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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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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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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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