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IDC: Market analysts might have overestimated IPv6 spending

Beware of unrealistic spending numbers, Government Insights Research Director Shawn McCarthy cautions IPv6 vendors.

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IAC announces 2007 leaders of Shared Interest Groups

The nine SIGs and their new leaders will maintain their current goals and objectives, IAC said in a statement.

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GSA revenues fall, FAS misses several 2006 goals

The agency's governmentwide acquisition contract task orders totaled $2.4 billion in fiscal 2006, down $1 billion from a year ago.

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USPS extends contract to HP

Under the IDIQ contract, HP will deliver hardware, software and services to upgrade the U.S. Postal Service’s distributed computing systems.

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GSA to host second Networx summit

The two-day event in January will provide information and opportunities to ask questions about moving from FTS 2001 to the upcoming Networx contract.

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Windows fortified

Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, offers users stronger security, better performance than earlier versions.

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Military, agencies to phish their workers

The government-sanctioned attacks will test how well federal workers know their agency's e-mail security policies.

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Thumb drives are too often the victims of convenience

USB flash drives can be a data security nightmare. Here are some ways to fix the problem.

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Budget squeeze, SBInet award highlight 2006

Iraq war costs take toll on agency spending.

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Neal Fox | GSA and DOD: new agreement, old mistakes

I wish I could say that the newly signed procurement agreement between GSA and the Defense Department will help bring DOD business back to GSA, but it won’t. In fact, it will do the opposite.<@SM>

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Intel data protection levels to be standardized

The federal government is poised to adopt a common array of data protection levels and criteria by which the secrecy rankings are to be determined.<@SM>

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Primavera Systems buys two companies

Terms were not released in the purchase of ProSight, a portfolio analysis solutions company, and Pertmaster, a U.K. risk analysis and mitigation solutions company.

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Bush to name Harris chief to advisory committee

Howard Lance will join other industry chief executives on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

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Tom Pyke | A more secure IT environment

Tom Pyke was tapped to be the cowboy in the white hat for the Energy Department after a series of high-profile lapses in computer security at the department recently.

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GSAs proposed merger of policy shops may create political tensions

Some say offices have different missions and goals.

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Government’s other IT workforce

The federal government doesn’t know how many contract IT workers it employs. Nor does it care, as long as the work gets done. But with $67 billion in IT funds sloshing around in the federal budget, ignoring the bulk of the workforce iceberg also ignores regulatory, policy and demographic issues.

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Secure business processes

Metastorm receives EAL-2 Common Criteria Certification for Metastorm e-Work, v. 6.6.1.

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Strategic retreat

The agreement between the Office of Personnel Management and the Bureau of Public Debt’s Administrative Resource Center to cancel their relationship under the financial-management Line of Business initiative could prove to be a breakthrough in federal project management.

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VA finally gets its IT all in one basket

Between Dec. 18 and next April, the Veterans Affairs Department expects to complete what a chorus of administration, congressional and IT experts have been advocating for years—centralizing its IT organization.

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The rise of the contractor workforce

Vendors offer a glimpse behind the corporate veil