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Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 11/27/02
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:29:54 -0600
From: "NIPC Watch" <nipcwatch@private>
To: "Information Technology" <information_technology@private>

November 26, Federal Computer Week
AKO offers secure portal lessons. In developing its own secure portal, the
Air Force might be able to take some lessons learned from the Army Knowledge
Online (AKO) portal, which has more than 1 million accounts, including about
6,000 with Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) access, said
Robert Coxe, the Army's former chief technology officer who managed AKO. The
Air Force is in the initial phases of developing a secure portal that will
provide air operations centers with access to the data they need to make
critical warfighting decisions. Such information currently is maintained in
disparate systems. The system will provide the air operations centers with
point-and-click access to an integrated set of secure information and will
run on the Defense Department's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network. Lt.
Gen. Leslie Kenne, deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration at Air
Force headquarters, said the Air Force SIPRNET Portal is being tested as a
way to eliminate the "disconnect between the force and the unit level" and
will enable users to simply access the information they want and need to
conduct air operations. Source.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1125/web-ako-11-26-02.asp

November 25, ComputerWorld
DARPA establishes new information gathering and analysis office. The Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has established a new Information
Awareness Office (IAO) to develop technology for information gathering and
analysis on a huge scale. The IAO aims to foster the development of
information systems to "counter asymmetric threats by achieving total
information awareness useful for preemption, national security warning and
national security decision-making," according to the DARPA Web site. The
threat "is characterized by collections of people loosely organized in
shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define," DARPA says. The
IAO plans to develop technology that will allow understanding of the intent
of these networks, their plans and potentially define opportunities for
disrupting or eliminating the threats. The program has already demonstrated
the feasibility of extracting relationships from text. In the coming year,
DARPA plans to expand that capability to include Web pages, financial
transactions, communications, travel records and the like. DARPA Web site:
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ Source.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,7
6117,00.html

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