Technological curve didn't affect their project pitch

When managers who advocated linking the FBI's Law Enforcement Online with five other networks went looking for support, they prepared their case in the usual way'in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with a notebook PC and projector ready to deliver it.

All-points bulletins: FBI and Justice link, get the word out

The FBI and Justice Department have supercharged law enforcement communications by weaving together disparate networks and creating technology to push alerts to officers nationwide.

Faulty databases hobble program evaluation

Congress should hold off making a simplified acquisition test program permanent until agencies provide reliable data about it, the General Accounting Office said. <br>

FBI probes bogus bureau site used in scam

The FBI yesterday launched an investigation of a Web site, since removed from the Internet, that masqueraded as a federal bureau site and sought to lure consumers to submit private financial information.<br>

Homeland Security narrows U.S. Visit bidders to three

The Homeland Security Department has chosen three companies to compete for the systems integration contract for its U.S. VISIT system.<br>

Worm stops State's intranet for nine hours

The State Department experienced a nine-hour outage of its unclassified intranet, known as OpenNet Plus, because of an infection by the Welchia worm.

FBI takes on systems security demons

If the FBI is to meet the challenge of becoming a counterintelligence hub for homeland defense'a mission spawned by the Bush administration's war on terrorism and a string of reputation-shattering spy cases'the bureau must revamp its systems to assure data is accessible but not easily misused.

Congress shrinks DHS CIO's purse, other IT programs

Lawmakers increased Homeland Security Department funding by $1 billion over the administration's request, but reduced the budget of the homeland security CIO and reduced spending for some major IT programs. <br>

EPA teams focus on efforts to improve data handling

With the deadline for the Government Paperwork Elimination Act looming next month, the Environmental Protection Agency has governmentwide efforts under way to help it meet the mandate of making all transactions electronic.

Homeland IT staff supports agencies in first response to Isabel

As Hurricane Isabel bore down on the nation's capital last week, the Homeland Security Department's IT officials were preparing to keep emergency communications systems live.<br>

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The Army has changed many people's lives, often for the better. One such individual, John Backus, is a former University of Virginia chemistry student who was expelled for nonattendance. While serving as a corporal in an antiaircraft battery at Fort Stewart, Ga., in 1943, the 19-year-old Backus took an Army aptitude test, the results of which prompted the service to send him to a pre-engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh.

State will extend passport deadline for some countries

The State Department has given countries whose citizens cross the borders without visas the opportunity to delay a deadline to furnish travelers with machine-readable passports.<br>

Database gaps make ID fraud easier, GAO says

Wide-ranging weaknesses in government agencies' ability to prevent identity fraud are made worse by flawed databases used to check identification documents, according to federal investigators.<br>

Homeland research agency gets its first director

David Bolka, a scientist, technology manager and Navy veteran, has been named to be the first director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.<br>

Minnesota teen arrested in MSBlaster Case

<font color="CC000"> UPDATED </font>Federal authorities today arrested an 18-year-old Minnesota man in connection with the MSBlaster worm case.<br>

The war on worms inches forward

As agencies sopped up the mess from recent rolling worm attacks, the FBI asked for help from the public in tracking down the creators of the virus-bearing bugs.

IT changes will boost shuttle safety, panel says

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board last week recommended management changes and technical fixes to overhaul NASA's culture and shuttle systems. The board has been evaluating the deadly Feb. 1 accident for seven months and tracked down dozens of organizational and technical factors that led to the disaster.

Auditors rap management of New York's intranet

New York's State Office for Technology has bungled implementation of a $42 million program to link the state's offices via an intranet, according to a new audit.<br>

DHS to revamp former INS buying shops

The Homeland Security Department will reorganize the contracting shops that formerly were part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Homeland Security forges a systems cadre

After six months, the IT staff at the Homeland Security Department remains mostly an amalgamation of the systems shops cobbled together from the 22 agencies that make up DHS.

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