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Veterans’ benefits agency tightens data security
The Veterans Benefits Administration is taking additional steps to ensure that veterans’ data is secure.
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Dennett promises accountability, better prices
Paul Denett, the nominee to be Office of Federal Procurement Policy administrator, promised to be vigilant in assuring that the government gets the best prices on services it procures.<@SM>
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DHS Special Report | Can DHS meet IT cybersecurity expectations?
The Homeland Security Department’s stagnant cybersecurity program stands in stark contrast to its progress in other IT areas. The job of assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications remains open, as it has been since secretary Michael Chertoff created it last October.
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DHS Special Report | Integration takes root
A modest number of IT and security initiatives are now gaining traction in the Homeland Security Department—including border screening and targeting programs, port and harbor monitoring, and the use of geospatial mapping to improve disaster response, as GCN <a href="http://www.gcn.com/print/25_16/"><b>reported last week</b></a>. In this, the second of a two-part special report on DHS, GCN looks at several fledgling and pending IT projects that form pockets of promise.
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DHS Special Report | Component approach aiding IT infrastructure consolidation
Until last October, the Homeland Security Department did not even have a global access directory—a basic requirement for a large organization. Employees couldn’t find each other if they were in different DHS directorates. Now, secretary Michael Chertoff can send an all-department e-mail with a few select addresses instead of sending it to each component agency and ordering it to cascade through those organizations.<@SM>
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Phoenix teams with immixTechnology
Three Phoenix Technologies products are now available through immixTechnology.
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Key House leader pushes for FAA telecom project funding
Verizon lobbies to kill troubled FAA effort.
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Deadbolts for databases
Add-on tools offer the last line of defense for keeping hackers away from sensitive information
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DOD Global Broadcast System goes two-way
A DISA engineering team incorporated a commercial, two-way satellite TV standard into GBS.
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Supercomputing takes NASA to infinity and beyond
From science to space exploration, the world’s fourth-fastest computer is an agency asset.
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Taming mobile data
5 steps and 3 tools to stop sensitive information from walking out the door
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Migrating to IPv6
With deadlines looming, agencies need to get serious about upgrading their data networks to the next-generation IP.
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Roadblocks hamper emergency response system coordination
Federal funding and a lack of standards affect compatible communications at the state level.
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DOD, military take hands-on approach to QDR
The writers of the Quadrennial Defense Review are now shifting gears to become executors of the guidance.<@SM>
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Diamonds in the data
Federal agencies increasingly use data mining to extract valuable info buried in large databases.
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Interior's NBC doubles shared services for federal savings board
The Interior Department’s National Business Center will provide shared services under both the Financial Management and Human Resources lines of business to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board starting next month.<@SM>
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Doan starts tenure at GSA with splash
Lurita Doan promised one thing in her first public address since taking the reins at the General Services Administration last month—change. Her first big one was bringing in Jim Williams, the program manager for one of the government’s highest-profile, politically toughest challenges—the U.S. Visit project at the Homeland Security Department.
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DHS Special Report | Forward Motion
Even as the Homeland Security Department has stumbled through project failures, stalled during leadership vacuums and withstood withering criticism, DHS has delivered some projects that serve as exemplars of technology management and are improving prospects for better project performance.<@SM>
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