Immigration Bill Would Aid Security, Napolitano Says
Legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigrationlaws would further strengthen the country’s security system to guard against cases like the Boston Marathon bombings, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in the last of three hearings on a bipartisan immigration proposal. The shadow of the Boston bombings — the two suspects in the case entered the [...]
Read More →Developing educational materials, courses on standards
So called “documentary standards,” generally developed by industry-based committees, significantly influence industry, commerce and even daily life, but their role is often unrecognized save by those people who are immediately concerned.
Read More →Improving cities by using the notion of “urban metabolism”
As is the case with organisms, cities need energy, water, and nutrients, and they need to dispose of wastes and byproducts in ways which are viable and sustainable over the long run.
Read More →Public safety networks coped better with Sandy than commercial networks
A new nationwide Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for first responders will be built under the supervision of the First Responder Authority (FirstNet). This network will be an improvement over the commercial networks that experienced outages during the storm. Urgent Communicationreports that last week the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reported that 25 percent of the commercial cell sites in [...]
Read More →Agency Spotlight: When Budgets Drive Change
One of the fundamental challenges facing the federal government today is the need to be innovative and capable of adapting to changes in technology and work habits. But nothing forces an agency to be innovative and to think about managing change like the threat of deep budget cuts. That’s exactly the lesson that information technology [...]
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