Similarly, there has been a furore about the workings of the government information service.
Earlier in his evidence to the committee, the head of the government information service, Mike Granatt, refused to comment on the specifics surrounding the departure of Mr Sixsmith, saying his resignation was a matter for the department concerned.
The Conservatives say that Mr Blair has appointed too many political advisers, blurring the boundaries between the civil service and the ruling party, and subverting the impartiality of the government's information service.
The hearing was held by the House Government Reform Committee's Postal Service Subcommittee and its Government Management, Information and Technology Subcommittee and the Science Committee's Technology Subcommittee.
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More information is available from the government's Fallen Stock Service.
Instead, Halfaker leaned on West Point contacts to land several government contracts to bolster her information technology consulting business, which employs six service-disabled veterans.
The picture of an increasingly high-tech education was revealed in the 1999 Survey of Information and Communications Technology, which was published by the Government Statistical Service.
On Monday evening, Tehran time, hackers began using "distributed denial of service" attacks to flood Iranian government Web sites with requests for information that took the sites offline.
The service provides news, weather information and details of farming-related government policies.
Estonia in 2007, Georgia in 2008 and Kyrgyzstan in 2009 were targets of massive denial-of-service attacks organized by FAPSI, the Russian Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (the Russian national security agency) through a various proxies that gave FAPSI plausible deniability.
MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov) is creating a new service that helps Americans find the information and services they need across the Federal Government.
Using another outstanding U.S. Government Service, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is unending weather information available these days for farmers and seafarers, offshore drillers, construction workers and all the rest of us living our daily lives.
Two other helpful sites both sponsored by the Partnership for Public Service are The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, which provides information about employee job satisfaction and engagement at more than 300 agencies, and Makingthedifference.org, which describes public service jobs, including pay and duties, and advises you how to apply.
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