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Makeshift control towers guide rescue planes
The FAA used its ingenuity to create control towers that allowed thousands of planes to land in hurricane-devastated areas.
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Coast Guard tech situation improving
The Coast Guard has regained most of its IT capabilities along the Gulf Coast.
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DOD satellite systems boost Gulf cell coverage
In an unusual step, the Pentagon is using military satellite systems to help improve cell phone coverage in the Gulf Coast states.
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New York transportation group awards security contract
The New York's transportation authority has selected a Lockheed Martin-led team to upgrade the authority’s electronic security infrastructure.
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IT helps limit flight delays
FAA officials say they had appropriate communication capacity to reroute air traffic last week and are prepared for this week’s challenges.
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HHS seeks volunteers for Katrina disaster relief
The agency has created a Web site for medical professionals and IT and communications personnel with experience in health care IT who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts.
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California struggles with change
The California Performance Review, modeled after the Bush administration's management agenda, is still a work in progress one year later.
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Red Cross works to restore communications at shelters
Red Cross CIO Steve Cooper says the organization is working to restore communications with its 300 shelters in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Outdated hospital bed system hampers Katrina relief effort
The National Disaster Medical System relies on phone calls and faxes to gather information about available beds following disasters.
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911 wiped out in many areas
Rescue workers say there is no communications infrastructure in some areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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State legislatures back health IT for Medicaid
National Conference of State Legislatures support push for expanding health information technology to Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and sick.
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DHS, Navy and MCI deploy mobile command posts to Gulf Coast
Mobile communications vans are being deployed to the hurricane battered Gulf Coast to fill in telecom gaps.
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Navy sends understaffed hospital ship to ravaged Gulf Coast
The USNS Comfort will sail Saturday with only enough medical personnel to staff 250 of the ship's 1,000 hospital beds.
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DISA marshals support for Katrina relief operations
The agency is sending satellite communications resources to the Gulf Coast.
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New Orleans radio system flooded
State police bar entry of radio repair technicians to city.
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DHS official heads federal response to Hurricane Katrina
Michael Brown, the undersecretary of DHS's Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, was named to coordinate the fed response to Hurricane Katrina.
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DISA Louisiana megacenter closed in wake of hurricane
The Defense Information Systems Agency said its data processing megacenter in Slidell, La., will be closed until this Friday in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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FEMA gets Hurricane Katrina help from unlikely place
FEMA taps the National Interagency Fire Center for radios and frequencies to support disaster relief efforts.
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Army systems to support Katrina disaster relief
The Army has deployed three disaster coordination teams equipped with satellite communications to help relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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