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Nick Schwellenbach, director of investigations at POGO , joined the DorobekINSIDER to explain the potential impact of a decrease of DoD audits of smaller contracts.
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Google is suing the U.S. government for what it claims is unfairly requiring the Web-based document system it uses to be part of Microsoft.
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GovFresh talks to Dustin Haigler about his decision to leave Manor, Texas, as CIO and join a crowd-sourcing start-up.
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Do you have trouble finding things in the databases at your agency? Jim Helou, vice president of DLT Solutions, joins us with some tips to ease your pain. November 2, 2010
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Patricia Titus, vice president and chief information security officer at Unisys Corporation, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss the level of concern people have over cybersecurity, including the security of electronic health records.
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The pilot facility will demonstrate the scalability of phosphorescent OLED technology and materials. DOE\'s Jim Brodrick explains how it works.
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It will provide continuous cell phone coverage for operational forces in Afghanistan.
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Time is ticking on our government\'s ability to stop cyber terrorism. But the clock may have more ticks than people think.
November 01, 2010 -
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Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado say vegetation likely plays a bigger role in cleaning the atmosphere than was even previously thought. They used genetic studies, and computer modeling to show that deciduous plants absorb about a third more of a common class of air-polluting chemicals than past studies showed. The new study was supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Plants can produce a particular class of oxygenated chemicals to protect themselves from irritants and repel invaders such as insects, similar to the human body\'s production of white blood cells due to an infection. It turns out the chemicals have long-term impacts on the environment and human health. Their research also shows plants can actually adjust their metabolism - absorbing more of the chemicals - as a response to various types of stress.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop alternatives to jet fuel. The agencies will examine the availability of different kinds of feedstocks that could be processed by bio-refineries. Officials say, the development and deployment of alternative fuels is critical to achieving carbon neutral aviation growth by the year 2020. As part of the effort, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the implementation of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (or BCAP). That program reimburses farmers or other producers for the cost of planting and producing eligible renewable biomass crops - up to 75 percent - within specified areas. To further stabilize the cost of jet fuel, the agencies have also entered a five year agreement to develop aviation fuel from forest and crop residues and other \"green\" feedstocks.
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As part of its Deep Learning program, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA) is exploring recent breakthroughs in the ability of machines to learn and assess places and objects. The need for such research is being driven by the vast amount of data that\'s become available to Defense commanders and analysts from new types of sensors. For warfighters, the data has to be quickly and correctly analyzed. Currently, that\'s done by highly trained human operators. But as sensor capabilities expand, DARPA says sophisticated, powerful machines with the ability to imitate, and even surpass, human perceptual capabilities will be needed. They\'re building applications that will allow computers to detect and classify objects and activities. So far, the results hold promise for achieving human-level-or-better analysis.
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Wired and GCN report that cyber attacks have decreased but the actual risk of attacks may not be decreasing.
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Kyle Spector of Third Way explains why a global cyber summit is needed to fight threats to cybersecurity.
November 01, 2010
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