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Agencies delaying move to Microsoft Vista
Several agency CIOs said they either see no business reason to move from Windows XP, or they are budgeting and planning for the transition in 2009 or beyond.
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System chiefs run for daylight
Change management is key to making sure applications will be able to spring forward
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Walter Reed tenants to get Internet access
An upgrade of the IT infrastructure at the Army medical facility follows an exposé of conditions there.
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Survey: Reliability more important than transportability to feds
Despite the government’s attempts to encourage teleworking, a recent survey of 388 federal IT managers revealed a greater need for network reliability than for transportability.
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Remembering MCI Mail
MCI did something no other company had done before when it connected its e-mail to the Internet.
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CIOs spring forward on daylight-saving fix
A 2005 law that changed daylight-saving requires major effort to patch computers.
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GSA considers establishing IPv6 program office
John Johnson said the agency is working on the idea to help guide GSA's compliance with the mandate to transition to the next-generation protocol.
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Tools for managed network services are coming together
Networx and the IT Infrastructure Line of Business Consolidation effort are poised to push agencies into outsourcing at least some of their networks responsibilities.
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McManus: Opportunities lie beyond IPv6 deadline
The changeover is not about the protocol or telling people that IPv6 offers an almost unlimited number of IP address, he said. It’s about what the protocol enables.
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Providers look for a level playing field
OMB has not decided how to resolve inequities in the 1932 Economy Act.
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Leaders want reporting on same page
Common accounting code could weed out some of the ‘thousand flowers.’
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NIST releases info security documents
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published two new interagency reports designed to help auditors, inspectors general and senior management understand and evaluate information security programs.<@SM>
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Industry sends DOT mixed message on GPS backup system
An aviation group supports shutting down the land-based Loran navigation system, but Boeing said the system could be useful if GPS services were disrupted.
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Companies join forces to bring software management to feds
Palamida and Merlin International specialize in compliance and risk mitigation solutions.
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FBI tracks secret 'wiretaps' with multilevel security
The FBI has launched an application that monitors the preparation of requests for secret wiretaps by using several levels of classification, according to the security level of the user.<@SM>
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Sorting SOA fact from fiction
7 truths about service-oriented architecture that savvy leaders can take to the bank.
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DISA budgets $205.2 million for NCES over three years
The agency also plans to spend nearly $270 million on DOD networking programs and more than $113 million on spectrum initiatives, according to its three-year spending plan.
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Data loss gets personal
Security experts say hackers are going straight for information in 2007.
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Democrats used good data to win midterms
Party scrapped worn-out computers and old voter files for newer technology.
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