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Technology limitations hamper SEC enforcement efforts
GAO reports outdated systems limit effectiveness of agency's enforcement division.
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DHS begins deploying technology component of its virtual fence
First phase of construction includes a network of 200 ground sensors and a series of towers equipped with cameras and radars on Arizona's border with Mexico.
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The Budget: A 'Scintillating' Read
The fine print and programmatic details of President Obama's proposed fiscal 2010 budget runs 1,380 pages in an appendix, with each and every page worth a perusal, OMB director Peter Orszag told a press briefing this morning.
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Future Combat Systems Minus Vehicles
As expected, the Obama administration took a budget axe to the Army Future Combat Systems program. It chopped all of the project's eight manned ground vehicles from the program for a savings of $22.9 billion, according to the <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/TRS/>Terminations, Reductions and Savings section</a> of the proposed fiscal 2010 federal budget released today.
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Veterans Affairs seeks 6 percent hike in IT spending for fiscal 2010
Large portion of increase would go to the Veterans Benefits Administration and to fund the development of a new financial management system.
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Several agencies are headed for a modest increase in IT spending
SSA, Homeland Security, USDA and others receive boosts for technology projects.
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U.S. halts pilot program in New York to detect biological attacks
The Washington Post
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Missed Buying an Enigma Machine
I like serendipity when it happens -- especially when it concerns something as odd as the current head of the National Security Agency and the German World War II encryption device known as the "<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine>Enigma Machine</a>."
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