| Great .gov Web sites |
| These 10 sites show agencies putting the power of the Web to work. |
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| DNS security steps ordered by OMB |
| 08/22/2008 Agencies must implement new DNS Security extension measures on .gov domains and related sites. |
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| The digital LBJ |
| Archivists at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum take on the challenge of converting LBJ’s recorded phone calls from Dictabelt to digital. |
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| Cyber chief argues for new approaches |
| 08/22/2008 STRATCOM commander proposes switch to white listing, more sensors and greater training and accountability in cyber domain. |
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| A tough thing in a small package |
| 08/25/2008 Anybody who needs an extremely rugged, extremely portable computer with a full operating system would get a ton of bang for their buck out of this $2,499 computer. |
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| Report: Lab certifying voting equipment failed to meet requirements |
| 08/26/2008 The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program has accused SysTest Labs of not meeting the program requirements for independent laboratories that certify voting systems. |
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| FCC activates new reporting system |
| 08/25/2008 The online Disaster Information Reporting System gathers sensitive information about communications networks during disasters. |
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| Great state and local sites |
| GCN selects some of the best state and local government Web sites.
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| IPv6 gets a workout at Olympics |
| 08/20/2008 IPv6 is being deployed to handle video surveillance, lighting, heating and traffic management systems in Olympic Park. |
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| Verizon, Google talk mobile search |
| 08/22/2008 Potential deal could simplify mobile phone search options |
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| Tech flaws hobble watch list |
| 08/26/2008 House investigation raises concerns about the design — and future — of an upgrade to the government’s terrorist watch list database. |
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| Best government Web sites: National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus |
| The National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus offers an astounding amount of medical information on a site that is easy to navigate.
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| Scott Vanstone | Cryptography thrown an elliptic curve |
| GCN Interview: One of the inventors of elliptic curve cryptography talks about ECC’s emerging role in providing strong security for public-key infrastructures.
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| Army CIO sets revised course |
| 08/20/2008 Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, the Army’s CIO, is shifting the service’s IT direction, with a particular emphasis on cyber operations. |
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| Computer modeling confirms cause of 9/11 building collapse |
| 08/21/2008 A three-year NIST investigation concludes that it was fire and not explosives or impact from debris that caused the World Trade Center Building 7 building to fall.
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| Best government Web sites: CDC.gov |
| CDC.gov keeps a tight focus on visitor needs with a help page, complete with audio assistance, for navigating the site's many resources, such as health information on everything from workplace conditions to the aging process. |
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| Networks face another switch |
| Now that government network administrators have the IPv6 transition under their belts, a change in another Internet numbering system is under way. |
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| Webmasters must be up to the task |
| One of the government’s biggest advocates for better Web design has been the General Services Administration’s Sheila Campbell, co-chairwoman of the Federal Web Managers Council and leader of the USA.gov Web Best Practices Team at GSA.
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| What makes a Web site work? |
| Information architect Thomas Haller identifies government Web sites that get the job done.
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| User supervision |
| 11/16/2007 GCN Lab Review: Web-content-filtering appliances can keep your employees away from unwanted sites. |
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| Best government Web sites: USA.gov |
| Through relentless improvements and refinements, USA.gov has worked its way into a pre-eminent search service for federal government. |
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| Best government Web sites: Washington's CapStat |
| Washington D.C.'s CapStat tackles broad multiagency goals such as lowering crime and cleaning up the streets. |
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| Best government Web sites: Massachusetts portal page |
| One of the things a Web design team should keep in mind is that the site should be organized in terms of function rather than mirroring the organization behind the site. The Massachusetts Web site is one of the best examples of how to do this.
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| Army cyber ops faces forensic backlog |
| 08/20/2008 Col. Barry Hensley spoke at the 2008 LandWarNet Conference, regarding the challenge of conducting forensic and attribution analysis. |
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| Store more with less |
| Every agency faces a similar storage challenge: Store more data in a smaller space while keeping it easily accessible. Disk arrays provide one way to solve that puzzle. |
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| FCC wants Enhanced 911 service for VOIP calls |
| 08/27/2008 The Federal Communications Commission has started the process for giving IP phone calls Enhanced 911 service. |
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| Video surveillance with 'exception detection' |
| 11/13/2007 The Maryland Transit Administration is adopting advanced video surveillance technology to pinpoint suspicious activities in its rail system. |
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| Security is no secret |
| NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems.
