DHS privacy office grapples with RFID, biometrics
There are "real costs in having too much data and keeping it too long," Homeland Security privacy chief Nuala Kelly says.
DHS short of technology to manage its biometric pilots
Homeland Security has more than 60 "stovepiped or loosely coordinated biometric projects,' assistant secretary Stewart Verdery Jr. says. 'We need to develop a vision for collecting, analyzing, storing and exchanging the data."
Biometrics faces interoperability gap
A "huge interoperability gap" separates Defense's biometric standards from longstanding data practices in law enforcement, says Rick Randall of the DOD Biometrics Management Office.
MSN Search debuts today
Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary new search engine is scheduled to go live today in a beta version, signaling a new phase in its competition with Google.
Telecom services converging via IP
Telecommunications carriers big and small have bet their future on IP networking and voice over IP services.
Justice inks security license for 100,000 users
Justice has signed a four-year license for Enterprise Mobile Security Manager software from Senforce Technologies for users departmentwide.
Counterterror data sharing will rely on XML
The Homeland Security Department will tweak the new Data Reference Model to create a data model for the exchange of counterterrorism data.
DOD raises bar on security in space
Designing the Transformational Communications Architecture for the Defense Department's Global Information Grid will take 'stable funding and a stable vision of a common architecture,' the National Reconnaissance Office's Michael P. Regan says.
Microsoft .Net and J2EE coexist nicely
Expert says Microsoft .Net and Java 2 Enterprise Edition have roughly equal market share and will continue to coexist.
Navy puts warfighting first
The war in Middle East is squeezing the Navy's electronic government efforts, deputy Navy Department CIO Robert J. Carey said today.
Defense will promote wide use of NSA's secure data model
The National Security Agency's new technical reference model for securing data on the Global Information Grid is going to become entrenched at the Defense Department and should spread to other agencies and industry.
Military struggles for secure collaboration
The military's Common Access smart card, in the works for almost a decade, now secures physical and logical resource access for more than 3.5 million Defense Department personnel.
IBM: Worm attacks are surging
IBM Corp. has reported a recent surge in network attacks against critical infrastructures of government agencies, telecommunications carriers and utilities.
NSA gives security guidance for Mac OS X
The National Security Agency has posted a 109-page document on how to securely install and run Mac OS X Version 10.3.x.
Energy lab readies for Solaris 10
A global collaboration grid at an Energy Department laboratory will lean on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. and the company's new Solaris 10 operating system to allow data sharing across multiple levels of security and confidentiality.
GPO moving beyond print and Web
Named 1996 inventor of the year by the Intellectual Property Owners Association, Michael L. Wash came to the Government Printing Office in June as the holder of 18 U.S. patents.
Joint forces practice at fighting an urban war
All the military services took part in a war game during which they had to find adversaries in a futuristic, 2015 urban setting where virtual civilians were traveling to work and going to lunch.
Worm attacks surge, IBM says
IBM's Global Business Security Index, based on data from a half-million monitored devices, counted 997 Internet attacks in September, 27 percent more than in July and August.
Building transformational satellites will take 'a generation of people'
DOD's Transformational Communications Architecture will require "standards and technical baselines for space communications that will serve for 15 years."
GIG's next-generation satellites to support comm on the move
Defense Department officials outlined plans for mobile satellite communications that will incorporate commercial syatems.
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