New strategy details homeland IT goals
Defending against terrorism requires unprecedented information sharing across all levels of government and industry, the president's new domestic security plan says.
Interior bureau offers oil and gas data online
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service earlier this month unveiled an online ordering system that lets users research oil well and gas well data and then buy a CD-ROM of selected data.
State rolls on secret LANs
Propelled by a twelvefold funding increase, the State Department is on track to install top-secret LANs at 250 overseas locations by December of next year.
Significa
The ruins of Rome testify to the engineering capabilities of those who built it'including, one presumes, their cost estimating skills. Many software projects have been cancelled, delivered unsatisfactory results or gone over budget because of problems in estimating costs and complexity.
Benefits portal attracts new partners
The Labor Department's <a href="http://GovBenefits.gov">GovBenefits.gov</a> portal is growing by leaps and bounds.
New FBI CIO faces critics and IT revamp
Darwin A. John will take over a massive upgrade of the FBI's much-criticized IT shop as the bureau's new CIO.
Homeland bill now on a fast track
Congress is tinkering with the IT provisions in legislation to establish a Homeland Security Department, and committee staff members say the legislation could be on President Bush's desk by Sept. 11.
Interior shifts CIOs
The Interior Department has moved CIO Darryl White to the position of acting CIO of the Bureau of Reclamation. Hord Tipton, formerly CIO of the Bureau of Land Management, is now acting Interior CIO.
EPA gets grip on fee-for-service accounting
Managers at the Environmental Protection Agency's National Technology Services Division in Research Triangle Park, N.C., faced a daunting task: budgeting and accounting for about $125 million in computing services they provide to other parts of the agency annually.
Watch out Amazon, here comes MMS
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service today unveiled an online ordering system that lets users research oil well and gas well data online and buy the data on CD-ROM.
Significa
As IT matured in the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet computer science was held back by the usual culprits: opposition to Western ideas, few market incentives and secrecy. Soviet data processing specialists routinely adopted Western systems, some swiped from U.S. government research. To run the software, in 1967 they built mainframes such as the BESM-6, the Bol'shaya Ehlektronno-Schetnaya Mashina, or Big Electronic Calculating Machine.
FBI names new CIO
FBI director Robert S. Mueller III has named Darwin A. John as the bureau's new CIO. John follows Robert Dies, the agency's former CIO who retired earlier this year, and information resources manager Mark Tanner, who served as acting CIO.
Virginia auditor hits state e-procurement system
Virginia's auditor of public accounts has found that only 1.5 percent of the commonwealth's purchases so far are flowing through an electronic procurement system and that agencies must dramatically increase their use of it to finance development.
Nuclear safety agency rejects IT audit
The National Nuclear Safety Administration has rejected the recommendations of an audit that found fault with the systems it uses to track nuclear material.
EPA will buttress environment site
The Environmental Protection Agency by October plans to add data about local conditions from all 50 states to its Window to My Environment site.
Academy calls for IT research to counter terror
The National Academy of Sciences has recommended creating a Homeland Security Institute to provide scientific and technological guidance to the government for counteracting terrorism.
House OKs data-sharing bill
The Bush administration and House leaders are working to rush through Congress a bill that would require the CIA, the FBI and other federal intelligence agencies to share information with state and local police.
Significa
Signal intelligence has been important to homeland defense since the Revolutionary War.
Infrastructure needs a structure
Ronald Miller had three months to settle in at the Federal Emergency Management Agency before having to deal with the greatest disaster in American history. He took over as the agency's CIO and assistant director in June 2001, about a dozen weeks before the terrorist attacks posed one of FEMA's biggest challenges.
State CIOs will advise feds
The National Association of State CIOs will create a working group to advise the federal government on framing a national homeland security strategy.
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