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Mobile Armor for the Navy
That's not the kind you wear. It's the kind you put on your computer to protect data at rest from bad guys.
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Services to Share the Cyber Thing
That's the bottom line on cyberspace from the <a href=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2009/QRMFinalReport_v26Jan.pdf>Quadrennial Roles and Missions Review Report</a> signed by the secretary of Defense last week. And it seems to put an end to <a href=http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=40246&printerfriendlyvers=1>Air Force hopes</a> of running the cyber show.
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SSA Tech That Works (Fast)
I turn 65 on Feb. 8 (e-cards welcome), and with some dread I went to the local Social Security Administration office here in the Original Las Vegas (as in New Mexico) to fill out my application for Medicare hospital benefits.
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Get a Life: Mixed benefit signals
Activity at the White House and on Capitol Hill is mixed on federal jobs and benefits, writes blogger Judy Welles.
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Energy agency awards supercomputer contract to IBM
The Sequoia machine is 10 times more powerful than any supercomputer in existence.
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Guidance for system reviews changed to focus more on network
Updated GAO audit manual reflects advances to IT systems and environment.
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Satisfaction with federal Web sites reaches new heights
Improved marks come as the Obama administration takes office, promising enhanced transparency.
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Webs, blogs for DISA Buys?
Last week, Lisa Schlosser, director of the <a href=http://www.epa.gov/oei/collection.htm>Office of Information Collection</a> at the Environmental Protection Agency, <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090129_7141.php">told me</a> that she thought blogs and wikis would be a good way to increase participation in the regulatory process, meeting President Obama's <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/">call for the use of technology</a> to boost openness in government.
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Pollett: Field Commanders First
Army Lt. Gen. Carroll F. Pollett, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency since last month, did not make the <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090130_2556.php>Jan. 30 AFCEA Washington gabfest</a>, but Tony Montemarano, the agency's component acquisition executive, telegraphed Pollett's priorities. Pollett, Montemarano said, has made "getting capabilities to operational commanders in the field" his first priority, a statement that gladdens my old Marine grunt-type radio operator heart.
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