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Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2009 Jill Wechsler	FDA Turnaround Time Will more resources and new leadership fix FDA, or is a major overhaul in order?
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	'Scrambling Data' a Greater Threat Than Hacking Hackers defacing websites or stealing information is bad, but the destruction of computer data could be worse, said Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, in one of his last speeches as a member of the Bush administration.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	A Domestic Counterterrorism Agency? It's a Numbers Game The question of whether to create a standalone domestic intelligence agency for counter-terrorism comes down to some cold, hard math, said The Rand Corp. in a recent study.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Testing Specialized Plug to Contain Subway Fires Researchers at West Virginia University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a "tunnel plug" that would stop fires from spreading in underground train stations.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Braces for Bigger Crackdown on Corruption Federal regulators recently introduced new anticorruption rules that lawyers inside the Beltway have characterized as unprecedented in their scope and power.
National Defense January 2009 Robert H. Williams	Shocking Products Keep Bad Guys Behind Bars Guardtower is a non-lethal electric fence option and IP6000 is an induced pulse high voltage security fence controller. They are made by Oldcastle Security.
National Defense January 2009 Reeder & Connolly	Conflict-of-Interest Plight Can Be Avoided Recently, one of the nation's largest government contractors faced a federal jury verdict that it violated the False Claims Act and breached two contracts with an independent federal agency based on failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson	Defense Department Under Pressure to Share Biometric Data Within minutes of knocking down the door of a suspected bomb maker in Iraq, U.S. troops can fingerprint everyone they find inside, send the scans across a satellite link, and find out if the subjects are suspected terrorists.
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson	Iris Scan Technology Yet to Take Off But where are the customers? So far, the government is driving the development of iris scanners and other biometric technologies, said Jerry Thames, executive advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton.
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