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Dell sweeps the military academies

Dell won contracts to supply PCs to the incoming classes at all three military academies.

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Rep. Wolf extends telecommuting penalty for another year

NASA and the National Science Foundation could join the departments of Commerce, Justice and State as agencies that could lose funding if they don’t meet a federal telecommuting mandate.

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Portable storage

A look at five portable hard drives: Price, size, speed and other features

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Forbidden fruit

Apple seeks more federal business, but its strategy remains a mystery.

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From fantasy to reality

The values of network consolidation continue to drive efforts to build multiuse networks.

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Search vendor seeks fed biz

Inxight opens new Washington, D.C., office, hires new federal manager.

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Army announces enterprise consolidation plan

The Army will begin an enterprise consolidation plan next year that will see the creation of two area processing centers to include a variety of computer servers.

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GSA extends AT&T contract

Agencies can continue buying telecom services through AT&T's FTS contract until Feb. 26, 2009.

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FBI counterpunches IT criticism

Stung by criticism of its IT projects, the FBI today denied charges from the press and congressional investigators about the management of its Virtual Case File and Sentinel projects.

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Davis treasures GSA telecom

The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee says all federal agencies should use GSA's telecom contracts.

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Army may change policy on IT procurements

The Army has closely followed the Air Force model for quarterly consolidated IT purchases and wants to adapt it to suit the Army culture.

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Threats shift to databases

Protecting data stored on networks and PCs now presents the biggest concern rather than detecting unauthorized sniffing of packets, an expert says.

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What are your weaknesses?

Automated assessment tools help agencies steer limited resources to biggest vulnerabilities.

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Quick Look: The Alienware invasion

The company best known for gaming PCs is infiltrating the government with a series of desktop computers, notebooks and workstations.

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Keep on trucking

GPS wireless phones could record truck driver log data required by law.

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Survey: Feds aren't aware of IPv6 benefits

A Juniper survey says feds don't know that IP Version 6 could improve cybersecurity, network management and network quality of service.

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Air Force pursues new storage

Officials want to create storage-area networks and data warehouses that build on the service’s existing hardware and software.

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Senators push for faster broadband rollout

But a House bill would halt municipal broadband attempts.

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Army holds up IMOD

The Army has delayed the release of a solicitation document for the multibillion-dollar Infrastructure Modernization program.

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AT&T wins $1.7M planning deal

Systems engineers will plan the conversion of the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service to an IP-based Multiprotocol Label Switching network.