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A place to share success stories
Several agencies are working with the Knowledge Management Professional Society to offer other agencies a community of practice about communities of practice
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Defense CIO decries bandwidth expense
Technical constraints, largely in the area of bandwidth, are preventing network centricity from becoming a reality, the military's chief information officer said last week.
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Bandwidth in Iraq a subject of debate
Some commanders had plenty to spare, others not nearly enough during recent operations
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VA official promotes integration
The undersecretary for memorial affairs at the VA spoke at the Executive Leadership Conference.
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DISA takes another crack at GIG-BE fiber
The Defense Information Systems Agency will recompete parts of the fiber-optic cable portion of the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program because it did not issue all the contracts in September.
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Group: Security hurt by Microsoft monopoly
Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market presents the government with serious security risks, a group warned
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OPM survey to gauge telework progress
Office of Personnel Management officials issued their annual survey as part of the agency's effort to measure the status of the federal telework program.
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TSA contracts for airport access control
In an effort to secure airports themselves, not just departing flights, the Transportation Security Administration awarded a contract last week to Unisys Corp. to identify technology that can be used to control access to airport facilities.
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Industry at odds over architecture groups
A new committee launched this month by leading defense contractors and aimed at forging an open architecture and standards to ensure that future battle systems can communicate more effectively could also stop Boeing Co.'s ambition to form a similar working group, industry insiders said.
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FBI uses Convera for searching terror data
The company will get $1.5 million to provide RetrievalWare for searching counterterrorism and intelligence data.
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DOD to launch mini-satellites
The Defense Department will launch a small, relatively inexpensive experimental tactical satellite capable of supporting specific missions early next year.
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An outlet for expertise
The hardest part of knowledge management is not pulling together information stored in desk drawers or hard drives but getting to the information that people carry in their heads
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SpecOps doles out optical tag contracts
U.S. Special Operations Command awarded four R&D contracts worth $57.8 million to develop small, thin, long-range optical retroreflecting tags.
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Good show, Mr. Polski
A key figure in the technological development of the Transportation Security Administration's airport security devices last week received a Service to America Medal, also known as a SAMMIE
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Leading-edge business intelligence
As federal agencies deploy data warehouses and other business intelligence tools, they might want to also investigate two emerging trends that promise to shake up traditional business intelligence
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E-learning covers people skills
The Center for Veterinary Medicine's e-learning program teaches collaboration skills, in addition to technical know-how.
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GAO questions E-Authentication timetable
The General Services Administration’s timetable for building a gateway for the E-Authentication project is unrealistic, the General Accounting Office said.<br><@SM>
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USPS offers free postmarking app for Word
Citizens and businesses now can use the Postal Service’s electronic postmark capability to digitally sign and apply date and time stamps to Microsoft Word documents.<br>
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