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Gary Danoff | Another View: The future is now
Fast forward 10 years: Imagine CIOs “buying” agency service-level agreements from the prevalent IT utility of the day—the Federal IT Grid.
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DOD, DOT explore next-gen satellite systems
The departments will meet with government and commercial organizations to assess capabilities users want in the Positioning, Navigation and Timing architecture planned for 2025.
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Intergraph taps general to lead business units
It named Army Brig. Gen. Jack Pellicci senior vice president of the Security, Government and Infrastructure division and general manager of the Federal Solutions and Military and Intelligence business units.
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GEIA bullish on DOD growth
At the opening of its Vision Conference, the industry association says it expects growth in the next 10 years despite tighter budgets and declining supplemental appropriations.
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SGI emerges from Chapter 11
The company said the new SGI is the result of a massive overhaul of its global operations and new board members.
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Google hires former GSA official
M.J. Pizzella, who overseen the government's official search engine, FirstGov, had left GSA on June 30.
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GuideStar contributes technology to fed charity efforts
The firm, which specializes in researching nonprofit organizations, is offering free tools for federal employees to use as part of OPM's Combined Federal Campaign.
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Convera to help FirstGov find images
It has a product platform that makes sense of large amounts of information in multiple data formats, languages and meanings.
Acquisition
GSA to take over COMMITS, sources say
The governmentwide contract offers a broad array of IT services from 55 small and disadvantaged businesses.
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Project to track passengers in airports
A European Commission-backed program will use RFID tags to track people at airports, making it easy to alert them if they are missing at the gate at boarding time.
Digital Government
Justice task force looks into privacy
Its report recommends that agencies use the Global Justice Extensible Markup Language Data Model to help protect data.
Cybersecurity
Firewall causes storm of trouble for NWS
A firewall apparently knocked offline a college Web site that had been supplying data to Los Angeles forecasters at a National Weather Service office, officials say.
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GAITS hires Air Force general to command operations, growth
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Richard Brown joins Global Analytic Information Technology Services as chief operations officer and executive vice president.
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GAO faults FBI Sentinel staffing process
It focuses on immediate needs, not long-term, strategic goals, according to a GAO report.
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Navy awards Intelligent Decisions $2.3M upgrade contract
The small systems integrator's Product Solutions Business Group will provide workstations and peripheral equipment.
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FirstGov adds search for news, images
The two new features allow users to search data across official online sources.
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OPM offers online hiring toolkit
The online resource provides guidance and advice for hiring and keeping talented employees.
Cybersecurity
Bloggers take issue with Interior ban
A fear of information leaks led to the ban, but political bloggers are protesting it.
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STG promotes Barrass to COO
John Barrass has full responsibility for STG’s performance in business development, operations and infrastructure, the company said.
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