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VA tackles old e-mail system
VA officials plan to award a contract in December that would overhaul the agency's e-mail system and shrink the number of e-mail servers to 24 from 528 currently.
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National Archives opens high-tech vaults
Forget the musty, dusty documents -- the National Archives' Public Vaults exhibit has computer stations, plasma screens and interactive terminals.
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Better terror-fighting training through IT
DOD officials want to spend $1.3 billion on an initiative that would use advanced tech to improve training and education for warfighters.
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DARPA wants info about war ideas
Papers on computational techniques to disrupt enemy decision-making are due Dec. 10.
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Air Force to hand off ops centers IT
Expect a Nov. 15 announcement of the schedule for hiring a company to manage IT for Air and Space Operations Centers.
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GAO investigation of e-voting problems requested
Democrats have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate reports of voting irregularities, many involving electronic touch-screen voting machines.
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BearingPoint CEO leaves
Randolph Blazer, chief executive officer of BearingPoint, has stepped down and will be temporarily replaced by Roderick McGeary.
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Architecture to get more security, privacy info
The CIO Council will release a more detailed document on security and privacy requirements of the federal enterprise architecture by April.
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DHS works on case management
Officials are developing a Web hub with information for law enforcement officers.
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HHS unveils family health history software
Health and Human Services is offering free software to help Americans learn their families’ health histories and promote personal health.<@SM>
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Vegas voters favor electronic system--with a receipt
Given a choice between an electronic machine that produces a receipt of their votes or a paper ballot, Las Vegas voters chose the receipt.
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Navy puts all coursework on one site
The Navy's E-Learning distance learning system has moved to the Navy Knowledge Online Web portal.
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States continue to join EPA Exchange Network
States are buying in to the Environmental Information Exchange Network, with six adding nodes in the past six weeks.
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OPM sued over watch lists
The ACLU opposes a requirement that charities taking part in the Combined Federal Campaign must check their employees against terrorist watch lists.
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OMB plans info-sharing initiative
It will be the next lines of business initiative cutting across agency lines.
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No mandate for e-voting, computer scientist says
Despite wide use in last week’s presidential election, direct-recording electronic voting is still a faulty method of casting ballots, one computer scientist argues.<@SM>
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Joint Blue Force in the works
The Joint Chiefs of Staff will review the framework for a system that will provide a common land battlefield picture for warfighters.
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Land-ho for US-VISIT
The Homeland Security Department announced the first 50 land ports of entry to take part in the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program.
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