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New Systems, Services Touch Most of Agency's Core Operations

PLANO, Texas – EDS today announced it has been awarded a multi-year subcontract from Sytel Corp. to provide, develop and support new information technology infrastructure for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that touches nearly every facet of the agency's operational mission, including investigations, bookings, detention and removal of aliens, enforcement of immigration laws, and legal work.

ICE is the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The Enforcement Systems Program contract includes a one-year, $6.5 million base period and as many as five additional option years that could place the total value of the contract to as much as $34 million if all options are exercised.

EDS will provide planning, development, maintenance, help desk, database and operations support for the following mission critical systems:

Enforcement Integrated Database (EID), a central repository for enforcement data;

Enforcement Case Tracking System (ENFORCE);

Apprehension Booking Module (EABM) that captures high quality data on illegal alien activity and supports the DHS law enforcement mission to identify, apprehend, detain, and remove aliens illegally in the U.S.;

Worksite Enforcement Activity Reporting System (LYNX), which provides a mechanism for the storage and retrieval of detailed enforcement activity as it relates to employers engaged in criminal and administrative violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act and the U.S. Criminal Code;

Criminal Alien Investigation System (CAIS) which automates investigation functions needed to support the Institutional Hearing/Removal Program;

Deportable Alien Control System (DACS) that automates many of the functions associated with tracking the status of illegal aliens under removal proceedings;

General Counsel Electronic Management System (GEMS), a customized system that allows the Office of the General Counsel to track case information and documentation related to their case, and;

Detention & Removal Operations Program Support (DROPS), which supports investigation of cases identified by the Joint Terrorist Task Force as high profile or of interest and supports automated functions and information to DRO detention and deportation officers, investigators, and other personnel in detaining and deporting aliens in DHS custody with possible ties to terrorist activity.

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Pensions computers crash
By Simon Freeman

CIVIL SERVANTS had to revert to pen and paper after the biggest software crash in government history knocked out computers used to process benefit and pension payments.

Thousands of staff at the Department for Work and Pensions found that they were unable to use the machines after a software upgrade went wrong, bringing the ministry’s network to a standstill.

The department said last night that most of the computers affected were back online, but predicted delays to some new and amended claims with disruption expected for 48 hours.

Technicians from Microsoft were flown in from the Continent to join engineers from the Texas-based contractor EDS, which runs the department’s technology network as part of a £2 billion deal.

inventing new technologies

Three words, that are the sole block to this perfectly sensible idea.

These people couldn't invent themselves out of a paper bag. They couldn't organize a barbeque on the surface of the sun (hmmm more solar energy). They couldnt organize a piss up in a brewery.

Mohsen Moradi, 25, clergyman
Iran must continue its nuclear activities. We have nuclear weapons already, but don't want to start a war.
The US is just the arrow head in the attack on Iran. Behind it is Israel. America may well attack us, but we aren't afraid of this because God will protect us. We are not talking here about a war between countries, but a war between religions.
There are commands in Holy Koran that we must keep up to date with technology and weaponry. [...]

Oh really? How busy is your patent office I wonder?!

The fact is, everything Iran uses now, was invented outside of their country. All the nuclear technology they have is from manufacturing processes and concepts invented and developed outside of their country. They wouldnt have concrete if someone hadnt told them how to mix it.

If they had some imagination and ability to innovate, of the sort they used to display hundreds of years ago, they would be selling everyone else solar technology and not begging for stolen plans to death reactors. They wouldnt be importing cellular phones, cars, computers, anything made of plastic, metal alloys and anything that uses electricity.

These people take, take, take; thats all they do decade after decade. They take other peoples technology and use it to kill. Their "dissidents" leave Iran and try and persuade "our" governments to take the lives of our sons so that they can live in a sort of country that they cannot build themselvs. Enough is enough with these people.

If these people need cellular telephones, let them invent their own. If they want sattelite TV, let them learn how to build rockets. Let them invent TV. They need to muster whatever creative forces they have and build their own systems, or do without. As for nuclear reactors, if someone didnt go there and tell them, they would have thought that pitchblende was something you do on a Barbat, and not a source of Uranium. They want these goods, these technologies to prove that they are "civilized"

Sanaz Maserrat, 29, teacher
We have to continue with our nuclear programmes. If we don't pursue this technology we will fall behind other countries in the scientific field. We need nuclear energy because our oil is going to run out. Why are the powerful countries allowed nuclear energy and not us?
I think there is a good chance that the US will attack Iran, if the programmes are continued. Do we have to obey America? I'm not sure if we have nuclear weapons already. [...] my emphasis

and modern, but the fact is all of these things (anything that can use electricity) are just trappings; a thin layer of makeup, under which is a very silly and backwards mentality, with no real understanding of anything 20 century or why any of it matters. Or doesnt matter for that matter.

If that were not the case, they would not be trying to install the worst technology ever unleashed by man. They would thank their lucky stars that their country will never have the problem of how to clean up a Nuclear reactor. What is so astonishing is that every other country wants to be rid of these reactors, but the Iranian intelligencia are seemingly not aware of this, or even worse, they dont care about the risks. They just think its their right to bristle with warheads, and so they will bristle. It certainly may be the case that they have this right, but it certainly is not the right thing to do, no matter what weapons any other country has.

Iran cannot compete with the technological world. They need to find their own space and level, live and thrive within it and at it, and turn away from everything that they cannot repair and create themselvs. If they do not do this, then they will be forced to obey other countries forever, and they will deserve this life of servitude, because they failed to use their imaginations, ingenuity and common sense.

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