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iSCSI bridges the storage gap

The lower-cost Fibre Channel alternative can help small-to-midsize offices consolidate storage.

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Sourcefire, Check Point drop merger talks

The companies plan to pursue a partnership rather than an acquisition, six months after first announcing plans.

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NARA puts over 400,000 State Department records online

The National Archives and Records Administration is making available online, for the first time, over 400,000 State Department records and telegrams from 1973 and 1974.

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New Orleans wants regional, redundant radio system

Officials hope to have it established before hurricane season starts.

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GSA working on new WITS contract

The telecom vehicle provides local service for agencies in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Verizon unveils network tools

The tools provide aid in network assessment, reporting, dynamic bandwidth adjustments and packet marking.

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Europe wants more broadband

European Commission officials have called for greater high-speed Internet coverage across the continent to spur job growth.

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Capt. Jeffrey J. Arsenault: Deployable comms aid supply effort

Hurricane Katrina tested Arsenault’s leadership, but his personality and training helped him overcome obstacles to supporting Air Force relief efforts.

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FAA: Knowledge sharing shouldn’t be forced

Agency’s use of online collaboration space has expanded to solve workgroup problems

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States slow to implement E911

Many states have not set dates for upgrading systems to manage wireless calls.

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New products unwrapped at FOSE

Introducing the latest in biometrics, tough notebook PCs and flat panel displays

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Capt. Fred Mingo: Calm heads prevail in crisis response

Mingo initiated a continuity of operations plan that kept Spawar in business when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

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Masters of disaster

FCW has recognized more than a dozen individuals in government, industry and the nonprofit sector who responded to Hurricane Katrina and helped in the recovery.

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Origin adds freebie to research aid

Free viewer allows users to see data and documents in files created by company's research management software.

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Proventia offers advanced virus protection

New functionality boosts desktop PC software’s defenses

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IT managers eye multiple priorities: survey

Senior agency IT managers report their priorities are spread across a number of areas in fiscal 2006, including ensuring their agencies receive a significant return on investment for their systems, information security and the federal IT budget.

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Agencies see value in EVM, but struggle to cash in on it

Although the government for the most part is embracing the concept of earned-value management, some agencies are going to be hard-pressed to meet upcoming Office of Management and Budget deadlines this month.<@SM>

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Defense's business transformation chugs forward

In sending Version 3.1 of its business enterprise architecture to Congress last week, the Defense Department took another incremental step toward better data standardization and interoperability.

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NIST says agencies should begin move to stronger hashing tools

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is urging agencies to begin migrating away from the flawed SHA-1 hashing algorithm in favor of stronger algorithms.

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N.Y. counties turn to Salient to boost efficiency

The state's Association of Counties is pushing the company's software to help county officials gauge their performance.