Matas says U.S. Department of Commerce figures for sales of electronic systems, a wider category that includes consumer electronics, computers and other electronic products, is slumping by about 4% for 2002.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the Commerce Department, is beginning the process of defining accuracy and security requirements for electronic voting equipment.
The other big news is that the Obama Department of Justice sued Apple and book publishers for alleged antitrust violations over the price of electronic books.
The Home Office's policy document, for example, makes no reference to the fact that the Department of Trade and Industry has just published its own draft bill on the interception of electronic communications.
"We got a directive from the Department of Commerce, which wants to become more electronic, " Leslie said.
The electronic engineering department at the University of Surrey has been awarded a prestigious professorship by the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
"Surrey Electronic Engineering Department has been the premier electronic engineering department in the country for more than two decades, both in terms of its outstanding research as well as the quality of graduates it has been producing, " he said.
During one test, DIS employees from five buildings viewed a live, on-screen presentation of a managers' meeting detailing the department's electronic commerce plans.
The Department of Homeland Security is taking a careful approach, wary of costly mistakes in past government attempts to set up electronic border surveillance.
Because making this determination can take hours given that disability claims files often contain hundreds of pages (the VA has no department-wide electronic records system), claims processors are driven to render decisions without necessary medical information.
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On the other hand, pressure from antitrust officials at the Department of Justice forced Nasdaq to open up its order-handling system to electronic brokerages.
Mr. DAVID SOBEL (Electronic Privacy Information Center): This has now become fairly routine within the Department of Homeland Security.
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But soon after, the State Department said the electronic draw would have to be held again because a computer glitch caused 90% of the winners to be selected from the first two days of applications instead of the entire 30-day registration period.
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