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Kundra plays well in the land down under

An Australian blogger hopes his country's politicians are paying attention to developments in the Obama administration.

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Obama wants contracting overhaul

Agencies will begin to bring outsourced work back to the government and will use more fixed-price contracts under President Barack Obama's agenda.

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SO-A What

John Burrow, deputy commander of the Marine Corps Systems Command, may have put the brakes on the continued proliferation of the buzz phrase <em>de jour</em>: Service-Oriented Architecture, better known as SOA.

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Agencies get five days of money

Agencies will be funded through March 11.

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Tech group hails $100 billion stimulus spending on IT

TechAmerica likes most of what it sees, except for a clause prohibiting companies from hiring workers on H1-B visas.

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Virginia takes a lead role in the stimulus plan's push for health IT

A Q&A with Aneesh Chopra, Virginia's secretary of technology and chief information officer, on how the commonwealth will use funds to help build a nationwide electronic health records system.

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Gauss to Run Navy NGEN Acquisition

Retired Rear Adm. John Gauss, who commanded the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center from 1998 to 2001 and served as chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department from 2001 to 2003, will run the acquisition for the <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081010_4699.php>Navy's Next Generation Enterprise Network</a>.

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Ink Tank

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Recommended Reading for March 5

Lousy PowerPoint practices; U.K. wants open source; The case for desktop Linux; Paperless living.

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Accuracy of census could be at risk because of delays, lack of testing

GAO tells lawmakers dearth of IT expertise is a major impediment to the decennial population count.