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DOD signs Symantec enterprise deal
The company’s products and services are now available at reduced prices.
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Miller: More valuable than ever
CIOs have been elevated to a critical security role since Sept. 11, 2001.
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Senator: Bring back radio alert system
Sen. Ted Stevens has suggested that the country should return to broadcasting Cold War-era radio emergency alerts as part of a new national alert system.
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Census awards $500 million for 2010 project
The Census Bureau has awarded a six-year, $500 million contract to Lockheed Martin to capture and standardize 2010 census data.
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Editorial: Procedures be damned
Most people would be hard-pressed to justify how one Federal Emergency Management Agency official responded to questions about the slow delivery of medicine to emergency shelters along the Gulf Coast.
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New York awards $2 billion public safety radio communications deal
M/A-COM will implement, operate and maintain a statewide interoperable wireless radio network.
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USAJobs Web site attracts record traffic
Office of Personnel Management officials attribute the sharp increase in visitors partly to new search features and other technical improvements.
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AtHoc installs warning system for Air Force
The company has installed its IWSAlerts system at the Air Force’s Air Education Training Command site at Vance Air Force Base, Okla.
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Florida police to share data with other states
Support for XML justice standard will open door to secure info sharing
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Federal sites still need improvement
Customer satisfaction with government Web sites increased once again last quarter, although there is still need for improvement, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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Princeton study says federal careerists make better managers
The author of the study concludes that presidents are willing to trade management competence to secure ideological loyalty.
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Administration aims to get HR, financial centers on track
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget expect by the end of the year to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding the Lines of Business Consolidation initiatives.
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DRC tapped for Air Force net-centric work
The company is upgrading IT at a Langley, Va.-based intell center to improve information-sharing abilities with the other services and coalition forces.
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FirstGov.gov to expand capabilities with new contract
<font color="CC0000"><b>(UPDATED)</b></font color> The General Services Administration expects an expanded search function on the Firstgov.gov Web site to improve access to and the efficiency of the portal.
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FirstGov portal to soon offer better search organization
GSA is implementing Clusty.com, a search engine that clusters hits by category, and expanding the portal's search capacity to include 24 million Web pages.
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Google classified
Search engine partners with federal vendors to move into intelligence and defense markets.
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