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DOD: Contractors here to stay
Military, IT vendors expect Iraqi-like job hazards in future wars
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Homeland security with a regional flavor
The Kansas City Regional Homeland Security Coordinating committee lives up to its name.
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Collaboration makes good neighbors
Economics, homeland security compel states, cities and counties to work together
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IRS unveils latest online app for tax professionals
The tax agency launched a new online form today to speed the turnaround of tax professionals’ applications to become authorized electronic filers.<@SM>
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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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