NASA team combs data for clues to Columbia disaster
NASA began marshaling information in a central database and using models to help it analyze the Columbia space shuttle disaster within hours of the accident.
Ridge, German minister discuss border technologies
Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, in his first meeting as a cabinet secretary with a foreign leader, yesterday morning met with German Interior minister Otto Schily to discuss border security technologies.
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How's your health? The National Center for Health Statistics, thinking citizens would want to know, has spent three years building an online database of public health indicators, under the rubric of the Healthy People 2010 project.
FBI pins down records management
In response to criticism of the FBI's management of evidence, the bureau has launched a massive records management project to overhaul the way millions of paper records are handled at headquarters, at 56 field offices, and by legal attaches around the world.
Homeland request marbled with IT spending
The Homeland Security Department's fiscal 2004 budget proposal contains IT spending increases for projects begun at its component agencies salted throughout the $36.2 billion spending request.<br>
NASA will create central repository of Columbia data
NASA is amassing data that will help it analyze the cause of Saturday's space shuttle disaster, senior agency officials said today.<br>
'Ratty' data from Columbia during final moments key in probe, NASA says
Fragmentary telemetry data sent from the space shuttle Columbia to ground-based NASA systems could be critical in reconstructing the doomed vehicle's status in its final seconds of flight, program director Ron Dittemore said yesterday. <br>
FBI activates Trilogy network
The FBI is deploying the WAN that will support its Trilogy classified case management system.<br>
Administration to seek $36.2 billion for homeland department
The Homeland Security Department budget request for fiscal 2004 will be $36.2 billion. The department also announced a reorganization of its border security agencies.<br>
INS extends deadline for student tracking system
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has extended the mandatory date for schools to use its new foreign student tracking system to Feb. 15.<br>
Homeland IT added to GAO's high-risk list
The Homeland Security Department and its IT operations are new areas of high risk for failure, the General Accounting Office and lawmakers said this morning.<br>
INS awards contract for Homeland Security transition support
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has issued a $2.6 million task order to PEC Solutions Inc. to assist the agency's move to the Homeland Security Department. <br>
HSD site switches to Linux
The Homeland Security Department last weekend switched its Web site over to Oracle software running under Linux, according to Web consulting company Netcraft. <br>
Homeland Security acts to shield its data
The Homeland Security Department today issued three regulations to prevent release of information it deems sensitive. <br>
HSD starts life with soundbites
The Homeland Security Department came to life today with a White House swearing-in ceremony for secretary Tom Ridge and announcements about the information systems backbone.<br>
HSD launches e-mail system and Web site
The Homeland Security Department has an e-mail system to connect its employees scattered across almost two dozen agencies, as well as a Web portal, at <i>www.dhs.gov</i>. <br>
Ridge promises data sharing will be department's top priority
Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge this month pledged to coordinate the government's immigration and law enforcement databases.
System revamp grounds NASA travel payments
It's a good thing astronauts don't file for mileage expenses while in space. If they did, some wouldn't be able to submit expenses for reimbursement until March 10.
State scraps pilot for international communications
The State Department recently decided to end a knowledge management pilot that the department's inspector general said was poorly planned and implemented.
Texas auditors urge systems consolidation
Texas state auditors today issued a report citing information resources and technology management as a major risk area and recommended that the state create a plan to consolidate IT projects.
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