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DHS to weigh science goals

Fiscal 2005 will be a year of balancing priorities for the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, Undersecretary Charles McQueary said.

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Montana puts vehicle data online

Information from the Motor Vehicle Division is often requested by banks, credit unions, car dealers and other organizations.

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Parties differ on homeland security

Democrats say there are gaps in homeland security. Republicans say improvements have been made.

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OPM leads feds in e-payments

The Office of Personnel Management made 99.7 percent of its payments to vendors electronically in December.

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Army, Homeland Security plan for unmanned aerial vehicles

The Army expects to spend $2.3 billion on UAVs by 2011. DHS wants to spend $10 million to test UAVs next year.

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NCI hires ex-Army IT expert

The Army official who helped launched the first Joint Tactical Radio System procurement will be a senior vice president at NCI Information Systems.

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Davis: Expect strict oversight of US-VISIT

The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee pledged to keep a close eye on the visitor tracking system.

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Arizona, New Mexico collaborate on homeland security

Their governors signed a five-year pact to share information.

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Many still can't take electronic FOIA

Almost half of all major federal departments can't accept Freedom of Information requests electronically.

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Homeland Security network starts

The Homeland Security Information Network is an important step for cooperation among federal, state and local agencies, officials said.

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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