and 36 agencies in 26 countries are working to stem the flow of spam. Operation Secure Your Server is an international effort to close open relays and open proxies that provide gateways for spam. Open relays and open proxies are servers that allow any computer in the world to bounce or route e-mail through the servers of other organizations, thereby disguising the real origin of the e-mail. Spammers often use these servers to flood the Internet with unwanted e-mail and potentially damage unwitting organizations' reputations if it appears that they sent the spam.
Education to list accredited schools online
Education Department secretary Rod Paige said the department is preparing to post an online list of accredited higher-education institutions.<br>
Homeland Security rolls out tactical response network
The Homeland Security Department today took the wraps off the Homeland Security Information Network, an upgraded version of the Joint Regional Information Exchange System pilot.<br>
DHS will launch emergency net and security-tracking database
The Homeland Security Department this year plans to roll out a unified national emergency information network and a critical infrastructure database.<br>
OPM plans new fake-degree seminars
The Office of Personnel Management plans to sponsor additional seminars next month in Washington to help federal personnel managers detect bogus degrees claimed by job applicants.<br>
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