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Defense R&D personnel moves falter
Almost three-quarters of personnel initiatives proposed by Defense Department labs and test centers haven't been adopted
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To ease asset tracking, DOD will use standard ID tags
Starting tomorrow, all Defense Department program managers must tag new equipment with a standard and universal identification code to track the items they buy.<@SM>
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Policies and Practices: Make or break for e-government
If you listen closely, you can hear the drum the Office of Management and Budget is beating for e-government. Over the next 11 months, it will grow louder and stronger.
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Foreign students get ICEy reception
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will work around the clock to make sure foreign students are registered.
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FAA awards teleconferencing pact
A Tyco subsidiary will get $5 million to install a teleconferencing system for the Federal Aviation Administration
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Air Force tabs EFJohnson for radios
EFJohnson will get almost $8 million to supply mobile and portable radios for Air Combat Command.
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Md. county portal streamlines customer service
Montgomery County, Md., is more than halfway through consolidating about 40 government Web sites into one official portal. But as it inches closer to completion, the project illustrates how difficult it is to overcome territoriality among some agencies.
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Report: Privacy compliance is uneven
Federal auditors find that government agencies don't put enough emphasis on Privacy Act requirements.
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MBTA to get new communications
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will pay a Tyco subsidiary more than $25 million to develop a new communications systems
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Feds launch USA Services
The General Services Administration started a new call center to answer questions
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Data Swappers
The Bureau of Land Management is setting up Extensible Markup Language data exchanges with oil and natural gas prospectors who drill on federal lands.
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Navy’s Carey gives policy priority
For the past three years, Rob Carey has managed change in the Navy. For most of that time, Carey, the service’s former e-business and smart-card team leader, spearheaded the Navy’s thrust to transform the way it conducted business electronically, which brought about a heavy reliance on smart-card technology for data authentication.
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Defense Dept. studies swarming
The military will spend $1 million to see how swarms of unmanned vehicles work in combat.
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NY center to test data portal
A SUNY-Albany research center will see if state and local agencies can share information through a Web site.
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CSC: Tax database should continue
The lead contractor and an oversight board member both say a project to build a new database for IRS customer accounts must go on.
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Justice to create regional data store
The Justice Department wants to establish a geospatial database to help with criminal analysis.
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Army CIO aims for pervasive info
The man now in charge of the Army's technology efforts wants more efficient uses of information
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Logistics program needs more cash
The Defense Logistics Agency's plan to upgrade its back office systems will need another $36 million to finish
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Va. Tech to teach project oversight
The school will offer project management classes on Saturdays so more federal employees can attend.
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