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ACLU fears return of TIA
Privacy advocates worry about an info-sharing provision in 9-11 legislation.
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Four IT bills rejected in California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed bills that address IT-related issues, including outsourcing, broadband access and electronic surveillance of employees.
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Live testing soon for Virtual Case File
New Orleans and Washington, D.C., will start testing the final application for the FBI's Trilogy effort.
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Stratcom gets help with ISR
Strategic Command will work with the Defense Intelligence Agency on a global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance plan.
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Navy awards engineering contract
Anteon will provide engineering and technical services to support Navy maintenance and modernization programs.
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SEC to make online authentication more stringent
“We’re looking at implementing a new authentication system to prevent people from fraudulently filing,” SEC chief security officer Chrisan Herrod says.
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US-VISIT expands to visa waivers
Visitors from visa waiver countries soon will have to through the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program.
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Calif. mandates voter trails by 2006
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that will require the state's electronic voting machines to produce a voter verifiable paper trail.
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ATF appoints new CIO
Gregg Bailey will lead the IT functions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Denver retains e-gov title
The Mile High City again came in at the top of Brown's annual Urban E-Government Study.
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Court allows Fla. voting suit
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that challenges Florida's use of electronic voting machines that lack paper trails.
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Input: Less money for responders
The market research firm expects a slight dip in money for first responders.
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DHS faces IT management challenge, GAO says
The Government Accountability Office says the Homeland Security Department has been slow in establishing management disciplines.
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Va. tech chief to leave
George Newstrom will resign as Virginia's secretary of technology at the end of the week.
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JSTARS flies online
The Air Force will try to connect to the Internet using communications first developed at the dawn of the last century.
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Online Extra: USDA secretary makes e-gov's case to Congress
With a portion of their funding for e-government initiatives at risk, Agriculture Department secretary Ann M. Veneman took the unusual step of taking her agency’s case directly to Congress.
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