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Cohen: Superpower status has a downside

Cyberwarfare and other security threats simply come with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen told a group of veterans last week.

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Army fine-tunes missile defense C3

The Army Space Command recently completed a joint battle planning exercise designed to finetune national missiledefense command, control and communications

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Jersey taking hard look at computer crime

A report recommends the state enact new laws, train police and educate young people in order to get a handle on cyberstalking and Internet-related crime.

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GSA studies smart card value

The General Services Administration has hired a contractor to study the cost and benefits of using PKIenabled smart cards for federal applications

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Adobe prepares accessible PDF reader

As they prepare to comply with new requirements to make Web sites readable by visually impaired users, federal Webmasters point to a major concern PDF files

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County tests online tax filing

Snohomish County will experiment this fall with filing personal property information online

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Superpower status risks cyberattack

Cyberwarfare comes with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen said

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Pa. linking patrol cars to databases

Police officials say computer technology could liberate patrolmen from bureaucratic requirements so they can spend more time enforcing the law

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Global governments shape e-economy

A report from an international policy and technology consulting firm looked at foreign nations' 'ereadiness' five strengths needed for an economy to function in an IT world

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DOT tackles flow of flight delay data

A new task force will compile best practices on getting quick, accurate information on flight delays to workers who deal directly with passengers

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Fed search engine won't come cheap

Private companies may pay thousands a year to enable their users to search government sites and track information

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Roster Change

Roster Change

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Intercepts

The Navy issued new guidance July 25 on how to identify information technology jobs that are 'inherently governmental' and others that are open to being outsourced.

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The infosec brain drain

It's time for the federal government to sound a security alert of a different sort.

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Naval Academy tests laptop learning

The U.S. Naval Academy set sail last week on an experimental program to determine if laptop computers can provide students with the same support in their coursework as traditional desktops.

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Partners Web-enable public services

SCI and Blue Angel combine their expertise to develop iEnvision, a portal where the public can get information and do business with the government

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SAS speeds into e-gov arena

SAS Institute Inc.'s new eGovernment Solutions program focuses on helping government clients deliver information and services electronically

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Navy opens some IT ops to vendors

The ongoing debate about how the Defense Department should organize to support the emerging hightech field of information operations took an unexpected turn last month when the Navy published new guidance that opens up certain portions of the IO field to civilian contractors.

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Military mandates single e-shipping system

An Army command that moves 16 million shipments per year at a cost of $1 billion in commercial transportation services is mandating the use of an electronic payment and shipment tracking system called PowerTrack.

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Army tests self-healing network

To try to cut through the fog of war, the Army uses tactical operation systems (TOS) computer networks that collect information about troop positions and movements. But battle is messy, and computers don't respond well when resources unexpectedly become unavailable. In a pervasive computing environment, such disorder would be the norm.