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Access and the city: Portal helps New Yorkers find info
ACCESS NYC pulls together more than 20 city, state and federal benefit programs.
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Stratcom takes a page from Wikipedia
Using a Wikipedia-style approach, the program eliminates the chain of information by allowing collaboration regardless of rank or position.
People
USAID gives BearingPoint $69M contract for work in Jordan
Under the five-year contract, BearingPoint will set up a Sustainable Achievement of Business Expansion and Quality program for Jordan.
Cybersecurity
State to issue notice on passport cards
The intent is to create wallet-sized, secure People Access Security Services cards that would include radio frequency vicinity-read technology, a State official said.
Cybersecurity
Social Security Administration ahead of HSPD-12 deadline
The agency is the first to issue new secure ID cards to employees and contractors.
Modernization
IT business cases going online
By mid-February 2007, agencies will have to post all of their Office of Management and Budget-approved business cases on the World Wide Web.<@SM>
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Army: Iraqi militants can't crack tactical radios
Troops have been concerned due to news reports that Hezbollah forces in Lebanon had hacked into Israeli radios.
Digital Government
Doan wants multiyear funding at GSA
The GSA administrator said she is working on plans to enable the agency to have the advantage of holding customer agency funds over fiscal years.
Cybersecurity
Davis faults Senate, praises GSA reform
Davis told the GEIA Vision Conference that Senate filibusters this past session stalled passage of appropriations bills.
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EU building info systems to help secure borders
The existing system is outdated and cannot meet the demands placed on it.
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IT, intranets would improve FOIA processes, attorney general says
In a review of agency plans to improve Freedom of Information Act operations, Alberto Gonzales found that many want to adopt IT for expediting requests.
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Report: Create single financial management statute
Federal financial management lacks a single source for guidance and many officials view its importance as minimal, according to a new NAPA report.
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E-voting faces a test at the polls
NIST works on standards as debate continues over systems’ reliability.
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Gary Danoff | Another View: The future is now
Fast forward 10 years: Imagine CIOs “buying” agency service-level agreements from the prevalent IT utility of the day—the Federal IT Grid.
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