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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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Vendors step up ID management

Oblix focuses on portal security; Sun secures directory

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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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Army expands recruitment document management system

System upgrade will also enable the Army to better share data among offices and other military departments.

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The Google connection

Mark Forman says that FCW's e-gov survey shows that people will use a commercial search engine such as Google to find government services.

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the Pipeline

Finding security holes; routers.

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Click. Are you available?

Enterprise Web conferencing products fuel collaboration

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Business Process: Brett Champlin

Business process management “deal(s) with the perceived amounts of waste” in government, says Brett Champlin, president of the Association of Business Management Professionals, a vendor-neutral nonprofit group. Champlin answered questions in a GCN Forum June 7. <a href="http://www.gcn.com/forum/qna_forum/25946-2.html"><b>Transcript</a></b>

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Navy financial system upgrades saluted

The financial management division of the Naval Supply Systems Command is reaping the rewards of its financial transformation efforts.

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New role for Google

Company pitches search appliance for agency intranets

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Appliance features

The new version of the Google Search Appliance, announced last week, provides many of the same features as the Internet search engine but also includes several administrative functions.

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Shrinking hardware, tighter security

PDA-size notebook, wireless and PC security highlight CeBit America show

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Turning procurement into profits

Software helps contractors find opportunities, manage proposals.

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Best practices registry in development

Updated CIO Council Web site to include a best practices registry.<@SM>