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| Standard-issue security |
| The Committee on National Security Systems is preparing a unified certification and accreditation process for national security systems, that, with the help of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will be extended to all of government. |
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| Best government Web sites: SBA's Business.gov |
| Business.gov has stepped up from being just an outlet for SBA — which runs it in a partnership with 21 other federal agencies — to being the business-facing component for all of government.
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| Vets go the distance |
| A program at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to help prepare injured veterans for careers in information technology and technical support seemed to be a good opportunity to try an online approach. |
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| Best government Web sites: SSA's 'Help With Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs' |
| This site scores consistently higher than every other government Web site surveyed by ACSI. Through a series of questions, the site can determine if a senior citizen is eligible for discounts on medications and, if so, provides an online application the person can submit to SSA. |
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| Web services to the citizen |
| Web sites are reaching out and helping citizens with new topics, and with new services. |
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| Best government Web sites: Cancer.gov |
| Cancer.gov includes descriptions of what cancer is, how to prevent it, how to treat it, and how to screen for it — all of it in simple, easy-to-understand language. |
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| With e-voting, Broward County election results were slow—but chadless |
| 11/15/2002 The Nov. 5 election in Broward County, Fla., went more smoothly than the Sept. 10 primary or the 2000 presidential election. |
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| Best government Web sites: USGS' Water Science for Schools |
| 08/26/2008 USGS’ educational site on water offers almost everything a student, or anyone else, would ever want to know about the wet stuff. And we mean everything. |
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| Speed 'n' distance |
| GCN Lab Reviews:The 802.11n standard isn’t yet final, but 4 devices show what it can do. |
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| A better way for SOA? |
| Quick: Guess which messaging protocol is best suited for large-scale cloud computing services.
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| Audio preservation: Balancing the new with the tried and true |
| Archivists at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum face a daunting challenge—how to ensure that this historical resource remains available 20, 50 or 100 years from now. |
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| Right to the edge |
| 08/13/2007 GCN Lab Review | As Windows Vista and some new applications create opportunities for split-screen work, you might want to think again about large LCD monitors. |
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| GCN announces Agency Award winners |
| 08/19/2008 Government Computer News has selected 10 agencies whose IT initiatives are being recognized as the best of 2008. |
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| 12 principles of knowledge management |
| 08/20/2008 The Army’s chief information officer, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, presented 12 principles of knowledge management at the LandWarNet conference. |
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| Field testing with first responders |
| Motorola’s design integration group has taken the concept of usability testing beyond the lab walls. |
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| DHS taps Battelle for $500M biodefense job |
| 12/20/2006 DHS has announced that it has awarded a contract to Battelle National Biodefense Institute to manage and operate a new biodefense analysis center at Fort Detrick. |
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| National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners named |
| 08/27/2008 The recipients, who include eBay and the developer of packet technology, will be recognized at the White House Sept. 29. |
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| Best government Web sites: MSPB E-Appeal |
| One way to tell if your site is successful is through the use of metrics, and the Merit Systems Protection Board's E-Appeal site can tout some great ones. |
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| Ghost with the most |
| 08/27/2007 GCN Lab Review | The latest version of Norton Ghost gets a lot friendlier, while still performing first-rate backup and image restoration.
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| Industry urges government to go green |
| 08/13/2008 HP, Intel and Citrix Systems want you to turn off your IT hardware for national Power IT Down Day. |
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| This GIS package layers open source, versatility |
| MapInfo Professional 9.5 offers powerful geographic information system capabilities with open source panache. |
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| NSF makes first grants in ambitious computer research program |
| 08/22/2008 The National Science Foundation has awarded grants worth up to $40 million in the first round of what it expects to be a five-year program to encourage basic research to expand the limits of computer and information science.
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| Google aims to improve enterprise search |
| 08/26/2008 The latest version of Google Search Appliance, an integrated hardware and software device, can index as many as 10 million documents in a single box. |
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