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Sprehe: Politicizing the Archives

Has President Bush made NARA a political football?

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DOD decentralizes Wi-Fi

Several agencies have a role in DOD?s new wireless policy.

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Getting an instant response

FAA turns to automation to address Web site users' inquiries

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DHS funds think tank

Analytic Services has been hired to run the Homeland Security Institute.

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Stenbit advises Cryptek

John Stenbit, former CIO for the Defense Department, joined network security firm Cryptek's board of advisors.

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Project Safecom going nowhere fast, GAO says

A government initiative to improve communications among first responders at the federal, state and local levels “has made very limited progress,” the General Accounting Office contends.

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Big Easy watches wirelessly

New Orleans' wireless video surveillance system is one of the first such citywide systems in the country.

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DHS alert closes router holes

Using the National Cyber Alert System, DHS officials warned Internet backbone operators of newly found vulnerabilities.

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FEMA to test continuity plans

An exercise next month will show well 45 federal departments and agencies fare with their continuity of operations plans.

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DOD hires modernization boss

The Defense Department named Paul Tibbits director of the Business Modernization and Systems Integration Program Office.

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BMC2 award coming soon

Industry officials expect that Air Force officials will soon issue a request for proposals for the Battle Management Command and Control system.

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GAO rules out feds' A-76 appeals

But the General Accounting Office said regulations should be changed to let federal employees appeal agency decisions to contract their work to businesses.

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EA is the IT tie that binds

As director of the enterprise architecture practice of High Performance Technologies Inc., a systems integration and IT consultancy in Reston, Va., Ira Sachs helps government agencies design blueprints for integrating their systems.

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States feel info blitz

State officials say they still get homeland security alerts from far too many federal sources.

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Air Force chooses radar software architects

Industry teams led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each received $220 million to study Space Based Radar system and software architectures.

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White House to e-gov vendors: Give us your best

Officials presented their visions for common e-gov solutions in the financial management, grants management and human relations business lines

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Ridge, Powell back extensions of biometric passport deadline

The two secretaries urged Congress to give visa-waiver countries more time to build biometric features into their passports.

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Contracts planned for ERA design

Federal officials expect to award two contracts by early fall for the design phase of the Electronic Records Archives.

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DHS needs asset info

A national inventory of critical homeland security assets remains incomplete, but more money or personnel wouldn't speed up the process, an official said.

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Report says federal tech spending will grow slowly

New forecast says federal information technology spending will reach $80.7 billion in fiscal 2009. <@SM>