Need to find that new defense procurement regulation? No problem. Defense Acquisition University officials promise that conducting an enterprise search of the school's corporate website, intranet, online catalog and related communities of practice sites will no longer be the exercise in frustration it once was. That's because DAU.mil now offers visitors a federated search capability enabled by Google Search Appliance version 7.0. The tool is still in its infancy, says Mike Lambert, DAU's deputy director for strategic planning and learning analytics, speaking during a C4ISR & Networks editorial webcast. But he says it is his "personal drive" to get the search engine to perform so seamlessly that it is just an afterthought for users.
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