Archived Industry Notes: Government
Published in 2008

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DARPA Announces $40,000 Network Challenge

Beginning Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 10 giant red balloons will be anchored in different locations across the continental U.S. Finding and submitting the location of the 8-foot inflatables is the aim of the DARPA Network Challenge.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said the challenge is designed to “explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.”

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first published week of: 11/30/2009

Data.gov Launched by Federal Government

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra made good Thursday on his promise to launch Data.gov, which will make data generated by the federal government publicly available. It’s apparent that Data.gov is only in the initial state of development. Day one featured an eclectic assortment of data sets, such as the locations of the world's copper smelters, National Weather Service advisories and weekly reports of earthquakes. Web site widgets for the FBI's 10 Most Wanted and the H1N1 swine flu virus are also featured.

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first published week of: 05/18/2009

David Arbeit Named Minnesota's First Chief Geospatial Information Officer

Minnesota Administration Commissioner Sheila Reger today appointed David Arbeit as Minnesota’s first Chief Geospatial Information Officer (CGIO). Arbeit, according to a release, will oversee the Minnesota Geospatial Information Office, created by the 2009 Legislature to coordinate geospatial information technology and its use across state government.

Modeled after a chief information officer (CIO), the GIO position -- instituted in some federal agencies and this March in California -- has served to acknowledge the importance of geospatial data and its coordination.

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first published week of: 06/29/2009

Determining Anchor Points for Sex Offenders Using GPS Data

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has begun tracking more than 6,000 sex offender parolees by using global positioning system (GPS) anklets. Sex offender parolees are allowed to travel only through certain areas and must keep away from other people. The GPS device lets parole agents know when parolees are somewhere they should not be by logging GPS coordinates every minute and sending coordinates to a central server every 10 minutes. This information about parolee location is compared to law enforcement incident data through crime-scene correlation reports. Regular e-mail reports keep analysts notified of any incidents that are close to an offender’s tracks in time and space. The features are accessible through an online mapping application, and analysts can review a parolee’s GPS data for up to 4 hours at a time, or view data in real time (with a 15- minute delay).

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first published week of: 08/24/2009

DHS Cyber-Security Official Resigns

The director of the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has resigned, several media outlets reported. Mischel Kwon is leaving the post after less than a year, and will soon take a job in the private sector, The Washington Post reports. The newspaper cited anonymous sources who said she was “frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles and a lack of authority to fulfill her mission.” She was the fourth director of U.S.-CERT in the last five years.

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first published week of: 08/17/2009

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