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Postal Service copes with excess capacity
USPS leaders have no clear strategy for closing facilities or cutting unnecessary jobs, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Modernization
Scaling the mountain
Telecom officials analyze massive Networx RFPs to seize opportunities.
People
GAO: Feds need to keep closer eye on IT contractors
Federal agencies are lax in holding contractors responsible for computer systems and network security, a GAO report finds.
Acquisition
House approves GSA modernization legislation
Lawmakers have approved a bill that would reorganize GSA.
Acquisition
BearingPoint works DFAS project
BearingPoint Inc. will help the Defense Finance and Accounting Service build an interim payroll system as the services wait for the deployment of DIMHRS.
Modernization
Jacksonville gives data on demand
Thin-client applications improve employee productivity.
Acquisition
Pentagon to get GSA push
DOD's director of procurement and acquisition policy will tell military contracting officers that they can use GSA offerings.
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Agencies can’t give away their responsibility for proper disposal
As the only winner of the Gold Partnership award from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Electronics Challenge for its e-cycling and peer-mentoring programs, the Bonneville Power Administration is considered a model and mentor for other agencies trying to improve their technology recycling programs.
Modernization
Payne leaves Qwest
James Payne, who served as senior vice president and general manager of Qwest Government Services, is no longer with the company.
People
E-government could be a new academic field
ATLANTA—The scientific study of how government uses technology to interact with citizens is not a full-fledged discipline yet, though the building blocks are in place for it to become one, according to a panel at the National Science Foundation’s annual meeting for researchers in its Digital Government program.
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Justice Web site to unify sex offender tracking
Attorney General Gonzales said the department will launch a nationwide, searchable sex offender registry by the end of this year.
People
Geodetic team looks to the skies for new map survey
Those party animals at the National Geodetic Survey plan to celebrate the agency’s 200th birthday with a general realignment of the National Spatial Reference System.
Digital Government
State Department work boosts SI prospects
SI International raised its second quarter expectations.
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