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USDA ushers out paper food stamps
Last week, Agriculture Department officials completed a 20-year effort to switch all 50 states to an electronic process for managing the $25 billion benefits program.
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Where the work comes from
Officials at systems integrators say enterprise architecture projects come from a variety of sources.
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Forging stronger government and integrator ties
Tech refresh veterans say clear goals and frequent communication are the keys to success for leasing or performance-based contracts between integrators and agencies.
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Worker safeguards
Some unions and federal employees are concerned about certain elements of the National Security Personnel System that could create unfair working conditions and cronyism
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The master builders
Integrators stand behind many agencies' enterprise architectures, but will the market keep growing?
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Better, stronger, faster
Officials from the Transportation Security Administration's new and improved Project Control Office aim for tighter business practices by sharpening their focus in the following areas
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NMCI test center delayed
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet Product Evaluation Center may not be up and running until the end of this year, according to NMCI executives.
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NASA tests satellite software
The on-board application is designed to aim the spacecraft's cameras at interesting things on its own.
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NASA uses Xerox for sharing
Scientists for the Mars Exploration Rover project and more than 5,000 others use DocuShare for projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
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Accenture managers move up
Stephen Rohleder goes from CEO of the government operating group to COO of the whole company.
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ITS, SEA become Apogen
The firms once called ITS Services Inc. and Science and Engineering Associates Inc. have re-emerged with a new name and renewed focus on government.
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Robbins-Gioia sold
Consulting firm Robbins-Gioia has been sold to the Institute for International Research.
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Crawling for content
Government Printing Office officials are investigating the use of Web-crawler and data-mining technologies to capture government information published on the Web.
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The graying of the IT workforce
The CIO Council's Clinger-Cohen Assessment Survey found that federal technology employees are aging and poised to retire in the next several years.
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Cashing in on grant money
The recommendations from the Task Force on State and Local Homeland Security Funding address a wide range of problems at all levels of government in getting funding quickly to the responders who need it.
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