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PC Mall Gov wins Va. supplier contract
Virginia agencies will buy all their Microsoft products through PC Mall Gov for the next two years.
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DHS bill skips air cargo screens
The Homeland Security spending bill produced by a House and Senate conference committee provides more overall money than Bush requested.
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Virginia honors state IT projects
At its annual IT symposium, the Commonwealth honors state, local and private-sector organizations for technology innovation.
Acquisition
ITT to run Deep Space Network
NASA will pay ITT up to $580 million over 10 years to support the agency's system of antennas for satellites and interplanetary spacecraft.
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GAO wants better OPM metrics
The Office of Personnel Management says e-gov will save $2.7 billion, but congressional auditors couldn't determine how the agency came up with those numbers.
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Iraq request includes $2 billion for info tech
Proposals for communications systems and research, development, test and evaluation were in Bush's supplemental funding request for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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OMB's Johnson: Management Agenda gaining wide support
Federal agencies have embraced the President’s Management Agenda to the point that “it’s almost gone from the President’s Management Agenda to the Agencies’ Management Agenda,” an OMB deputy director said today.<br>
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Memo to OMB: Don't be a lame duck
Washington, D.C., observers offer advice for sustaining progress on IT management and related concerns
Digital Government
NIST issues security drafts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's latest publications define the security necessary for IT systems and establish processes for handling incidents.
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Isabel stresses government tech
NOAA Web site hit by record daily traffic levels in week leading up to hurricane
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E-gov leadership program to expand
National Defense University fine-tunes certification program after freshman year
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DISA net contracts kept in the shadows
Vendors are busy jostling for position on the Defense Department's $886 million Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program.
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E-gov sites score high on user satisfaction survey
A quarterly survey of 22 federal e-government sites has rated their customer satisfaction higher than for some offline government functions.
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