People

Get a Life!: The pay raise dilemma

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People

Letter: DOD prototyping policy is long overdue

There is no substitute for experience with a working system -- even if it is just modeled -- to test policies and procedures, technologies and processes, algorithms and heuristics.

People

CMS taps Citizant for business modeling

Under the $1 million contract, the company will produce and document business process models to help the CIO make investment decisions.

Digital Government

A great idea -- a government IT wiki

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Digital Government

Why hasn't CJD been blogging regularly?

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People

State issues new rules for Blackwater

Agency bolsters electronic surveillance of private security officers in Iraq.

People

GAO: Census needs more risk management

Information technology for the 2010 census could arrive late and perform badly because of the bureau's poor planning, GAO said.

People

DOD plans new media hub at Fort Meade

Some programs the military services now control will transfer to the authority of the assistant secretary of Defense for public affairs next year.

People

TWIC card enrollment to begin

Port workers will start enrolling Oct. 16 to receive government-issued biometric ID cards, three months behind schedule.

People

Bush threatens to veto a bill that would strengthen IGs

President Bush threatens to veto a bill that would safeguard IGs' authority

People

Young promises acquisition changes

New policy mandates use of competitive prototyping in large DOD programs

Acquisition

Last-minute spending hurts IRS, IG says

As a result of the rush, the agency sometimes violates regulations, and contractors may have skipped steps in the procurement process, a new report states.

People

Renaming State's blog

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People

HSPD-12 plaintiffs get week extension on paperwork

Three appeals court judges working on the NASA case made the move after deciding they had not had time to consider all the material filed with a motion to extend the deadline.

People

Letter: VistA outage not so bad

If nine hours without power leads to months of data entry, woe are we for all the paper systems in use almost everywhere else.

Digital Government

FCW Download and Table of Contents

Last issue's news Print and online news archive Picture this: Community.gov FEATURES 4 executive organizers Three small-agency CIOs discuss strategies for managing personal e-mail and BlackBerry use, PowerPoint presentations, and brainstormingIs the Defense Travel System finally ready to fly? Expanding the system to accommodate trips for purposes other than temporary-duty travel is a Defense Department priority NEWS …

Digital Government

Buzz of the week | The space economy

Fifty years ago, the government made an important step — one might say one large step — for humanity. It created NASA.

Ideas

Dissing "Dipnote"

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