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Chertoff fills new policy position
Richard Barth, appointed DHS' first assistant secretary for policy development, comes from a 12-year stint at Motorola.
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FBI recovers stolen computer with VA data
The computer contained insurance claim data, including names, addresses and personal identifiers, for about 16,000 veterans and their families.
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House passes database spending bill
The House late Wednesday passed legislation creating a searchable database that will track all kinds of federal spending, moving the bill to the president’s desk for his expected signature.
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Congress sends financial transparency bill to White House
The House passed the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which would require OMB to build a publicly accessible online database of who receives federal money.
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William Jackson | Cybereye: E-standards needed for national elections
Well into another election season, there are still no standards in place to ensure that votes cast are accurately recorded and counted.
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HHS awards General Dynamics Grants.gov deal
Grants.gov lets seekers of federal grants find and apply for opportunities through a single portal.<@SM>
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Experts say border security technologies offer no panacea
The Homeland Security Department is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to remove limitations on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for patrolling U.S. borders.
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NIST addresses ‘alternative theories’ on WTC collapse
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published an FAQ supplementing its report on the collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers.<@SM><@SM>
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EDS appoints client industry executive
Judith Douglas recently served as vice president of leadership and performance at the Council for Excellence in Government.
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DHS awards contracts for cargo radiation detection
The contracts, with a potential total of $1.3 billion, went to SAIC, American Science and Engineering and L-3 Communications.
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Lawmakers, industry tackle e-waste
The bipartisan Congressional E-Waste Working Group met with electronics retailers, recyclers, environmental groups and state officials to pin down a uniform solution.
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GPO's first female superintendent of documents retires
Judith Russell helped create GPO Access, a Web portal that allows easier public access to government documents and databases.
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Bruce Brody to leave Input
The information security vice president will be joining CACI and "the front lines of information security."
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Meyerrose: Solve problems to sell EA
Show agency leaders how the architecture aligns with the organization's goals to garner support for enterprise architecture, Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose said.
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Spawar picks AtHoc for emergency alert system
The alerts will go to 400,000 users in the Navy's four U.S. regions.
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Deepwater funding, support insufficient, DHS' IG says
A lack of discipline in overseeing change management processes and poor testing of C4ISR systems have undermined the program, the report states.
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GAO: JTRS software lacks portability
Lack of a fully functioning gateway could impede battlefield communications, a recent report also states.
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DHS says cybersecurity exec candidate coming soon
DHS' Foresman said the department would possibly bring the candidate for assistant secretary for cybersecurity forward in the near future, pending a security clearance process.
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Air Force awards Lockheed $589M contract
The company will become the Air and Space Operations Center’s Weapon System Integrator.
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