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Army cyber ops faces forensic backlog
Col. Barry Hensley spoke at the 2008 LandWarNet Conference, discussing conducting forensic and attribution analysis.
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Convention to feature Microsoft tools
Democratic convention adds Microsoft tools to its IT platform.
Army CIO sets revised course
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, the Army’s CIO, is shifting the service’s IT direction, with a particular emphasis on cyber operations.
IPv6 gets a workout at Olympics
IPv6 is being deployed to handle video surveillance, lighting, heating and traffic management systems in Olympic Park.
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Tech Briefs
General Dynamics to develop combat key generator
The CKG, a reprogrammable encryption-key generator, will work with existing and next-generation information assurance products and equipment used in military vehicles, aircraft and ships.
Google search for government
Panasas updates storage offerings
Cloud computing for government
Layer 3 support for PDAs
GCN Tech Blog
Privacy and sensor networks
The proliferation of sensor networks will yield a gaggle of privacy issues that must be addressed.
The BPM and SOA marriage
Spy vs. spy on display at State
IT consolidation best practices
Searching for the best government Web sites
GCN Lab Review
No-nonsense printing
Xerox Phaser 3250DN laser printer falls short at printing graphics and text over graphics.
Tech Trends
Paul Scheihing | DOE wants more of less
The technology manager of the Energy Department’s Industrial Technologies Program discusses the government’s current and future energy-saving plans.
GCN Interviews index
Secrets of optimization
How a few well-placed tweaks can greatly improve database performance.
SQL Server 2008 makes performance tweaking easier
SQL Server administrators optimizing their databases will have some new tools when Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008 next month.
Networked prints
The Army has installed a centralized system to control access to buildings and networks at Hunter Army Airfield and Fort Stewart in Georgia.
Commentary
UCore's giant leap
A key group of chief information officers is pushing the boundaries of consensus building and galvanizing the federal information technology community. More
A sharing solution
Federated identity management holds the key to gathering and integrating data across government. More
XML: The good, the bad and the bloated
Reap the benefits of XML tagging while keeping bloated files to a minimum. More
GCN Lab Review: MapInfo Pro 9.5
MapInfo Professional 9.5 is a serious geographic information system that lets you map layers of transportation data, school districts, landmarks, water features, topography, and many other data sets.
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GCN Lab TV index
Staying on track with ERP
GCN will present Susan Keen, technical director of the Enterprise Resource Planning program with the Department of the Navy, in an eSeminar at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28 discussing the Navy’s success with the largest public sector ERP system launch on record.
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Riding the data consolidation wave
GCN will present John Edgar, manager of the U.S. Postal Service’s Network Operations Business Solutions portfolio, in an eSeminar at 2 p.m. Sept. 10, discussing the agency’s success with data consolidation.
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