U.S. Government Resources: Communications

Broadband (Highspeed) Internet Service
http://www.fcc.gov/broadband

The FCC's strategic goal for Broadband is to establish regulatory policies that promote competition, innovation, and investment in broadband services and facilities while monitoring progress toward the deployment of broadband services in the United States and abroad. The technology includes integrated access to voice, high-speed data, video-on-demand, and interactive delivery services.

Cell Phone Facts
http://www.fda.gov/cellphones/

This site from the Food and Drug Administration offers consumer information on wireless phones.

Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC)
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/index.html

The CIAC uses cyber security expertise to prevent, detect, and recover from cyber incidents for the Department of Energy and other national stakeholders.

Computer Security Resource Center
http://csrc.nist.gov

Computer Security Resource Center, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, works to improve information systems security by researching, developing, and managing IT-related areas for the federal community. This web site provides links to various information dealing with computer security issues.

Cybercrime.gov
http://www.cybercrime.gov/

Cybercrime.gov is maintained by the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division. The site provides cases, policies, reports, and other documents related to cybercrime and intellectual property.

Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.

Federal Computer Incident Response Center
http://www.cirt.doc.gov/

The Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC) is the federal civilian government's trusted focal point for computer security incident reporting, providing assistance with incident prevention and response. Effective March 1, 2003, the FedCIRC officially became part of the Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) Directorate.

Hoaxbusters
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

As part of the Department of Energy, the CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) offers this web site that lists and describes hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, how to recognize hoaxes, and what to do about them.

Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB)
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/ispab/index.html

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB), formerly known as the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board, was created by the Computer Security Act of 1987. The ISPAB seeks to identify emerging managerial, technical, administrative, and physical safeguard issues relative to information security and privacy.

Internet Crime Complaint Center
http://www.ic3.gov/

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at all levels, IFCC offers a central repository for complaints related to Internet fraud, works to quantify fraud patterns, and provides timely statistical data of current fraud trends.

National Communications System
http://www.ncs.gov/

Formerly under the Department of Defense, on March 1, 2003, the NCS transferred to the newly established Department of Homeland Security. This single unified system, organized of 23 Federal departments and agencies, serves the critical need for reliable and interoperable telecommunications for the federal government in times of national emergencies.

National Do Not Call Registry
http://www.donotcall.gov/

To reduce the number of telemarketing calls consumers receive, they can register their home and mobile phone numbers for free.

National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)
http://niap.nist.gov

NIAP is a collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) designed to fulfill the requirements of the Computer Security Act of 1987. NIAP works to meet the security testing needs of both information technology (IT) consumers and producers through research, development, and evaluation of IT products and systems.

National Security Agency
http://www.nsa.gov/

The NSA directs and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

As an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA works to improve the quality of telecommunications products and services through the development of innovative technologies.

Regulation of High-Speed Internet Service
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/highspeedaccessnoi/

On March 14, 2002, the FCC adopted another major rulemaking, part of a series of actions, designed to promote widespread deployment of broadband services. The FCC settled a debate over the regulatory classification of cable modem service and launched a proceeding to examine the proper regulatory treatment of this service. Links related to this proceeding are provided at this site.

US-CERT
http://www.us-cert.gov/

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector, is responsible for protecting the nation's Internet infrastructure by defending against and responding to cyber incidents and attacks across the nation.

U.S. Government Telephone and E-mail Directories
http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Directories.shtml

Links are provided to the federal community through this FirstGov directories site.