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State: Tech upgrades will speed visas
GAO says visas for foreign science scholars take too long, but the State Department says it's improving its systems to accelerate the process.
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Analysis skill needed, experts say
State and local agencies are unable to analyze information related to homeland security, said panelists at an AFCEA conference.
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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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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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Oregon city builds P2P network
Medford is deploying an IP-based broadband network for first responders and other government agencies.
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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.
Digital Government
Privacy on the state side
The National Association of State CIOs released a guide to help state officials deal with common privacy challenges.
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Homeland security directors want improved communications
States must do a better job of communicating strategies, officials said.
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U.S., Mexico expand border lanes
New border security measures include expansion of dedicated electronic commuter and commercial lanes.
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Illinois governor plots better IT
Merging state police functions will allow Illinois to buy new information systems or enhance existing ones, Gov. Rod Blagojevich says.
Modernization
W3C adopts DARPA language
The standards body for the World Wide Web approved a DARPA-developed markup language as an international standard.
Digital Government
Energy, EPA join computing efforts
Supercomputers in North Carolina will be linked with Sandia National Laboratory.
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GAO finds bioterror protection gaps
States are still not fully prepared to respond to bioterrorism or other public health threats, according to a Congressional investigation.
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Maryland to boost communication
State homeland security officials plan to increase communication between their offices and local governments to fix gaps in information, funding and understanding.
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Georgia to build state VPN
The Georgia Technology Authority this week released a request for proposal for a new statewide virtual private network.
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Vendor briefing set for antiterrorist R&D
A federal program overseeing research for technologies to combat terrorism will prerelease two broad agency announcements.
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