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Disaster modeling and simulation

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Cleared for access

State Department readies smart-card rollout to employees

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DOD keeps vendors on their toes

Middleware vendors may have a hard time with the Defense Department's approach to its Common Access Card procurement

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DOD cracks smart-card nut

Middleware contracts should boost smart-card versatility, interoperability

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Models of mayhem

The government wants to simulate the ripple effects of critical infrastructure attacks

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Defense U. targets e-gov

The National Defense University has begun a master's-level certification program designed to forge e-government leaders

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Air Force pact builds global net

Northrop Grumman wins contract to build Global Transportation Network 21, which will track people and cargo in near-real time

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Army WIN-T takes tech on the road

Mobile IP lets users stay connected to roaming, mobile network

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From lab to landing zone

About the Defense Department's Language and Speech Exploitation Resources (LASER) team

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DISA expands antivirus offerings

DISA recently awarded three vendor teams contracts to enhance the protection of everything from desktops to wireless devices

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Intercepts

Bringing EDS Down; Tell Us What You Really Think; A Broad Audience

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DARPA explores self-healing system

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Measuring up

An office has used the mobile nature of its workforce to build strategies designed to measure the impact of telecommuting on productivity

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Radio deal to increase compatibility

The Justice and Treasury departments will spend up to $3 billion during the next five years to buy 30,000 compatible radios

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Leading the way

Stephen Hawald takes on modernization at the Education Department

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Tools help pinpoint the right words

Audio-mining technologies create indexes of audio files using words or speech sounds

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Site keeps feds on legislative track

Gallery Watch.com provides up-to-the-minute information about what lawmakers plan to do

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Tools you can use

Easier-to-use interfaces are a top priority as IT grows in sophistication

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Challenging propositions

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Five agencies soup up their Web sites to load fast

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ main page loaded in less than half a second. Sites run by the FBI, the Supreme Court, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Library of Congress were just slightly slower, all taking less than a second to pop up. The FBI site has been among the fastest on the Web for almost a year, according to Keynote Systems Inc. of San Mateo, Calif.