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Will the DHS financial system emerge, too?
Teams of contractors vying to develop the Homeland Security Department’s integrated financial system, dubbed Emerge2, face a risky task.
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CeLight wins DOD optical deal
The company ultimately plans to have a transceiver for stopping optical jammers and eavesdroppers.
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FAA telecom turbulence
Overseeing the Federal Aviation Administration's telecommunications has been a tough job so far, says the man in charge of it.
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States, feds working to fix Matrix
State officials would keep greater control of their own information under a plan that federal officials hope will bolster support for an antiterrorism information-sharing network.
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IP videoconferencing toolbox
A well-equipped IP videoconferencing system requires a handful of key components
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Mission gap: A special report on the Homeland Security Department
Two years after coming into being, the Homeland Security Department is still under construction, a loose collection of agencies not bound by a common infrastructure. GCN focuses this report on the gaps in Homeland's bridge to domestic security, and its successes to date as well.
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Cooper, Congress look to reshape chain of command
Congressional Democrats recently branded the Homeland Security Department’s IT management as less than effective and blamed it on “an organizationally weak DHS CIO’s office.”
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Air Force seeks Microsoft pact
Air Force officials are planning to use enterprise software licensing agreements to consolidate Microsoft Corp. software contracts.
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USPS to pay $25M for network
Government Telecommunications Inc. won the deal to upgrade the network for 108 mail-processing plants.
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How tools find patterns in flight
In January, Megaputer Intelligence Inc. and Southwest Airlines completed a proof-of-concept demonstration of flight-data analysis and presented their findings to the Global Aviation Information Network, an airline safety community of interest that maintains a Web site at www.gainweb.org.</a>
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Taking data to a higher plane
Success has made reducing airline accidents and near misses into a difficult task. The most common, and most potent, causes are known and have been addressed by technology or better procedures. The remaining causes are more subtle, and therefore harder to pinpoint.
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DHS Issues Oracle Warning
Officials used the National Cyber Alert System to warn about database vulnerabilities
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Equitrac boosts control of paper mountain
Equitrac Office 3.0 gives IT administrators control document distribution and costs
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Major weaknesses still dog IRS modernization
While IRS and contractor CSC have made progress on business systems modernization, schedule delays and cost increases continue, according to an inspector general report.
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AT&T urges intrusion prevention
Blocking worms and attacks beats patching, AT&T's chief security officer says.
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