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The White House and the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued an RFI on how to develop a new platform called Expert-net to solicit ideas for solving mission-critical problems.
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Russell George, Treasury inspector general for Tax Administration, explained why the focus at IRS has changed from modernization to security.
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The Pew Research Center survey of 22 countries found that social network use is prevalent around the world. “It’s pretty striking, especially given the fact that this is a pretty young technology,” said Richard Wike,…
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Host John Gilroy discusses the Intelligence Community\'s Intellipedia wiki with the men behind it - Sean Dennehy and Don Burke. December 21, 2010
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The Pulse blog and The Economist report on the broader context of WikiLeaks on State diplomacy in an online world.
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Edward Amoroso, the senior vice president and chief security officer at AT&T, describes the need for greater data leak protection.
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December 20th and December 22nd, 2010 Ms. Coleman is the Chief Information Officer of the U.S General Services Administration
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Information Security reports that a security expert says the Air Force ban of thumb drives will not solve the problem of how to prevent classified leaks, such as in the WikiLeaks incident.
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Just before the end of the year, a significant reorganization coming to GSA’s acquisition leadership. Ed O’Hare, Assistant Commissioner for the Integrated Technology Services (ITS) portfolio, who took the post in March 2009, will retire effective January 15, 2011, according to a memo by Steve Kempf , the commission of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service sent [...]
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Just before the end of the year, a significant reorganization coming to GSA’s acquisition leadership. Ed O’Hare, Assistant Commissioner for the Integrated Technology Services (ITS) portfolio, will retire effective January 15, 2011, according to a memo by Steve Kempf , the commission of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service sent to employees today. Mary Davie, presently the [...]
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Slower-growing trees, dying trees, forest fires, insect infestation, and big changes in where various tree species are dominant are part of a forecast being suggested for southwestern U.S. forests. That\'s if temperature and aridity rise as predicted by the U.S. Geological Survey and other federal researchers. Southwestern forests, they say, may experience all of these changes since they are particularly sensitive to warmer temperatures and increased dryness. They report mountain forests across the Southwest are already experiencing forest die-offs and rapid shifts in the types of trees that live there. From watershed protection and timber supplies to recreation, the researchers warn that such changes in Southwest forest vegetation could have significant effects on a wide range of goods and services.
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A quicker, cheaper technique for scanning molecular databases could put scientists on the fast track to developing new drug treatments. It\'s being developed at the Department of Energy\'s Oak Ridge National Lab. A team of researchers have adapted widely-used existing software to allow supercomputers to sift through immense molecular databases - and pinpoint chemical compounds as potential candidates for new drugs. Team leaders call it the missing link between supercomputers and the huge data available in molecular databases like the Human Genome Project. The translation is critical for the first stages of drug development, in which researchers look for appropriate chemicals that interact with a target in the body, typically a protein. With thousands of known proteins and millions of chemicals as potential drugs, the number of possible combination\'s is astronomical. But with supercomputers, millions of molecules can be processed in a single day.
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A benchtop version of the world\'s smallest battery has been created by a team at Sandia National Lab. Its anode is a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair. The tiny rechargeable, lithium-based battery was formed inside a transmission electron microscope at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a Department of Energy research facility. Researchers say, because nanowire-based materials in lithium ion batteries offer the potential for big improvements in power and energy consumption, investigations into their operating properties should improve new generations of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, laptops and cell phones. An unexpected discovery was that the nanowire rod nearly doubles in length during charging - far more than its diameter increases - disputing a common belief of workers in the field.
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The results are out from CDW\'s annual survey
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