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DHS seeks efficiency with automated watchlist

The failed bombing attempts in New York City and aboard a U.S. flight to Detroit has sparked concern over Uncle Sam's watchlisting system.

Tags: Watchlist Service , WLS , DHS , Department of Homeland Security , FBI , Terrorist Screening Center , TSC , Collaboration Center ,

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The new 'in' crowd uses Foursquare

Move over Facebook and Twitter, there's a new social media competitor making its way through the federal government.

Tags: FourSquare , Facebook , twitter , social media , Government Computer News , Treasury Department , State Department , mobile , Collaboration Center ,

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A bright 'idea' from DOT

The Transportation Department is hoping a new idea drives employees down the Information Superhighway toward better collaboration.

Tags: IdeaHub , Ray Lahood , Department of Transportation , DOT , Collaboration Center , technology

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GSA SLAMs IT

Coleman says group hugs are important. Essentially, you've got to get everybody in that room so that they're part of it. That is collaboration. We learn more from Casey Coleman, CIO at GSA

Tags: Federal Drive , technology , management , Casey Coleman , SLAM , GSA ,

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Toxins prove good medicine for collaboration

The Tox21 collaboration merges federal agency resources (research, funding and testing tools) to develop ways to more effectively predict how chemicals will affect human health and the environment. We get details from Robert Kavlock of the EPA.

Tags: management , interagency cooperation , Tox21 , EPA , Robert Kavlock

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Algorithms help the Navy with Collaboration

A ton of work to do with limited resources -- it's a common challenge facing many government agencies, including the Navy.

Tags: Navy's Program Executive Office for Littoral and M , PEO-LMW , technology , Paul Hullinger , Government Computer News , Decision Lens

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Congress 'stuck in the mud' over teleconferencing

The GOP is leaning on the Federal Communications Commission to permit the use of Skype for calls on congressional computers, according to Politico.

Tags: Collaboration Center , video conferencing , Kevin McCarthy , technology , Administration Committee , twitter

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Military collaboration in civilian hands?

Some of the high-tech collaboration tools that have worked for the military could soon be at the fingertips of all government workers.

Tags: David McClure , Government Services Administration , GSA , Defense Information Systems Agency

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Improved Inter-operability ... in an instant

The Defense Department is looking for two things as it pertains to collaboration: Security and inter-operability.

Tags: Defense Department , Extensible Markup Language , Defense Information Systems Agency , interoperability

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GSA plans to take e-mail, collaboration to the cloud

Agency issues RFP for e-mail through software-as-a-service. GSA asks for 39 mandatory services with the hope of reducing the cost and modernizing its systems. The new system could support as many as 30,000 users.

Tags: contracting , technology , Casey Coleman , GSA , Alliant , cloud computing , software-as-a-service , e-mail , Jason Miller

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