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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.
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National Guard chooses Perceptive document software
ImageNow will provide access to documents and data security in support of the bureau's medical readiness initiative.
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DOD delivers BEA Version 3.1 to Congress
The Defense Department will meet its second congressionally imposed deadline today when it hand-delivers the latest iteration of its business enterprise architecture and enterprise transition plan to several congressional Defense committees.<@SM>
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DISA picks AT&T for defense network
AT&T will supply circuits and manage network bandwidth for the Defense Information Systems Network under the three-year contract.
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Panel: Feds can spur use of interoperability standards
The government can help industry vendors understand the cross-disciplinary nature of interoperability efforts, experts say.
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IPv6: Where's the return on investment?
Even if there is no immediate return on investment, agencies must reprioritize funds to make the transition to IPv6, experts say.
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