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DOD Global Broadcast System goes two-way
A DISA engineering team incorporated a commercial, two-way satellite TV standard into GBS.
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Ragan joins GTSI as VP of finance, corporate controller
He will be responsible for all accounting functions, credit and collections, payroll and other activities in the finance organization.
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DOD rethinks its IT procurement strategy
With concerns about abuses and a need to fulfill complex missions, is DOD ready to play taps for its use of GSA contracts?
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Intercepts
Let us count the ways to say AES;Competition in WLAN security heats up; Army A-OK with AKO to DKO; Bonnie-Jill Laflin heads for Iraq with Diamond Dallas Page.
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Making EVM matter: The complete transcript
Federal Computer Week and AFFIRM recently convened a roundtable of government and industry officials to discuss earned value management and its potential in government. Here is the full transcript of that discussion.
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Deadbolts for databases
Add-on tools offer the last line of defense for keeping hackers away from sensitive information
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Key House leader pushes for FAA telecom project funding
Verizon lobbies to kill troubled FAA effort.
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Fed contractors want thorough overhaul of clearance processing
Poll details many faults in ‘wholesale systemic failure’
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PART earns partial credit from critics
Both sides agree that the program rating tool, despite flaws, has few competitors
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IG gives GSA passing grade on financials
The General Services Administration has made enough improvements in financial management to satisfy its inspector general and likely keep its biggest customer, the Defense Department.
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VA orders Microsoft products through veteran-owned reseller
The contract awarded to MicroTech is worth as much as $365 million.
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DHS Special Report | Forward Motion
Even as the Homeland Security Department has stumbled through project failures, stalled during leadership vacuums and withstood withering criticism, DHS has delivered some projects that serve as exemplars of technology management and are improving prospects for better project performance.<@SM>
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USDA agency to expand e-grants
The Agriculture Department’s Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service will soon offer electronic submission services to all grant applicants.
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Steven Law | E-gov's Ardent Activist
Steven Law is the second deputy secretary of the Labor Department to head the President’s Management Council’s E-government Committee. It’s no surprise that the Office of Management and Budget continues to tap Labor Department leaders.
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USDA provides online agricultural tools
The Agriculture Department has made available a Web-based energy estimator for irrigation to help producers manage their irrigation water resources more efficiently.<@SM>
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Congress, OMB resume tug of war over E-Gov
In case there was any doubt, the annual turf battle between congressional appropriators and OMB over the e-government initiatives is on, even after the administration this year launched an unprecedented campaign to convince skeptical appropriators of the program’s benefits.<@SM>
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Doan starts tenure at GSA with splash
Lurita Doan promised one thing in her first public address since taking the reins at the General Services Administration last month—change. Her first big one was bringing in Jim Williams, the program manager for one of the government’s highest-profile, politically toughest challenges—the U.S. Visit project at the Homeland Security Department.
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