Virginia disciplines 86 workers for misusing Internet
The Virginia Transportation Department last week disciplined 86 employees and contract workers for abuse and excessive use of the Internet.
Regional officials embrace e-mail, study finds
Mayors and city council members across the country routinely use e-mail to communicate with constituents, in contrast to federal elected officials who are swamped with e-mail and often dismiss it, according to a new study.
Election reform deal would send billions to states
A long-awaited compromise over election reform procedures appears to have formed in a Congressional conference committee, and $3.8 billion in federal funds for new election technology could be on its way to states.
Homeland bills lack support for innovation, report says
Homeland security legislation proposed by the Bush administration and under consideration in Congress does not do enough to support flexible procurement and technical innovation, according to a Markle Foundation report issued today.
Michigan will combine four pension plans into one system
Michigan's Office of Retirement Services has accepted delivery of the first stage of a $25.2 million public retirement system for its Office of Retirement Services, the agency said. Under the Vision ORS project, the agency will integrate four public pension plans into one system.
PTO revises its IT security ranking
The Patent and Trademark Office has downgraded its IT security readiness level in the wake of critical reports from the Commerce Department inspector general.
FTC unshells its Net safety symbol
Dewie the Turtle, an advocate of safe Internet practices, last month joined Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl among the government's menagerie of mascots.
NASA signs on more vendors to SEWP III
NASA has selected 10 additional vendors to provide products under the Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement III contract.
NASA jettisons 2nd major IT contract, again cites costs
NASA continues to look for ways to tighten its financial ship, and a second large systems contract has paid the price.
W.Va. gets the picture with inventory
West Virginia's inventory of its government property won't be only words and numbers much longer. This fall, the State Treasurer's Office will begin taking digital photographs of items recorded in its new inventory system.
EPA plans to widen public portal to environmental data
The Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up to expand its Window to My Environment portal to make more state and federal environmental data easily available to the public. As the project matures, EPA officials are beginning to extend the uses of the map-based tool to regulatory tasks as well.
By the numbers
Agency systems chiefs must not only secure their systems, they must make sure people know it. That's why surveys of the perceived status of systems security are important.
EPA forges an enterprise architecture
The Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to clean up the environment will go much more efficiently when the agency has cleaned up its management structure and policy, EPA officials have said.
Patent Office awards systems contracts
The Patent and Trademark Office today chose Signal Corp. and Project Performance Corp. for the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance 3 procurement. The two vendors will replace incumbent Northrop Grumman Corp. in design and implementation of PTO's computer infrastructure.
FTC pens Dewie the Turtle to promote Internet safety
A new symbol for safe Internet practices today joined Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl in the federal government's menagerie of mascots for public-spirited practices. The Federal Trade Commission unveiled <b>Dewie the Turtle</b>, an upbeat green cartoon, at the Privacy2002 conference in Cleveland.
Disaster portal set for soft launch tomorrow
A pared-down version the Federal Emergency Management Agency's <i>disasterhelp.gov</i> will go online tomorrow for beta testing. FEMA officials have scheduled the full rollout of the portal for late next month.
INS in holding pattern on entry app
Congress' willingness to pass appropriations bills will affect the development of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Entry Exit System, the project's chief said.
Interior's IT woes worsen; Norton found in contempt
A federal judge last week found Interior secretary Gale Norton and assistant secretary for Indian Affairs Neal McCaleb in contempt of court and faulted them for failing to fix systems that manage trust fund accounts for American Indians.
Clarke unveils security strategy
There were no surprises in last week's release of the government's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which emphasizes awareness, best practices and commonsense precautions.
NASA pulls plug on new launch system
To gain control over its finances, NASA last week scuttled a new launch control system for the space shuttle that had run over budget and fallen behind schedule.
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