Digital Government
OMB's daring plan
OMB has made one of its boldest management proposals yet by promoting component-based architecture
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DOD financial web grows
Department 'discovers' 200 more financial management systems, making auditable books harder to achieve.
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Interior contempt motion filed
American Indians maintain e-mail evidence destroyed in case over Interior's mismanagement of trust money
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NMCI passes first tests
Tests of NMCI revealed some initial start-up problems, but they did not raise any significant operational concerns
Modernization
Agencies like anywhere, anytime access
Satellite's all-encompassing nature appeals to agency officials
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The Circuit
Some top technology folks acknowledge that achieving a paperless government will be easier to reach 'in spirit' than in reality
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Latest info scrub worries public interest advocates
The Bush administration has ordered tighter controls on government information that could help terrorists
Digital Government
FAA opens contract for bids
The FAA opened competition for an air traffic modernization project, potentially worth $1 billion, that was the subject of a contract protest
Digital Government
Piggybacking speeds payback
The events of Sept. 11 brought a major change in security procedures at the Army's Fort Belvoir in Virginia
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Patch system in the works
GSA contract would set up a governmentwide notification system to warn agencies of security holes in commercial software
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Mich. police keep tabs on radio gear
Assets management system, available through desktop and handheld computers, tracks 35,000 pieces of equipment
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Intercepts
War on terrorism? Pentagon officials have launched an all-out war on credit card problems
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FEMA.gov rises to the occasion
While many federal employees were evacuating their offices in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Web team kept working. Within an hour of the terrorist attacks, the agency posted information on its site and updated it around the clock
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Biological pathogens: Know your enemy
A company's planned Public Health Alert and Response System will be able to detect a pathogen and predict its spread
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Tools of the trade
Examples of the kinds of tools the Pacific Disaster Center developed to help emergency managers
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FBI record handling under fire
The FBI's computer systems are 'antiquated,' but it was poor performance by personnel that led to the FBI's failure to disclose more than 1,000 documents to lawyers defending Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Justice Department has concluded
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