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In her position as the Deputy Chief Cybersecurity Advisor at National Institute of Standards and Technology -- part of Donna Dodson\'s job is to coordinate NIST priorities.
Teri Elniski of EMC\'s Data computing products division explains how you can deal with all that information in your databases.
Gwynne Kostin, director of Mobile, Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies of GSA, explains how employees can overcome some of the biggest challenges to mobile technologies.
The IRS says it would never reach out to taxpayers via email. So if you receive and email from the IRS it\'s a fake.
Could the National Information Exchange Model help spread semantic technology throughout government?
Dave Patterson is the executive director of the National Defense Business Institute at the University of Tennessee, College of Business Administration. In his role, he helps students understand the appropriate method for implementing IT acquisition. March 29, 2011
Technologies developed for federal government may have been used to \"harm U.S. citizens on behalf of clients in the private sector.\"
NASA\'s internal computer network is full of holes and vulnerable to a cyberattack, an audit by the Office of the Inspector General has found.
The Pentagon wants servicemen and women to use their own smartphones to develop apps and access the military\'s networks. Senior officials as early as next month will approve the technical standards for devices that run the Apple and Google operating systems.
The Army is working on keeping deployed soldiers connected to each other - and to the network using commercial, off the shelf technology in smartphones. The Multi Access Cellular Extension program is developing phones that can operate securely on cellular data networks around the world or on Wi-Fi hotspots. If neither of those are available, the phones will be designed to form their own local network and keep soldiers in a small unit at least connected to each other. The army wants the devices to handle voice, data, and specialized military apps.
The FBI is beginning to replace its fingerprint identification system with a next-generation version that will dramatically speed up the time it takes to link prints to an identity. The agency says the next generation identification system reached initial operating capability this month at its Clarksburg, West Virginia information services facility. For high-priority prints, it\'ll be able to find a match in as little as ten minutes - compared to the two hours required for a ten-fingerprint match using the previous generation IAFIS system.
The FAA has been studying whether tablet devices can replace paper aeronautical charts in the cockpits of planes. And for at least one charter jet company, the answer is yes. The agency has given the go-ahead to a large executive aircraft operator to use iPads equipped with a special app to display charts to pilots electronically through all phases of flight. The decision follows three months of testing - including an in-flight decompression test at 50-thousand feet - in which the device held up just fine.
The idea is based on automation, interoperability and authentication. DHS hopes this 3-tier approach could make networks more secure.
OPM\'s list comes as the president has called for the hiring of 100,000 more people with disabilities by 2015.
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