SSA gets a waiver to use commercial Web browser security products. HHS budget shift for date code fixes draws criticism. A Navy official says that the service's systems must be 100 percent ready for 2000. OMB adds three agencies to its year 2000 critical list. Concerns over FAA's date code readiness drive GAO to let work continue under DOT's disputed Volpe contract.
Congressional leaders get the skinny on the state of systems security from a group of hackers.
Online visitors flock daily to NIH 's PubMed database. Treasury honors 12 department employees for their systems work. Some agencies use cold, hard cash to entice year 2000 programmers to stay in the public sector. The government's optimism over its date code progress worries an industry leader. Federal telecom chiefs show interest in Sprint's new packet-switched network .