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DOD keeps eye on imaging technology
An innovative surveillance device capable of giving military and civilian personnel a 360degree view of dangerous or hardtoreach locations is rapidly capturing the imagination of Defense Department officials, according to military and industry sources.
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Mainframe makeover
The software conversion tool that the Air Force is using transforms mainframe software to a Java-based architecture in four steps
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House aids net defense
Congress targeted the Pentagon's 'most serious vulnerabilities' with a $150 million increase in the fiscal 2001 Defense appropriations bill for information assurance and computer network security programs.
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Democrats go dot-com
In a bid to tap the appeal of the Internet, the Democratic National Committee is offering free Internet service to anyone with a computer and a telephone line.
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Netgov.com latest to enter e-government race
Four former big city mayors are lending their municipal experience to the effort which will target smaller-size governments
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DOD's tunnel vision
The Pentagon plans to make information technology as much a part of warfare and peacekeeping operations as bullets are.
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Financial-flavored XML takes shape
A consortium of software, consulting and accounting firms hopes to recruit government financial managers as users of a new electronic publishing language that standardizes how agencies present financial reports.
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DOD: SPS makes headway
The Defense Department is making progress in moving its users to its new Standard Procurement System, which is designed to eliminate the paper from the department's contracting process.
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E-government not clicking for feds
The federal government has more than 20,000 World Wide Web sites, but the plethora of pages doesn't mean the federal sector is speeding toward a functioning electronic government, according to Alan Balutis, cochairman of the federal CIO Council's EGovernment Committee.
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Experts: Center won't affect NMD
Experts say they view the agreement to build the earlywarning architecture as an important step to improve nuclear safety, but they downplay the impact the new center could have on the U.S. decision to field a limited national missile defense (NMD) system.
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Not e-gov but e-governance
The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a new program to look beyond information technology for developing online applications to establishing the policies and practices that are required to meet veterans' needs in a digital government.
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Railroad agency rolls toward e-commerce
The Federal Railroad Administration is on track to complete the installation of Oracle Federal Financials, a commercial offtheshelf software platform that will enable the agency to easily link its financial management system to new electronic commerce applications.
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The geography of networking
The U.S. military has established alliances with dozens of nations to carry out operations.
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Training new cybersleuths
President Clinton's initiative to attract students to work as federal information security experts in exchange for tuition reimbursement is moving one step closer to reality.
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'My N.C.' on the way for citizens
People will be able to customize the state portal, much in the way people can choose their favorite content on World Wide Web sites like Yahoo
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Putting the success in succession
If your senior information technology executives leave for another job or retirement, do you know who will take their place?
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FAA gives exec planning a lift
For the Federal Aviation Administration, succession planning makes practical business sense: It is important to the agency's future success.
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