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Klossner: 'Camp Don't'
FCW cartoonist John Klossner, just back from a disconcerting visit to a Boy Scouts camp, wonders about how the Defense Department will proceed to improve the security of its networks.
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Standards groups form alliance to set cloud-computing standards
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Info science revisited
Welcome to the world of the “Semantic Web.” It’s a generational leap from everything we know so far about how to leverage the power of the Web, though it’s not such a stretch from the old reference-desk paradigm.
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Site maps stimulus spending
The Recovery.gov Web site for tracking spending under the economic stimulus law spending has new mapping features.
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IT costs central to Real ID, PASS ID debate
Backers of the Real ID Act and proposed PASS ID Act have been debating the extent to which states need to make expensive information technology investments to improve the security of driver's licenses.
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Anticipated Web 3.0 jibes with open-government goals
Whereas Web 2.0 is about connecting people through social-networking applications, Web 3.0 will be about connecting information in new ways that people will find more useful and relevant. It'll be a boon for government transparency, but it won't be happening soon.
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40 years after moon landing, public unaware of NASA's tech contributions
Many think the Apollo program and GPS navigation are the biggest accomplishments, but other agencies have benefited from the space agency's IT systems.
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DOD on the hunt for security solutions
Recent RFIs focus on virtualization-based security strategeies and commercial solutions for defending against denial-of-service attacks.
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Administration to get recommendations on reducing over-classification
The Public Interest Declassification Board has been gathering public recommendations for how the Obama administration should improve policies for classifying national security data.
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Agencies seek social-media contractors
Even though social-media tools are easy to use, some agencies want contractors to help anyway.
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Recommended Reading
Resources on the Semantic Web, technology design, mobile technology and collaboration tools.
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GAO: Grants.gov has serious weaknesses
The Government Accountability Office says the government portal that has information on more than 1,000 grant programs and provides access to approximately $500 billion in annual awards needs better management.
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DHS to vendors: Help us shield dot-gov domain
The Homeland Security Department wants information from companies on their solutions that could be used to protect the government's domain used by civilian agencies.
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Good site searches vital, experts say
It's important that agencies' Web sites be easy to search, experts say.
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IT central to debate over Real ID, PASS ID
Backers of a new driver's license security program say the current Real ID program's costly IT requirements are unnecessary and won't work for states.
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Voice over IP builds bridge to the future of DOD comms
The lessons of VOIP are helping expand and combine rich communications and collaboration on military networks.
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Creative destruction at work
Netbook computers can tell you a lot about where information technology is headed in the not-too-distant future. The days of big system, multiyear efforts to design and build new government IT applications are largely behind us.
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