Digital formats not optimal for fingerprint matching
Standardized digital formats for fingerprint minutiae don't perform as well in matching fingerprints as do proprietary formats, according to test results from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
FCC's new homeland security unit
The Federal Communications Commission's new Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will oversee disaster management, spectrum licensing for public safety agencies, 911 call centers, and alert and warning communications.
McNamara named head of key intelligence program
President Bush has named Thomas McNamara to be program manager of the Information Sharing Environment, a critical component of the Office of the National Director of Intelligence, the White House has announced.
Energy labs test grid for monster downloads
Two Energy Department laboratories, along with a number of universities, tested a grid network that will eventually distribute experimental data from the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva to multiple research laboratories around the globe.
USPS adds international feature to Mailing Online
The Postal Service is expanding the capabilities of its Mailing Online program to let customers use the service for international deliveries.
Bill to give feds electronic health records gathers support
Federal employees could be the largest group to test the advantages an electronic health record could provide, according to Rep. Jon Porter, who is sponsoring a bill to make the government a chief user of this technology.
Grid at last?
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IG: Energy Department lost computer equipment
At least 18 pieces of 'computer processing equipment,' including at least one laptop, are missing from the Energy Department's Office of Intelligence (IN), and department officials do not know whether any of it was used for or contained classified information, according to a new report from DOE's inspector general.
Alion wins Navy joint operations training work
The U.S. Joint Forces Command will rely on Alion Science and Technology Corp. to carry out research and development of technologies to improve simulation and training for joint operations.
Army officials expect busy spring for IT contracts
The Army plans to award a number of high-value IT procurement contracts within the next four to eight weeks for satellite services, hardware and software and to modernize their infrastructure, according to senior officials.
Interior hires Oberthur for HSPD-12 cards
The Interior Department has awarded Oberthur Card Systems a multiyear contract to provide smart cards for all their employees.
VIRTUAL SPACE: Crypto Cool
The National Security Agency has introduced on its Web site a gang of hip cartoon characters that it hopes will entice kids into the field of covert data analysis'or at least play some fun educational word games.
PACKET RAT: CrackBerry ruling is just preciousssss
While much of America was waiting to see who would wear what for the Oscars, a certain subset of the population had something else entirely on their minds.
Evans, Barksdale honored
Karen Evans, OMB administrator for e-government and IT, received the 2006 government Azimuth Award; she's flanked by PostNewsweek Tech Media editor-in-chief Tom Temin, left, and OMB deputy director for management Clay Johnson III, who introduced Evans for the award.
The GCN Best of FOSE 2006
Judges from GCN and sister publication Washington Technology examined roughly 200 nominated products to name 13 GCN Best of FOSE winners and two grand-prize Best of Show winners.
A look back at FOSE 2006
Thousands of feds took to the floor for the 30th edition of FOSE.
In the trenches of the CIO Wargame
I recently found out what it really means when a CIO's IT projects' risks outweigh their rewards.
For DIA, interoperability begins with the data
The intelligence community is moving beyond collaborative applications to achieve interoperability across its agencies with the help of a service-oriented architecture.
HSPD-12 Web site to post vendor products in approval queue early
The General Services Administration is tweaking an existing Web site to give agencies a preview of products being evaluated that could help them comply with the presidential mandate.
GSA issues governmentwide guidance on telework
The General Services Administration issued official guidance for agencies as they implement telework arrangements for their employees.
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