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Editorial: It's time to build DHS' headquarters

Feb 05, 2012

Congress is making a costly mistake in repeatedly shooting down funding requests to construct a Homeland Security Department campus in southeast Washington.

Editorial: DoD, other agencies, must embrace consolidation

The Defense Department is an information technology behemoth run amok: 772 data centers, 15,000 networks, 70,000 servers, 7 million IT devices and 5,000 applications. It serves 3 million networked users and has an IT staff of 90,000 employees.

Editorial: Time to overhaul security clearance system

The government's security clearance system is exorbitant, broken and ripe for streamlining and cost savings. (3)

Editorial: FHWA must be vigilant in tracking highway projects

Tight budgets are prompting federal programs to be smarter in their management of tax dollars and to show results of their spending. (2)

Editorial: Targeting of feds could have serious repercussions

Last week, Senate Republicans unsuccessfully tried to shrink the federal workforce 10 percent and extend the federal pay freeze from two to five years. (9)

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Editorial: It's time to build DHS' headquarters

Editorial: DoD, other agencies, must embrace consolidation

Editorial: Time to overhaul security clearance system

Editorial: FHWA must be vigilant in tracking highway projects

Editorial: Targeting of feds could have serious repercussions

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Editorial: It's time to build DHS' headquarters

Editorial: DoD, other agencies, must embrace consolidation

Editorial: Time to overhaul security clearance system

Editorial: FHWA must be vigilant in tracking highway projects

Editorial: Targeting of feds could have serious repercussions

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