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Federal e-government efforts lagging, officials say

May 23, 2000 As the federal government moves toward increasingly paperless operations, it must do a better job keeping up with the private sector, both in Web site design and employee compensation, industry and government representatives said Monday. George Molaski, the Transportation Department's chief information officer, told House lawmakers that the government needs ...

Agencies must 'leap' one more Y2K hurdle

February 25, 2000 Y2K czar John Koskinen said Thursday that the leap year rollover may only cause minor headaches, a disappointment for doomsayers who predicted Feb. 29 as one of the last chances for technological disaster brought on by the 2000 date change. "We do not expect any significant problems," Koskinen said. Leap ...

Agencies are 99.9 percent ready for year 2000

December 15, 1999 With just over two weeks left before the year 2000, the federal government scored near perfect on its Y2K preparedness, an Office of Management and Budget report released Tuesday said. OMB reported that 99.9 percent of the government's mission critical systems are prepared to pre-empt any problems that could be ...

FBI demonstrates Y2K readiness

November 5, 1999 Never fear America, the FBI will still be able to arrest criminals after December 31-and their cell doors won't swing open when Y2K rolls around, either, the Justice Department said Thursday. The FBI ran a simulation for the media claiming that its National Crime Information Center computer systems will be ...

State Department issues no Y2K travel warnings

September 15, 1999 After months of data gathering and a three-month international review period, the U.S. State Department issued not a single Y2K-related travel warning to U.S. citizens on Tuesday. While the State Department made much-anticipated updates to its consular information sheets to include country-specific Y2K information, the agency assiduously avoided making any ...