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Many students view a career in government, where IT skills are desperately needed and where critical research and development is often done, as a road to technical irrelevancy.

The U.S. government could create a nationwide homeland security network for information sharing for as little as US$1.25 million, according to a former director of the Critical Infrastructure Protection program at the U.S. Department of Energy.

The pending appointment by President Bush of Microsoft Corp.'s chief security officer Howard Schmidt to the number two position at the U.S. government's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board raises an important question about the homeland security effort: Should private-sector experts be heading for the White House or frontline security agencies?

The CIA's private-sector IT research and development firm, In-Q-Tel Inc., faces significant hurdles in breaking through the agency's secretive culture, but by most industry standards the two-year old start-up has "a good track record" and is "worth the risk," according to a report released Wednesday by an independent panel of experts.