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Missouri to build interface for Real ID
The Homeland Security Department will pay Missouri $17 million to develop the "verification hub" that states will use to verify documents presented in the Real ID application process.
People
House passes homeland security measures
The House has passed a bill that would require the Homeland Security Department to bolster its redress process for travelers who feel they have been misidentified as being on the government's no-fly list.
People
GAO: Senior privacy officials need authority
Some agencies do not give their senior privacy officials responsibility for all key privacy functions, so privacy protections may be applied inconsistently, the Government Accountability Office reports.
People
State Department will get SMART
State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset system will combine diplomatic text cables, e-mail, and memos in a single messaging system for classified and unclassified networks.
People
State’s new CIO defines her role
Susan Swart says she will be successful if she can help agency diplomats fulfill their mission.
People
Pointers: Recommended reading
Good reads to share: DOD joins the blogosophere,Learning the Web, Words to live by and Beware of Facebook apps.
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GSA leadership shuffle dominates water-cooler talk
It seems likely that the General Services Administration will soon have a new leader.
People
Employee shortages hit Protective Service
The Federal Protective Service has reduced some security measures at government buildings because of a 20 percent cut in staff levels since fiscal 2004.
People
OFPP offers new guidelines to improve interagency contracting
Some say OFPP’s new policy guidance might be too little, too late to offer effective oversight.
Modernization
BBN field tests portable translator
BBN Technologies has developed a translation device that enables a two-way dialogue between speakers of different languages.
Modernization
A new life for talk-to-text?
Efforts of speech-recognition developers could pay off as a smart application for smart phones.
People
Editorial: Defending CIO bloggers
The role of the CIO is to stay ahead of the train and guide the track.
People
Meagher: Information security has few friends at the top
Security requires having an agency’s senior executive team say it will happen, Interior's deputy CIO says.
Digital Government
Security pieces come together
Deadlines for several federal cybersecurity initiatives are coming due this summer.
People
Telework: Good policy, better practice
The more managers can test the continuity-of-operations plans in nonemergency situations, the better the organization will handle the real emergencies.
Digital Government
Defense plans to withdraw Hight's nomination to head DISA
Department declines to identify other candidates for head of its top information and telecommunications agency.
Digital Government