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News briefs

INS' Ziglar to resign; FBI taps two

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Letters to the editor

Ready to serve Homeland

Digital Government

Foul called on IT pay supplement

FCW.com's Ask Milt column publicizes a reader's complaint about the federal employee IT pay supplement

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Letter to the editor

Honored to serve Homeland

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Homeland IT team filling up

Transition Planning Office team will determine how IT can best serve the proposed Homeland Security Department

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NIPC seeks cyberalert support

Center issues request for quotations to get contractor support for its Analysis and Warning Section

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Vendor data gets user-friendly

When contracting officers or members of a source selection committee need to find out about a potential vendor’s quality of work on previous contracts, collecting the data often is a challenge. But the process is about to change. Three agencies are working with the General Services Administration and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to create a central past-performance records database for use governmentwide. NIH’s Diane Frasier says more than 100 agencies are expected to use a new system providing access to past-performance information.<@SM>

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OMB pushes agencies to share funds

The Office of Management and Budget is asking agency CIOs to give up control of their most valuable resource: money.

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OMB team lays out its e-gov agenda

The Office of Management and Budget’s e-government team met recently at the Washington offices of GCN and Washington Technology to discuss the administration’s e-gov progress.

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Agencies speculate on consolidating online travel apps

Will agencies' electronic-travel initiatives be left waiting at the gate?<@SM>

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Virtual Pentagon notice filed

A $400 million notice to bidders has been issued for the Command Communications Survivability Program

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FBI continues tech exec shift

The latest shuffle produced a new director for investigative technologies and a chief for the Cyber Crime Section

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Army awards WIN-T pact

The Army awarded a pair of contracts that will let two vendor teams battle it out for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program

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Congress is at odds over e-gov funding request

President Bush’s fiscal 2003 request for a $45 million e-government fund will head to conference when Congress is back in session next month.

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Justice puts limits on TIPS

Operation TIPS will go on, but without help from workers whose jobs give them access to people's homes

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Disaster portal delayed

Slow response by 15 agencies to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s requests for content for the disasterhelp.gov portal has delayed the rollout of the service for disaster victims and responders.

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Bush defends workforce flexibilities

President Bush defends plan to give the Homeland Security Department hiring and pay flexibilities

Digital Government

Net-savvy students frustrated

Survey shows students rely on Internet but fault teachers for not taking advantage of its power for more challenging uses in class

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NMCI reaches key milestone

The 20,000-seat mark signifies the official start of the monitoring of service-level agreements

Digital Government

Energy turns on link to Internet2

ESnet, part of the government's next-generation Internet initiative, now connects to the university-run Internet2