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DHS integration: Who's doing what

Officials at the Homeland Security Department aren't tackling information technology infrastructure as a single, global integration project, but instead have delegated a series of integration tasks to contractors.

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Georgia to build student data system

The goal is to develop a system that will extract the XML-compliant student data from the local school district systems.

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Pentagon nixes Internet voting

Questions about security linger

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Privacy safeguard proves elusive

Agencies still just starting to design machine-readable privacy policies

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Federal track record

How will the government's IT infrastructure be viewed four years from now?

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Deal awarded for DOD, FBI security plan

Knowledge Consulting Group will update security guidelines, identify potential security lapses and provide support.

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Air Force closer to enterprise buy

Service looking at deal with Microsoft

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DOD practices prevention through IT

New system promises breakthroughs in use of medical information

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Others also standing guard

A cybersecurity early warning system that comes out of the National Cyber Security Summit task force deliberations will not stand alone.

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Silicon Valley firms test fed waters

Five start-ups hope to pique interest in their IT solutions

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Spam-free diet

Forget Atkins, never mind South Beach. Here's your guide to a spam-free diet

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Process re-engineering back again

Business process re-engineering, an approach to automation that had fallen out of favor for being too unwieldy, is gaining new credence with the integration of the Homeland Security Department.

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Postal bonuses: Paid on delivery

USPS ties incentives to service standards, cost cutting

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DARPA awards network security deal

Computer Systems Center Inc. will get $8.7 million to study the feasibility of dynamic network security access.

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DHS proposal seeks HR flexibility

New regs would link pay, performance and create occupational clusters

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Changing the odds

We have heard many times from government officials that the war on terror is unlike any war this nation has fought.

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Security vendor caters to new mission

Terry Flyntz is counting on one thing when it comes to selling technology to the federal government ? the fear that people can't be trusted.

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Don't overlook preventive measures, expert warns

Patrick McBride, chief technology officer and co-founder of META Security Group, thinks the government and industry are in danger of missing the forest for the trees if a cybersecurity early warning system focuses only on potential threats.

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Justice CIO assembles tech squad

Five new managers zero in on agency systems

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Looking for trouble

Proposed early warning system gets new push, but big challenges remain