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IRS waits on Congress to decide tax return move to modern platform
The IRS hopes to move 1040 individual tax returns that are electronically filed to its Modernized e-File platform in 2009, but it depends on the budget that Congress approves.<@SM>
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DHS agency launches new portal
The Homeland Security Department’s Citizenship and Immigration Services has launched a new portal to help provide services to aspiring naturalized citizens and persons dealing with refugee, permanent residence and other immigration benefit processes.<@SM>
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HUD seeks modernized financial-management system
The Housing and Urban Development Department seeks proposals to modernize its accounting and financial-management functions by moving its core legacy systems to the PeopleSoft suite of financial-management applications to create an integrated system.
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Sun renews GSA IDIQ contract
The contract allows Sun Microsystems Federal to continue to supply its products and services to the government through August 2009.
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Smaller firm bests established carriers in $3B DISA circuit buy
DISA chose Arrowhead over BellSouth and Verizon for the Defense Information Systems Network Access Transport Services contract in the Northeast and Southeast.
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Navy halts Web site and portal investments
Before the Navy brings its IT infrastructure into the Defense Knowledge Online portal, service officials have to get a better handle on Navy Web site and portal investments.<@SM>
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David Warner | Next-generation command and control
Air Force Brig. Gen. David Warner has an answer for the 90-plus legacy interfaces that currently tie into the joint battlefield C2 system under his control: service-oriented architecture.
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Identity Force, ID Analytics reach reseller pact
The new agreement will make Identity Force a government reseller of ID Analytics’ breach analysis services.
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AT&T to develop Army financial systems
The telecom company will develop and deploy two systems that will improve the Army's finance processes.
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Nadler: New and improved Safety Act
Now companies can use a streamlined application to submit their anti-terrorism products for review.
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Military works to bridge the language gap
IBM and Joint Forces Command are testing new translation software.
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Kathleen Kummer | Another View: FEA Records Management—meeting the challenge without total upheaval
Agencies can meet the new Federal Enterprise Architecture Records Management Profile requirements by establishing a central repository that manages the records management rules for content from multiple systems.
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DeviceLock improvements offer advanced protection for PCs
Version 6 helps prevent internal data theft or accidental malicious downloads
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DOD IT resources failed during Katrina
Shipments of goods to soldiers in Southwest Asia were delayed for four days after the storm hit because a logistics center in Baton Rouge, La., wasn't prepared for the disaster, a report states.
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'Con Air' upgrades safety, security
The U.S. Marshals Service has agreed to implement a series of security improvements recommended by the Justice Department’s inspector general for the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS).<@SM>
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Visionaries and leaders get their due
The GCN Awards Gala honored 10 agency projects that demonstrated innovation and excellence, as well as this year’s government and industry executives of the year, and Hall of Fame inductees. Below are some comments from the evening’s individual honorees.<br><a href="http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42402-1.html"><u>2006 GCN Gala photo gallery</u></a>
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Digital TV offers opportunity for interoperability
When part of the radio frequency spectrum currently reserved for television is freed in 2009, it could help strengthen public safety communications, an expert said.
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GCN Awards Gala honors the people behind the projects
At last night’s GCN Awards Gala, hundreds of women milled about the Washington Hilton ballroom dressed in flowing chiffon gowns, diamonds and strappy high heels. Brig. Gen. Susan S. Lawrence, attending the event via live feed from Qatar, was wearing desert camouflage. She was the best-dressed woman in the room.<br><a href="http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42402-1.html"><u>2006 GCN Gala photo gallery</u></a>
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