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Agriculture changing data centers expertise

USDA is reconfiguring its data centers in New Orleans and in Kansas City, Mo., to take advantage of volume purchases and improve disaster recovery.

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TCE terminated

Treasury cancels its controversial Treasury Communications Enterprise and now plans to use General Services Administration contracts

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Florida port scans driver prints

Cross Match Technologies this week formally unveiled a biometric visitor management system at the Port of Palm Beach, Fla.

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AT&T Networx point man to leave

Robert Collet, who has headed up AT&T's efforts to win the forthcoming Networx contract, is leaving the company.

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OMB directs agencies to begin buying commodities strategically

The Office of Management and Budget this week expanded the concept of enterprise software licensing to commodities.

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Does IPv6 ring a bell?

Not with most feds, according to a Juniper Networks study.

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Jacksonville gives data on demand

Thin-client applications improve employee productivity.

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Spinning a new tune

Agencies interested in disk-based backup face a slew of options.

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Scaling the mountain

Telecom officials analyze massive Networx RFPs to seize opportunities.

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Interior to use wireless despite Internet court battle

A December Interior IG report shows numerous cases in which the agency did not take proper steps to secure wireless traffic.

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Rugged enough for the military

Itronix's GoBook III is one tough notebook.

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Qwest taps Gowen to head federal sales team

Qwest Communicatons appointed industry veteran Diana Gowen as head of its federal sales team.

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Security issues trip up DHS info-sharing network

Agency may have rushed to complete network under a false deadline.

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Payne leaves Qwest

James Payne, who served as senior vice president and general manager of Qwest Government Services, is no longer with the company.

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Entrust to sign e-passports

The first generation of e-passports will store information digitally signed using technology from Entrust.

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Dell recycles Park's PCs

And the National Park Service won't pay a dime.

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Montana VISITS with Siebel

Siebel Public Sector will provide a news system for the state's Promotion Division.

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Amber Alerts arrive wirelessly

Wireless companies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children formed an initiative to deliver Amber Alerts wirelessly.

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Fed agencies edge toward VOIP

Education, Interior departments step up efforts to deploy IP telephony.

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Qwest to boost HUD networks

The company will get up to $19 million to improve data transfer between field locations and six regional offices.