The Melissa Virus: Inoculating Our Information Technology from Emerging Threats : Hearing Before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, April 15, 1999, Volume 4 |
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Page 16 - NIST is to promote US economic growth by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. This mission is accomplished through four major programs: • Measurements and Standards Laboratories focused on "infrastructural technologies...
Page 16 - Commerce in 1969 as a program analyst Prior to his appointment as Deputy Director of NIST, Mr Kammer held a number of positions at NIST and in the Department of Commerce involving budgetary and program analysis, planning and personnel management During his tenure as Deputy Director, he also held positions as Acting...
Page 16 - NOAA has five major programs - the National Weather Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service; the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service; the National Ocean Service; and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research...
Page 16 - Kammer has chaired several important evaluation committees for the Department of Commerce, including reviews of satellite systems for weather monitoring and the US LANDSAT program, and of the next generation of weather radars used by the US government.
Page 1 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY, Washington, DC. The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:06 pm, in room 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 22 - ... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer...
Page 16 - Program that provides cost-shared awards to industry for development of high-risk, enabling technologies with broad economic potential; • a grassroots Manufacturing Extension Partnership with a network of local centers offering technical and business assistance to smaller manufacturers, • a highly visible organizational improvement program associated with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Kammer was Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere...
Page 4 - Schneider, if you would please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give to the Committee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God?
Page 16 - Most recently, Mr. Kammer served on an acting basis as the Chief Financial Officer, the Assistant Secretary for Administration and the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce. As Deputy Director of NIST from 1980 to 1991 and 1993 to 1997, Mr. Kammer was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Institute and for long-range planning and policy development The primary mission of...
Page 16 - LANDSAT program, and of the next generation of weather radar used by the US government. He also served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Testing and Materials, a major international society for the development of voluntary standards for materials, products, systems, and services. His awards include both the Gold and Silver Medals of the Department of Commerce, the William A. Jump Award for Exceptional Achievement in Public Administration, the Federal...