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Computer-based exercise joins U.S., Norway
Sailors aboard a Navy ship conducted a computerbased training exercise last week with Norwegian counterparts thousands of miles away
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Navy assessing intranet outside U.S.
The Navy is conducting a business case analysis to expand NMCI to its installations outside the continental United States
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Responding internationally
International cybercrime attacks on missioncritical government or private computers from across national boundaries is an increasing threat. Can governments respond?
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Building a global web
Pentagon officials hope the Smart Sensor Web, like the World Wide Web, will serve the international community because so many conflicts and peacekeeping efforts have a distinct international flavor.
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Data on demand
The Pentagon is collaborating with five countries on the Smart Sensor Web project, a sweeping effort to weave together the most extensive sensor program across the Defense Department into one World Wide Weblike battlefield system.
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Net diplomacy
It has become a cliche, but it's true: With the explosive growth of the Internet in the past decade, no one does business the same way anymore.
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The limits of Net diplomacy
The Internet may be able to deliver previously banned or unedited information into the heart of repressive regimes, but the effects that information may have are limited.
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DOD tackling global logistics
The armed services are attempting to streamline logistics systems to speed accurate data to warfighters, enhancing their ability to make battlefield decisions
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Internet diplomacy on the rise
The challenge for the State Department is to use the Internet to further its diplomatic mission, according to Ira Magaziner, a former White House adviser
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Europe raising bar on security, privacy
The European Union's eEurope initiative seeks to ensure public trust in the information economy and electronic government
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Europe faces PKI Challenge
Mirroring the Federal PKI Steering Committee's goal of interoperability, European officials will work to unite various publickey infrastructure technologies
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O Canada's e-prowess
While U.S. federal online efforts remain in the formative stage, about half the transactions between Canadians and their government now can be performed online.
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Exposing 'human trade'
The State Department is going online to help fight the international trafficking of human beings.
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New nets heat up Antarctica
Antarctica is a desert on ice. Although the continent holds more than 90 percent of the world's ice, it only averages a few inches of precipitation annually and is one of the least friendly places on Earth for human habitation.
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Site to monitor global slave trade
The State Department is sponsoring a Web site to draw attention to the international crisis of trafficking in human beings
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Treaty portal to get power search
Those seeking treaty information on the State Department's portal will soon find a new search function that will include treaties, compliance, inspection and other data
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Cohen: Superpower status has a downside
Cyberwarfare and other security threats simply come with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen told a group of veterans last week.
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CIA uses technology to reform culture of distrust
Intelligence experts and critics argue that the Internet has turned the notion of 'central intelligence,' as in the Central Intelligence Agency, into an oxymoron.
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Global governments shape e-economy
A report from an international policy and technology consulting firm looked at foreign nations' 'ereadiness' five strengths needed for an economy to function in an IT world
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