DOD cancels plans for overseas Internet voting
The Pentagon has pulled the plug on an Internet voting program scheduled for this year's presidential election because of concerns about the system's security.<br>
Yoran ready to ditch PADC for successor
The Homeland Security Department is considering alternatives to its year-old Patch Authentication and Dissemination Capability, which has failed to generate much agency interest.<br>
OMB: Focus on cybersecurity before new projects
The Office of Management and Budget has told 18 agencies not to develop, modernize or enhance IT systems until their cybersecurity problems are fixed.<br>
FirstGov touted as model for collaboration
The FirstGov portal is a model of successful public-private partnership, a New York research center said in a study.<br>
Export-Import Bank selects new CIO
Fernanda Young, CIO of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will become the next CIO at The Export-Import Bank.<br>
Clark: The future of the Navy lies in integration
The chief of Naval Operations foresees a Navy that needs fewer people to accomplish its mission as it relies more on speed and agility.<br>
OMB: E-Gov cooperation starts right here
Tad Anderson, OMB's associate administrator for e-government and IT, said his office must communicate better with Congress about the benefits of the IT reform agenda.<br>
Online extra: Defense budget focuses on transformation
Budget plan places a strong emphasis on science, technology, readiness and training.
DisplayMate benchmarks project the best and the worst in DLPs
For this review, the GCN Lab generated images on each digital-light-processing projector and used image benchmarks from DisplayMate Technologies Corp. of Amherst, N.H., to pinpoint flaws in image uniformity, white saturation, and color consistency and accuracy.
Tiny DLPs are powerhouse image projectors
Presenters used to dream of tucking the equivalent of a small movie theater under their arm and walking to the next meeting.Today, LCD and digital-light-processing projectors make that fantasy a reality. As DLPs continue to gain on their larger and generally brighter LCD cousins, look for more presenters to pack ever-tinier projectors that deliver stunning images.
USGS library puts data reserves on tap
Information requests at the Geological Survey's National Energy Research Seismic Library in Denver used to generate a tale of the tape.'We spent a lot of time physically packing and shipping the tapes to users,' said Frederick N. Zihlman, a physical scientist with the USGS energy team.
The lowdown on the DVD jukebox
<b>What is it?</b> A DVD jukebox is a peripheral storage device used to house and access hundreds of data DVDs.<b>When do I need one?</b> If you store large quantities of data for long periods of time, and access to the data is important, a DVD jukebox could be valuable.
What's on the jukebox? Everything
A DVD has a lot to offer as a storage option. It's durable and long-lasting, good for long-term archiving, and it lets you find data quickly without rewinding tape media. You can write permanently, with no modification or alteration possible, or update continually.
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<b>Iraqi backbone</b>. The Agency for International Development has awarded a $1.8 billion contract for reconstruction efforts in Iraq that include restoring damaged fiber-optic backbones in war-torn areas.
Florida CIO Bahrami resigns
Florida CIO Kim Bahrami today announced she is stepping down from her post effective Feb. 27. A replacement has not been named.
Senator calls for mandatory reporting of viruses
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the Homeland Security Department's virus alert system is flawed and called for a centralized plan for government response to cyberthreats.
Osterholz to retire from DOD
John Osterholz, the Defense Department's director of architectures and operability, has announced he will retire in early March, Defense officials said.
Common Access Card ready for update
Now that the Defense Department is issuing the last of its first-generation Common Access Cards, the inevitable upgrade cycle is under way.Mary Dixon, director of the Common Access Card Office at the Defense Manpower Data Center, said the second-generation smart cards may be ready as early as this fall for new entrants and replacement of lost, stolen or worn-out cards.
In-Q-Tel buys monitoring app
In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, has negotiated a license for event detection and response software that tracks information in multiple databases
@Info.Policy: Can FTC really can spam?
If you have an e-mail address, you are likely a spam recipient. At the end of 2003, my spam count was 150 to 200 messages per day. That's about the time Congress passed the 2003 Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act. Today's question is whether Can-Spam is likely to be enforced.
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