Digital Government
Is XML too prolific?
General Services Administration study to advise on need for government repository
Digital Government
Interior asked to disconnect office
Plaintiffs have asked a federal judge to disconnect the Office of Surface and Mining from the Internet again
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Section 508 revisions considered
Public comments sought on revisions to Section 508, especially pertaining to the obligations of vendors
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DOD to enlist tech to fight credit card abuse
DOD expects to use data mining to protect against waste, fraud or abuse of DOD credit cards
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FAA awards modernization deal
An embattled air traffic modernization program potentially worth $1 billion has finally gotten off the ground
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E-gov bill heads to House
The Senate unanimously passed a bill to provide $345 million for e-gov initiatives over the next four years
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OPM previews Recruitment One-Stop site
The Office of Personnel Management is asking vendors to expand its USAJobs.opm.gov site by adding features such as the ability to submit one resume for multiple job openings.<@SM>
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Senate unanimously passes <br>e-gov bill
The Senate last night passed legislation to establish a Senate-confirmed administrator for a new Office of Electronic Government and authorize $345 million over four years to support interagency e-government projects.
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DOD awards translation contract
DOD contracts for language services, including digitizing information gathered in war on terrorism
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Next for GIS: simple apps using standards
Over the last five years, agencies have made much progress on adopting standards for geographically enabled data, but they still have far to go, the head of the Federal Geographic Data Committee said last week.
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Council refining assessment tool
Performance Measurement Advisory Council members suggest separating the results of the new Program Assessment Rating Tool
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OMB to assign e-gov watchdogs
The Office of Management and Budget will get more hands-on in its management of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects by assigning 11th-hour gurus to make sure the efforts meet OMB’s demands.
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Benefits of variable annuities after you're gone
FCW.com's Friday Financials column continues its look at variable annuities, which have become a part of the retirement plans of many Americans
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Benefits portal attracts new partners
The Labor Department’s <a href="http://GovBenefits.gov">GovBenefits.gov</a> portal next week will have 30 additional benefits programs, and more programs will join at a rate of 20 to 40 per month for the rest of the year, program manager George Wollner said yesterday.<@SM>
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OPM gets early cooperation on clearance system initiative
The Office of Personnel Management team working on the E-Clearance project has been pleasantly surprised at the high-tech cooperation it is getting—so much so that OPM expects the e-government initiative to meet its next milestone early.
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D.C. site gears up for questions
Jeeves Solutions soon will launch a question-based search engine on the Washington, D.C., Web site
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Search engine gives FirstGov edge
The new FirstGov search engine the General Services Administration revved up last month runs smoothly and needs only a few improvements to make FirstGov a best-of-breed Web portal.
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