With alert system, Coast Guard finds user expectations grow with functionality
Users now expect to have messages from the Coast Guard’s Alert and Warning System at their fingertips.
Souped-up alert system spreads the word for Coast Guard
Commercial tool from AtHoc provides a standards-based upgrade from the homegrown tools used by the Coast Guard to keep in touch with maritime partners.
First responders connect via DHS online network
The Homeland Security Department hopes 500,000 local, state and federal first responders will join a new online professional network DHS has created for them.
USCIS saves $600K through videoconferencing
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency is saving $600,000 a year by moving its employee training sessions online.
USCIS saves $600K through videoconferencing
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency is saving $600,000 a year by moving its employee training sessions online.
Snazzy printer features could open Pandora's box
Networked printers and multifunction devices have evolved into full-fledged computing devices that could be storing sensitive data, making them a potential vulnerability.
Making printers pay: Ways to lower costs, improve security
As agencies look to cut costs, improve efficiency, go green and improve security — and who isn't these days? — better management of a specific common technology is a tangible, low-hanging fruit that has largely gone ignored.
Predictive analysis has a growing role in government
Predictive analytics, which is being successfully applied to events that can benefit from proactive analysis and actions, will become an increasingly essential capability for government and private-sector organizations, Sybase's Raj Nathan and Joydeep Das write.
iEnvy: Do BlackBerry users need an iPad?
The apps available for Apple's sleek new iPad have many BlackBerry-carrying feds drooling, but BlackBerry also offers a robust, if lesser-known, app store, says GCN Lab Director John Breeden.
Talk about ‘disgruntled’
GCN Lab's Greg Crowe notes that a few simple security tweaks could have prevented a disgruntled ex-employee from meddling with car dealership’s system.
Beware the ides of April
As if the tax season wasn’t already bad enough, phishers are piggybacking on the IRS to deliver their scams. And Conficker still is out there, too.
Virtualization takes wing at Patrick Air Force Base
IT managers at the Air Force's 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base chose IP replication to move terabytes of data from physical servers to a virtual environment.
NASA engineers join Toyota investigation
The Transportation Department, looking into alleged acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles, is getting help from NASA engineers with expertise in electronics and software.
DOD IT nominee lacks military experience, but does that matter?
Teresa Takai's strong information technology and government background are enough to overcome her lack of military experience, industry officials say.
Army aims for better e-mail, ERP services by upgrading infrastructure
Gary Winkler, the Army program executive officer for enterprise information systems, discusses plans for the area processing centers and lessons learned in recent implementations of enterprise resource planning systems.
What to do about that old chestnut, intrusion protection
Who moved the network security cheese? The short answer is the users, writes Dale Meyerrose, a former associate director and CIO for the Director of National Intelligence, now with Harris. Users have more capable and agile IT at home than in the office and have come to expect information on demand and greater mobility.
About Face(book): Marines lift ban on social networking
Marine Corps officials lifted a ban for marines on using social networking Web sites on the service’s non-secret network, according to a memo.
DOD adds satellite connection to network
The Defense Department is now using a connection port from SES World Skies and DRS Technical Services to supplement the Defense Information Network.
Intel unveils high-powered processors
Intel announces 8-core processor.
NSF opens new round of grants for TeraGrid time
The coming round of one-year grants will be the first to participate in the NSF transition of TeraGrid to the next generation of high performance cyber infrastructure, eXtreme Digital.
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