Modernization
Committee to suggest ways to easier records management
The two biggest challenges agencies face are the inability of legacy systems to manage records and designing processes on the front end for new systems.
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Giving XML more muscle
New XML appliances offer to take a load off overworked agency servers
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Reservists, DARPA, vendors fill technology gaps in a pinch
Military reservists in Iraq face new challenges every day, and IT workers among them are no exception.
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DOD wants standardized platform for weapons use
The Defense Department’s transformation initiative has “built up a bow wave of change,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Marc “Buck” Rogers said at last week’s Joint Warfare 2004 conference in Arlington, Va.
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AT&T wins IRS work
The tax agency will pay $54 million over five years for a network that will replace a mixture of older platforms.
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Xerox hopes Common Criteria boosts sales
The company recently became one of only two makers of copiers, printers and office machines to get the certification.
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Satellites, from the ground up
After a recent move to new quarters in Ashburn, Va., Veloris A. “Sonny” Marshall III and his 25 employees are back at work packing satellite receiving equipment into hardened “flyaway” cases for shipment from Dulles International Airport to federal sites around the world.
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Qwest unveils VoIP
Qwest's new voice-over-IP service will become available to federal agencies later this year.
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Cisco targets city wireless
The Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network provides one network for multiple wireless technologies.
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InfiniBand group plans Linux standard
OpenIB expects to announce a schedule for its product delivery by the end of September.
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Managing servers
This summer, Opsware Inc. officials will introduce a new version of the company's server management software, Opsware System 4.1...
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Sizing up coded message options
Feds face numerous ? and nuanced ? encryption schemes for securing e-mail
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Satellite orbits around server management
A new product from Opsware Inc. may help agencies remotely manage servers.
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Network monitoring comes of age
NetQoS analyzes almost all the important types of WAN traffic.
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HHS adopts standards to speed health IT
Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson wants his department to implement electronic health records ahead of the president’s 10-year goal.
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Broadband goes rural
Companies use loans to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to rural areas
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Putnam, Davis seek changes to Clinger-Cohen
Reps. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) last week added proposed language to four sections of the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, which governs how agencies make their IT investments.
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Defense medical records system is rolling out ahead of schedule
Defense Department officials say military units are already ahead of schedule in meeting a recent mandate by President Bush for federal agencies to keep electronic health records of personnel and their families.
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