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2006 was the year of the young
Agencies’ efforts to attract the next generation intensified and pandemic planners got busy.
Modernization
Windows fortified
Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, offers users stronger security, better performance than earlier versions.
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DISA plans second NCES buy in early 2007
IBM won the first contract for online collaboration tools by bidding tools from the Lotus Sametime suite.
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DHS clarifies its controversial MATRIX pilot
Report attributes MATRIX's demise to a lack privacy safeguards at its first launch, which led to a loss of public trust and funding.
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GSA schedule sales increase in 2006
But an analysis from Input shows the GSA schedules’ IT services sales declined 6.5 percent compared with last year.
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Neal Fox | GSA and DOD: new agreement, old mistakes
I wish I could say that the newly signed procurement agreement between GSA and the Defense Department will help bring DOD business back to GSA, but it won’t. In fact, it will do the opposite.<@SM>
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GSA announces settlement in liability case
GovConnection paid $2.55 million to settle the claim it had overcharged federal agencies, but it did not admit liability.
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ITAA opposes withholding tax on government contractors
The Senate amendment would call for collecting the new withholding tax this month, nearly five years sooner than originally planned.
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Sade leaves Commerce for GSA
The overseer of Commerce's small-business COMMITS contract will lead acquisition management at GSA.
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House makes blogging easy
Using the House Web Log Utility, members of Congress can blog through their official Web sites.
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OMB to release metrics for 18 e-gov projects
The Office of Management and Budget on Monday will release the performance metrics of 18 of 25 e-government initiatives as a part of the annual E-Government Report.
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GAO: Agencies nearly out of time for IT exchange
With only one year left to begin exchanges, participating agencies are still getting programs under way.
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E-gov satisfaction score stalls, ASCI finds
Aggregate citizen satisfaction with the 87 federal Web sites measured improved only 0.3 percent from the third quarter to 73.9 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale.
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Primavera Systems buys two companies
Terms were not released in the purchase of ProSight, a portfolio analysis solutions company, and Pertmaster, a U.K. risk analysis and mitigation solutions company.
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