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Mobile service providers unhappy with FCC auction plan
Companies argue the proposal by chairman Kevin Martin would interfere with their operations in adjacent airwaves and impose conditions that largely benefit one bidder.
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Federal identity programs boost biometrics market
The estimated value of government contracts for ID programs has more than doubled since 2006, fueling a hot business for lobbying.
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Commerce versus security
The debate about screening shipping containers is one problem that current technology is not going to solve.
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Coast Guard fuses data sources
The Coast Guard uses a Trusted Computer Solutions product that received accreditation at the top-secret and secret levels in 2006.
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Suda: IT paves the way to safer roads
DOT is looking for ways to use emerging technologies to meet safety andcongestion-reduction goals.
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Agencies hit security mark
OMB’s target is to have only 100 Internet connections governmentwide, official says.
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The federal enterprise architecture: Where it fits
The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 called for agencies to adopt an IT architecture to govern the management and acquisition of new IT.
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Enterprise architects talk the business talk
More people now see EA as a planning and management tool, not a technology project.
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Pointers: Recommended reading
This week's finds: Research beyond Google; The real snail mail; Web 2.0 meets presidential politics; After the flood.
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NOAA awards contract to manage huge stores of environmental data
Goal is to make it easier for researchers to search the petabytes of weather information the agency collects.
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Edgerton: June 30: The deadline is here
The latest IPv6 milestone ought to generate more discussion than it has.
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Verizon nabs Postal Service Networx contract
Deal worth $16.4 million is another sign business is picking up on huge telecom agreement
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BBN field tests portable translator
BBN Technologies has developed a translation device that enables a two-way dialogue between speakers of different languages.
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A new life for talk-to-text?
Efforts of speech-recognition developers could pay off as a smart application for smart phones.
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Letter: AtHoc not a de facto alert platform for military
A reader finds a source comment misleading about AtHoc's alert platform being a "'de facto' alert platform for the Navy and Air Force."
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IG: IPv6 deadline challenges DHS
The Homeland Security Department is falling behind in meeting an immediate deadline to demonstrate its support for IPv6, the department's inspector general finds.
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