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Rising Star Joseph Arthur Rhodes
Rhodes planned and coordinated the construction of a facility at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to support the deployment of the Movement Tracking System, which tracks the location of logistic vehicles and their content.
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Rising Star Genen Soo-Hoo
Soo-Hoo gave a new face to NYPD's Crime Stopper program by developing a multimedia-enabled "Submit a Tip" Web site.
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Rising Star John Collier
Collier designed and developed an advanced multi-intelligence analyst system. He came up with a design that could fit on a couple of laptops or be scaled to a system that involves hundreds of systems.
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Recommended Reading: Michael Jackson, botnets and digital democracy
The 12 holy sites of IT; Measuring emotion in cyberspace; A toolkit for retooling democracy; Botnets: Be scared, very scared
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DOD health records project hinges on security
Electronic records could lead to a faster, more flexible and more cost-effective system.
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Exploding the data storage myth
People who say we should save everything because data storage is cheap are talking nonsense.
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Mobile data poses security risk
Multiple types of removable media and devices hold sensitive government information, and each presents its own security risks.
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Former EPA IT official O'Neill lands job at CGI
Molly O'Neill, a chief information officer in an office in the Environmental Protection Agency, has accepted a job with CGI Group.
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DISA, GSA detail $5 billion satellite pact
A new satellite contract that the General Services Administration and the Defense Information Systems Agency are entering into will offer a $5 billion, 10-year multiple award schedule and indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity terms.
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DOD to review use of social-media technology
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn orders a review to detail the threats and benefits from using social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Astronaut sends Tweets from space
An Army officer is the first to post Twitter feeds from the International Space Station, NASA notes.
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Agencies get creative to recruit acquisition workforce
Administration officials say new ideas are being tried to expand the acquisition workforce.
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GSA lays groundwork for online cloud computing store
Notice outlines the first set of requirements for vendors interested in offering software as a service.
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Recovery Act board publishes data dictionary
The board that oversees spending under the economic stimulus law has released a list of data elements to be used to standardize reporting.
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An open letter to Obama, in support of social participation
On the 70th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt encouraging attention to atomic technology and science, Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, and several colleagues write to President Barack Obama encouraging exploration of technology-mediated social participation.
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GSA issues cloud storefront RFQ
Storage, Web hosting and virtualization requested on an on-demand basis.
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Marines: Facebook is not for the few good men
The Marine Corps has banned using social-networking Web sites on the service’s networks because of security concerns.
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