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McManus to leave government work

The Commerce Department's deputy chief information officer and chief technology officer has held the position for less than a year.

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McManus to leave government work

The Commerce Department's deputy chief information officer and chief technology officer has held the position for less than a year.

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DISA setting up new network monitoring center

The Information Sharing Operations Center will gather data about the status of various services feeding data to the military networks for a variety of applications.

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DISA sees managed services as the future

Agency CIO John Garing wants to expand DISA's use of this approach to software.

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GAO employees able to sneak past Border Patrol

The Government Accountability Office says security at the U.S./Canadian border needs to be stronger.

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State Department opens up with Dipnote blog

Officials hope to take some of the secrecy out of diplomacy though the Web log.

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VA: IT, security progress to accelerate in 2008

But GAO said the department is lagging in its reorganization and management processes.

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Privacy, IT officers come together to create policy

Notifying agencies and individuals about data breaches has forged new relationships.

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Army center to get knowledge management help

The Army Defense Ammunition Center has hired SI International to evaluate training courses and develop Web-based processes.

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OPM wants new evaluation of security clearance process

Director Linda Springer, citing progress on the security clearance backlog, has called for an updated report from the Government Accountability Office.

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GSA tones down request for federal spending database

The agency modified the RFP to ask only for analyzed data, not technical services.

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DISA on the lookout for unknown technologies

The agency issued a request for information to find out what industry has available that DOD doesn't know about.

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Air Force names Lord to lead Cyber Command

Maj. Gen. William Lord will continue determining the Air Force's cyberspace strategy.

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Open season for health

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House committee would tighten oversight of Deepwater program

Provisions in the Coast Guard authorization bill would direct the service to appoint a chief acquisition officer for its modernization program and to conduct technical reviews of all design proposals and changes.

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England to be DOD's first chief management officer

In his new role, DOD Deputy Secretary Gordon England has the lead in ensuring the Pentagon's business functions are in sync with the military's warfighting missions.

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DHS deputy secretary resigns

Michael Jackson, who has held the position since March 2005, will step down Oct. 26.

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Air Force 'shocked' by Chinese actions in space

Secretary Michael Wynne says the service must defense U.S. space assets.

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Lawmakers to DHS: Investigate response to cyberattacks

The House Homeland Security Committee has requested that the Homeland Security Department's inspector general investigate cyberattacks on DHS that originated from Chinese-language Web sites and actions by Unisys that the committee called incompetent and possibly illegal and may have failed to detect the intrusions.

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DOD failed to stop exploitation

With private security firm Blackwater USA under fire for its role in a recent shooting incident in Baghdad, new details are emerging about another problem involving contractors in Iraq: the working and living conditions of international laborers employed on U.S. government projects.