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Security funding foiled by politics
The Clinton administration is urgently seeking a 15 percent increase in funding for critical infrastructure protection initiatives in its fiscal 2001 budget, but its request is being blocked by electionyear politics and partisan paralysis, according to experts.
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Feds digitize spread of West Nile virus
USGS has launched a hightech surveillance effort to track the spread of the virus using stateoftheart mapping and geographic information systems
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Pentagon to outsource network ops
DOD plans this year to outsource support for more than 7,000 desktop users and consolidate all Pentagon network operations and security support with a single vendor
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Security education in crisis
Educators warn that IT whiz kids lack adequate training, education and professional discipline to handle information security
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Portrait of a displaced Navy intranet worker
When the Navy awards its longawaited N/MCI contract in September, it will substantially alter the government careers of nearly 2,000 IT workers
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DOD reining in software buys
The Defense Department has approved a draft version of a policy that would direct the DOD information technology community to first consider using existing Pentagon programs for all commercial software purchases before orchestrating major acquisitions.
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Navy reaps savings with biz tool
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Newport, R.I., has saved as much as $1.5 million a year as a result of a business intelligence program that has helped the agency eliminate unneeded paper and personnel and redundant data entry costs, according to officials at the center.
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N/MCI: Buyers beware
Had the Navy opted to conduct a pilot of its proposed mega-intranet, users at the Naval Air Systems Command would have been forced to pay more than 50 percent more per seat during the first year than the estimated average cost during the first year of the contract, according to a Navy report to Congress issued late last month.
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House targets spy center in Cuba
In political fallout from the Elian Gonzalez saga, the House passed a bill that calls for Russia to shut down a massive listening post in Cuba
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NSA finds one of its own in industry
The National Security Agency director last week nominated William Black Jr., a retired NSA employee who started a new career in the hightech industry, to become the agency's next deputy director
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NSA posts declassified intelligence from Korean War
The National Security Agency has setup a World Wide Web site where it plans to post newly declassified documents outlining the triumphs and pitfalls of signals intelligence known as SIGINT during the Korean War
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Intercepts
My mobile receiving station parked outside the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md., reports that a woman will be leading the first effort to roll out the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.
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FAA, Customs testing drug sniffer
Security officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Customs Service are testing a new document scanner that can detect minute traces of illicit narcotics on airline passenger boarding passes.
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ACLU: Block FBI e-snoops
The American Civil Liberties Union appealed to Congress last week to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures on the Internet in light of recent revelations that a new monitoring tool could enable the FBI to intercept the email of lawabiding citizens.
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Navy zooms in on imagery intelligence
Technology that has delivered highdefinition television to tens of thousands of 'Monday Night Football' fans may soon furnish the military with digital imagery intelligence.
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Intell turf battles rage
Major portions of a bill that would authorize appropriations for the U.S. intelligence community would significantly limit the Defense Department's ability to support military operations, warn Defense Secretary William Cohen and his top military adviser.
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A war, not a battle
Intelligence experts characterized the latest report on the bill from the House Armed Services Committee as little more than a tool in the struggle for control over the intelligence budget between the House and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).
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