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Base closings hit Army IT
The Defense Department recommended closing Fort Monmouth, N.J., the site of many of the Army's warfighting and business information technology organizations.
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Fairfax expands e-pay services
The Virginia county government will be using Govolution for more than 30 applications.
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Case management projects and shared-data standard gather steam
The Justice Department and the FBI are looking to set a standard by which law enforcement officials can more easily share information and let other agencies develop similar systems based on the requirements.
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Health IT contracts coming
HHS seeks consultants to help develop a nationwide health information architecture and a process for certifying electronic records.
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Governors still oppose Real ID
It will be expensive and technologically problematic, the National Governors Association says.
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USDA issues draft plan for animal IDs
The Agriculture Department has released a draft plan for tracking animal movements to speed its response to potential outbreaks such as mad-cow disease.
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FAST becomes D.C. search overlord
Washington, D.C., will deploy a Norwegian company's search engine across the city government's entire information technology infrastructure.
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Treasury IG gets on IRS’ business cases
IRS officials should not rely on the data in some of their recent business cases to manage and fund IT projects, inspector general auditors have found.
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Garden State plants e-health seeds
New Jersey officials are planning a statewide electronic health record system.
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E-gov projects to get boost from sharing PKI credentials
The sharing of authentication credentials between government and the private sector is closer to reality than ever before.
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House proposal eviscerates HealtheVet
A subcommittee gutted President Bush's request for $311 million for fiscal 2006 to launch a health e-record program for the nation's veterans.
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Congress seeks border fixes
The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act would require development and implementation of information-sharing initiatives and other actions to improve border security.
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Skinner slams DHS network
DHS officials did not consult users and skipped key security measures as it developed the Homeland Secure Data Network, the inspector general says.
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IRS sticks with Lambert for CFO
The acting Internal Revenue Service chief financial officer is staying on as the tax agency’s permanent CFO.
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PACKET RAT: Sun’s swing toward open-source knocks the Rat for a loop
The house was full at the Reagan Federal Building auditorium for Sun Microsystems’ quarterly “Network Computing” road show—which is what happens every time someone mentions a free lunch in Washington.
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