In-Q-Tel buys monitoring app
In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, has negotiated a license for event detection and response software that tracks information in multiple databases
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Winter motorists grimly gripping their steering wheels as their cars careen across unplowed roads can take comfort from the thought that the federal government is working to ease their plight.
Homeland Security budget calls for IT boosts
The Bush administration's fiscal 2005 budget proposal would boost funding for the Homeland Security Department by 9.7 percent to $40.2 billion, including major bumps for several IT efforts.
Court may bare reports on Interior IT problems
The public may get a look at sanitized reports about the Interior Department's IT security problems, as a result of an order by a federal judge overseeing lengthy litigation over American Indian trust funds.<br>
New law limits offshoring of A-76 work
The catchall spending bill bars companies that win competitions to perform work done by federal employees from shifting the work to other countries.<br>
DHS launches opt-in cyber alert system
The Homeland Security Department took the wraps off a National Cyber Alert System to advise the general public and computer technicians about systems security threats.<br>
To nab terrorists, DHS will plumb trade data
To detect money laundering by terrorists, drug smugglers and other criminals, the Homeland Security Department will buy new tools to analyze trade data.<br>
DHS seeks bids to build secret network
The Homeland Security Department is soliciting vendors on the General Services Administration's Millennia contract to build and run the Homeland Secure Data Network, a network for communication across DHS.<br>
Virulent MyDoom virus skirts feds, military users
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED </font color>The W32/MyDoom virus now raging across the Internet has special code designed to prevent it from attacking federal and military users, according to Symantec Corp.<br>
Online extra: DHS setting up support systems
The Homeland Security Department is working to wean itself of IT support services provided by DHS component organizations' former parent agencies.
States to get $500 million for election reform
Congress has appropriated $500 million in the catchall spending bill for grants to states to improve voting technology.<br>
Limits ease on foreign IT buys
Congress has lifted some restrictions on agency purchases of commercial IT items from foreign companies, even as it seeks more information about such buys.<br>
State's homegrown buying system spans the globe
'The thing about a lot of those General Services Administration schedule contracts is that they don't always deliver everywhere on Earth. So when you are out in Bangui, Africa, your options may be rather limited.'
Collins wants list of 'good' schools
The government needs to create an online list of accredited colleges and universities that agencies, employees and students can use to protect themselves from diploma mill abuses, Sen. Susan Collins says.
DHS plan for consolidating back-office apps emerges
Forty general ledgers, 30 procurement systems and 20 travel systems add up to a lot of overlapping applications and code.The Homeland Security Department has a cadre of IT, administrative, financial and procurement officials developing a plan to merge these back-office systems.
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The appeal of rock music can be infectious. That's what fans of the String Cheese Incident found out last summer when the hepatitis A virus broke out following the band's June 19 concert in Telluride, Colo.
Lawmakers add Pentagon to GAO probe of diploma mill degrees
The General Accounting Office is expanding its investigation of federal employees who hold degrees from unaccredited schools to include the Defense Department.
FBI gets new acting CIO from Justice
FBI director Robert S. Mueller III has appointed Zalmai Azmi as the bureau's acting CIO. Azmi succeeds Wilson Lowery, the bureau's executive assistant director for administration, who had been acting CIO until Mueller announced Azmi's appointment Dec. 30. Azmi formerly was CIO of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in the Justice Department.<br>
Education Department may keep list of legitimate schools
The Education Department is considering creating a master list of accredited colleges and universities as a way to protect prospective students and employers from diploma mills.<br>
DHS computer operations begin to stand alone
The Homeland Security Department has largely cut its umbilical cord of IT support from the legacy agencies that for months had continued to provide services to DHS' 22 component organizations.<br>
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