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Navy stovepipes prove resilient

Scores of legacy applications are forcing customers to maintain separate systems that NMCI was intended to replace

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The eye of the storm

Maui-based center shows one approach to information sharing and disaster response

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FEMA's e-gov to-do list

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is the managing partner for the creation of a Web portal for all types of disaster assistance and crisis response, tentatively named DisasterHelp.gov

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GSA to test Web usability

GSA has hired UserWroks Inc. to find out how to improve FirstGov, the federal Web portal

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CSC shuffles IRS prime execs

Lead contractor for IRS? multibillion modernization program brings in new executive

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For the public good

Commercial firms are not the only software developers providing solutions for homeland security

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OPM to revamp job site

Personnel office seeks contractor to share development costs of USAJobs

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Information matters

This special report is designed as a useful starting point for thinking about the challenges and identifying solutions for homeland security.

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Lawmakers to watch A-76 closely

Lawmakers are leery about the Bush administration's proposal to compete 15 percent of the federal jobs considered commercially viable by the end of fiscal 2003

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DOD eyes bandwidth growth

Pete Aldridge says department's vision includes 'unlimited bandwidth with global access'

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Local connectivity

Officials in Arlington County, Va. -- home to the Pentagon, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and 10 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority subway stops -- are working to achieve regional interoperability

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House assails INS systems

Lawmakers: Approval of Sept. 11 terrorists' visas shows agency is 'worse than useless'

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FBI record handling under fire

The FBI's computer systems are 'antiquated,' but it was poor performance by personnel that led to the FBI's failure to disclose more than 1,000 documents to lawyers defending Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Justice Department has concluded

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Tools of the trade

Examples of the kinds of tools the Pacific Disaster Center developed to help emergency managers

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Biological pathogens: Know your enemy

A company's planned Public Health Alert and Response System will be able to detect a pathogen and predict its spread

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FEMA.gov rises to the occasion

While many federal employees were evacuating their offices in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Web team kept working. Within an hour of the terrorist attacks, the agency posted information on its site and updated it around the clock

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Homeland defense steals the show

FOSE vendors talk up solutions, partners

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Latest info scrub worries public interest advocates

The Bush administration has ordered tighter controls on government information that could help terrorists

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The Circuit

Some top technology folks acknowledge that achieving a paperless government will be easier to reach 'in spirit' than in reality

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NMCI passes first tests

Tests of NMCI revealed some initial start-up problems, but they did not raise any significant operational concerns