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Rutgers will lead DHS-financed info research
A Rutgers-led consortium will develop technology that finds patterns and relationships in data contained in news stories, blogs and other sources.
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Inside OPM’s new telework guidelines
Detailed guidance focuses on pandemic emergencies, information security.
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NASA’s next mission: Find the missing moonwalk video
High-quality Apollo 11 recordings vanish.
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GAO: More specifics needed on e-archive project
NARA's fiscal 2006 appropriations act requires the agency to submit an expenditure plan before allotting funds to the ERA program.
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DHS IG calls for better RFID security
One problem is that DHS does not have a departmentwide policy for how its various agencies should manage and protect systems that use RFID.
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Law enforcement agencies explore semantics
Technology could help in collection and analysis of data.
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Education gets new IT chief
William Vajda, a former NSA information technology official, will oversee the department’s IT efforts to gather data for student assessments under the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Welles: Are you really ready to retire?
Employees approaching retirement need more info and less wishful thinking about their options.
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Editorial: The need for advice
There is a real need for objective recommendations from groups that can take the time and effort to study important issues, dissect them and present them coherently and cohesively.
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Service families to get free PCs
Operation Homelink and CDW-G will present 100 refurbished computers to families of the U.S. Army 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, so they can communicate with service members overseas.
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The test of e-gov: efficiency and effectiveness
Although the Office of Management and Budget has long touted savings as the chief benefit of e-government initiatives, some current and former government officials say the White House could be leaving out a critically important measure—effectiveness—in their efforts to gain congressional support.<@SM>
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Census Bureau seeks consulting support
It wants to observe best practices from the 2010 census to apply to the 2020 one.
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Air Force awards $4.8M contract to BPC
The company will provide management, supervision and personnel for the Air Combat Command’s Air Operations Squadron Mission Control Center at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
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FirstGov, USDA portals rank as top government sites
Web sites operated by the General Services Administration and the Agriculture Department topped a recent Brown University analysis.<@SM>
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Report: Government Web sites need uniformity
“State and Federal E-Government in the United States” ranks FirstGov as the top federal site.
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SSA solicits encryption info
The agency's telecommunications office is seeking contractors that can provide a commercial encryption product for data in its Windows 2003 file servers.
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DHS awards EAGLE contracts
A department spokesman could not confirm who the winners are or how many have been awarded contracts.
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