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OMB’s Evans: Agencies will meet PIV I by Oct. 27
Agencies have less than three weeks to make sure their processes to issue federal ID cards and register employees meet the requirements outlined in Federal Information Processing Standard 201-Personal Identity Verification I.<@SM>
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the Pipeline
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Don't know what you've got until it's gone.
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Frequently asked questions: Enterprise service bus
Don't know about enterprise service buses? Here is a place to start.
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Rumble continues over e-gov funding
At the last minute, Senate approves some of Commerce's e-gov budget
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FYI pursues integrator partners
The data visualization vendor wants to expand its government business through relationships with integrators.
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CDC shuffles IT responsibilities
New information management office to oversee enterprise business systems
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Flipside: A few minutes with... Mark Amtower
Mark Amtower is founder and senior partner at Amtower and Co., a consulting firm that helps companies shape their marketing and advertising messages for the federal market.
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Armstrong named DHS deputy CIO
Charles Armstrong, the CIO of the Homeland Security Department’s Border and Transportation Security Directorate, has been named DHS’ new deputy CIO.
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EPA IG says IT programs require more oversight
Environmental Protection Agency IT project managers did not provide sufficient oversight of several programs, resulting in increased costs and scheduling delays, the agency’s inspector general has concluded.
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Lawsuit by vendor could delay e-passport
A spurned vendor’s lawsuit against the Government Printing Office over the rejection of the vendor’s electronic passport technology could further slow the introduction of the upgraded documents, according to industry observers.
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HHS taps Navy's Wah for health IT post
Wah, associate CIO of the Military Health System, is one of five interim managers.
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VA testing methods to gain more value from DOD demographic data
The Veterans Affairs Department has begun testing how to define or characterize demographic data imported from the Defense Department that VA could store in a repository for use among the many services that require such data.<@SM>
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FirstGov moves to cluster technology to expand search engine capabilities
Users of <a href="http://FirstGov.gov">FirstGov.gov</a> will soon have access to significantly more online government data, thanks in part to an expanded search function, General Services Administration officials said.
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USGS could outsource IT-based mapping operations
The functions of 400 federal employees at five locations will either be eliminated or transferred to an operations center in Colorado.
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Cragg: Defeat stovepipes through common data
The VA and DOD are testing a common repository for demographic data to eliminate duplicative data collection efforts.
People
Rumble continues over e-gov funding
At the last minute, Senate approves Commerce’s e-gov budget.
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