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Digital Government
Web extra: Q&A with Marianne Bailey
Marianne Bailey, director of the Unified Cross Domain Management Office, discusses technologies to improve information sharing among Defense and intelligence community agencies.
Digital Government
Defense in a wiki world
Military and intelligence agencies look to harness the data-sharing power of new technologies while keeping the risks at bay.
Cybersecurity
FBI's billion-dollar biometric plan
The FBI launched a multibillion-dollar upgrade to its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System: Next Generation Identification project.
Digital Government
The FBI's expanding data center
The Criminal Justice Information Services division upgrades a 100,000-square-foot data center with thousands of miles of cables while providing around-the-clock services to its crime-fighting customers.
Digital Government
Air Force tests new broadband IT
The Air Force's Cyber Command sponsored tests of the Tactical Targeting Network Technology for air-to-ground broadband communications.
Digital Government
Pentagon tweaks MASINT methods
The Defense Department has issued new directives on how it builds Measurement and Signature Intelligence projects, which typically use advanced systems to glean data from merged sensor information.
Cybersecurity
DHS unveils foreign-passenger screening system
Electronic System for Travel Authorization will automate and expedite DHS data checking of travelers from visa-waiver countries who are coming to the United States.
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Cybersecurity
Physical device recognition to the rescue
Hardware fingerprinting technology migrates from fighting software piracy to shielding infrastructure.
Digital Government
Open source, proprietary codes include similar mistakes
A two-year study of more than 55 million lines of code showed that open-source systems include a variety of errors that closely track those found in software written for proprietary systems.
Cybersecurity
SANS contributes funds, expertise to global cybersecurity group
SANS Institute has announced a $1 million contribution to the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism and is sharing technical information with the organization.
Management
New IA centers to receive grants, scholarships
DHS and the NSA jointly unveiled the first group of universities chosen as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research.
Cybersecurity
HSPD-12 gets a fair deal
2008 GCN Technology Leadership Award winner Mike Butler draws on ID card experience.
Cybersecurity
Tax rebates spawn new school of phishing
Social engineering ploy tricks computer users into divulging personal information that cybercriminals use to bilk unwary taxpayers.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers question PASS card security
In letters circulating in Congress, members of the House Homeland Security and Judiciary committees have pressed DHS and State to improve PASS card security.
Cybersecurity
PASS cards' memory in dispute
Critics claim DHS overlooked more secure optical memory for border cards.
