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Offshoring could impact military defense systems

It seemed like a smart move at the time--outsourcing and offshoring government software development to save money--but now Uncle Sam is reviewing the decision and the impact it could have down the

Fed's cyber attack drill identifies holes

In the late winter of this year the federal government held a mock-attack exercise to test its cyber security programs. While the results weren't sterling, Homeland Security officials are claiming

US military working on a new network system

Uncle Sam and a slew of university tech leaders and corporate vendors are collaborating on a project to build a new network providing military-level security for the routing and sharing of data

The golden rule in handling data requests

Imagine the federal government knocking on the CEO's door asking for a list of clients or data files on specific partners, claiming it was needed for homeland security efforts. It's not that

Need for speed spurs Federal computing investment

The federal government is turning its attention, and its money, to supercomputing. The government hopes to build supercomputers that break the current barriers in terms of computing speed, far

New federal agency security mandates

It's not surprising, given the rash of mobile device thefts containing personal and confidential information at Federal agencies, that Uncle Sam wants something done to prevent further incidents.

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>Free developer tools from IBM will shore up security. Article >Why Web

Uncle Sam wants tech solutions

The U.S. intelligence community, along with a few other federal agencies, wants to go digital in a big way--converting the tons of paper-based information it has collected and parsing it into

ALSO NOTED: Latest Microsoft patch hurts Siebel client; Rootkit threat grows; and much more...

> The lowdown on software-as-a-service. Article > Latest Microsoft patch hurting Siebel client software.

Uncle Sam holding back telco advances?

The U.S. is lagging when it comes to telecommunications technology, and according to a new report, you can blame the federal government. Uncle Sam, it seems, hasn't done enough to spur and spark