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McCall: New look at an old technology
Demanding information needs call for more automated business processing.
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Extensions eliminate cell blind spots
Lawrence Berkeley lab uses indoor mobile technology to boost spotty coverage
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Intelligence community to reboot security
The intelligence community is turning to Defense services and agencies, industry and academia to help them overhaul their outdated and ineffective certification and accreditation processes. This month, personnel will begin receiving invitations to participate in one of two teams that will ultimately make suggestions on how to improve certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
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Too much for NSA to mine?
The commotion over allegations that the National Security Agency has been secretly compiling data on millions of telephone calls made by ordinary citizens raises an interesting question: With the technologies in place today, how well can NSA actually mine the information it gathers?<@SM>
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Get ready for IPv6, industry leader says
IPv4 use will peak in 2010, Alex Lightman said.
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NIST releases standards for securing domain names
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recommends enforcing content control of DNS name resolution using integrity constraints.
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Telelogic updates development tools
Lifecycle Suite is only one of several new or upgraded offerings set for a June launch.
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Military interoperability test begins
Cisco Systems is providing the core network infrastructure for the exercise, which started today in Lager Aulenbach, Germany.
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House committee wants report on access control system standards for DOD facilities
House Armed Services Committee also asks comptroller general to determine if system can ensure legitimacy of cards.
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Energy contract stirs conflict
Problems with large government IT contracts grab headlines every day, but small awards can be just as much trouble. Just ask the Energy Department. A recent award, to a software supplier whose offer was priced substantially higher than two competitors and rated lower on technical merits, is one example.
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Fortress on the Hill
Capitol Visitor Center has 580,000 square feet underground, but officials won’t say whether it is a congressional bunker
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Agencies chip away at BSMs
GAO has for years critiqued the efforts of federal agencies to modernize their business processes and the IT that drives them. A report released earlier this year highlighted a continuing lack of discipline on processes including requirements management, testing, data conversion, system interfaces, and risk and project management.
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Editorial: Opportunities abound
The Bush administration’s pandemic plan is rife with opportunities for the government IT community.
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How to chill out
It isn’t sexy, but IT managers will tell you that keeping a data center properly cooled is an ongoing challenge. An average rack of servers once consumed roughly five kilowatts per hour. Today it’s not unusual for a rack of servers to consume seven, 15 or up to 30 kWh in ultradense, blade-filled racks. That’s expensive—and hot.<@SM>
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HUD’s team effort
In its Vision 2010 document released in February, the Housing and Urban Development Department laid out its modernization strategy around its core lines of business. To get there in about four years, the department will rely on portfolio and project management—the basic tenets of any large system modernization effort.
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Put an end to manual penetration testing
Core Impact automates the task of finding security vulnerabilities.
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