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NSF creates information protection center
Iowa State University will house the new Center for Information Protection, which will conduct research leading to commercial products within 12 months.
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Focus turns to disaster response
The slow, disorganized response by emergency responders to Hurricane Katrina has prompted IT officials to think more creatively about how to deploy technology.
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FCC proposes telecom help in areas hit by Katrina
Chairman Kevin Martin proposed about $211 million to help low-income residents, health care providers, schools, libraries and telecom companies.
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A PDA in hand ...
Local, state and federal emergency responders in the Gulf Coast are using their own self-contained portable radio units with batteries, satellite phones or communications trailers with an array of devices.
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Congress wants to give VA CIO’s IT budget authority
Congress is proposing legislation that could make the Veterans Affairs Department a model for giving department CIOs across government more authority over IT resources.
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MetaCarta enters civilian government market
The Environmental Protection Agency is MetaCarta's first government customer outside of defense, intelligence and homeland security agencies.
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Unisys to provide prison phones
The integrator will replace an inmate telephone system with new technologies under a Bureau of Prisons contract.
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DOD renews deal with Booz Allen for HR integration support
The Defense Department has renewed a contract with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for continued information management support to the Joint Requirements and Integration Office.
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Sprint employees blog on hurricane relief efforts
Sprint Nextel staff work from 'Sprint City,' a six-acre home for hurricane relief workers at the Baton Rouge, La., fairgrounds.
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Scott Young | The next steps for a national health IT infrastructure
GCN staff writer Mary Mosquera moderated an online forum about federal efforts to jump-start development of a national health IT infrastructure. The guest was Scott Young, M.D., director for health information technology at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of the Health and Human Services Department.<br><@SM><a href="http://appserv.gcn.com/forum/qna_forum/36946-2.html"><u>Young transcript</u></a>.<@SM>
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Telos wins Defense messaging contract
The contract could be worth up to $34 million for support of messaging systems at the Pentagon.
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Industrial control systems security needs more work
Expert says standard antivirus protection and encryption technologies applied to industrial control systems could shut them down.
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MCI completes Totality acquisition
MCI has completed its acquisition of Totality, a privately held firm that provides remote managed services.
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Some agencies use performance measures to make decisions: GAO
A Government Accountability Office report identifies agencies that have demonstrated that using performance measures and practices can improve effectiveness.
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OMB: No new money for IPv6
Federal agencies have all the money they need to make a mandatory transition to the next generation of IP, a top OMB official said.
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Mitre: FAA telecom overhaul could face cost overruns
A report urges the agency to get the project back on track before existing contracts expire.
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CMS builds a model for health e-records
Most doctors have no idea how to implement an electronic health records system and have little trust that the federal government does either.
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Thinking nationally, starting locally
Several states already have taken steps toward establishing local health information infrastructures.
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