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Clean audit in 2007 is DOD’s goal
Each day the Defense Department seems to uncover another financial or business system to add to its already massive modernization program. But even as the scope of the systems consolidation grows, officials are sticking to the goal of a clean financial audit by 2007.
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DOD to use NCES
Net-Centric Enterprise Services will allow analysts and warfighters to share information more quickly and easily.
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Tools for data-driven management
James Taylor, the Commerce Department’s deputy chief financial officer, didn’t know his boss was unhappy until he read it in a magazine article. Then-deputy secretary Sam Bodman, a veteran executive of several large corporations, bemoaned the lack of financial tools at his government post.
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IBM partitions eServers
Big Blue hopes its micro-partioning technology boosts server sales.
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Sizing up UPS
Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) vary in capacity, providing backup power for individual PCs, enterprise data centers and everything in between.
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Power surge
Uninterruptible power supplies find expanded role in VOIP, security systems, branch offices
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UPS meets new network technology
The recently standardized power-over-Ethernet (POE) approach is getting a boost from an old standby: uninterruptible power supplies.
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NNSA shores up cybersecurity
The National Nuclear Security Administration chose netForensics Inc.'s nFX software to monitor 400 security devices.
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Traction offers advanced Web logging
Software tightly integrates and secures information sharing.
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FCC, Nextel come to terms
Nextel would move from the 800 MHz radio spectrum to the 1.9 GHz frequency range.
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Satellites connect Illinois health
Illinois is deploying a satellite-based alert and warning system to link hospitals and public health offices statewide.
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FCC moves Nextel spectrum
The controversial deal shifts Nextel out of the 800 MHz spectrum, which is used by public safety communications systems.
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HSIN starts five months early
The Homeland Security Information Network is operational, DHS officials say.
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GSA shares a free tool
Some business case tools are free. The Business Case Decision Tool, at <a href= "http://www.sis-gov.com">www.sis-gov.com</a>, is available online from GSA’s Share-in-Savings program.<@SM>
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The lowdown on business case software
<b>What is it?</b> Business case software helps agencies through the process of creating a convincing business case, employing templates and, in some programs, scorecards based on known criteria that help judge how the business case will be received.
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Leaving space
General Accounting Office auditors recently reviewed military satellite services.
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DHS IG details wireless weaknesses
The Homeland Security Department's wireless networks are vulnerable to hackers, says the DHS inspector general.
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