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Beleaguered GTSI sheds reseller model
After suffering a ‘perfect storm’ in 2005, company officials steer new course.
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LexisNexis broadens data search for intelligence, security agencies
Data broker creates secure research tool for national security applications.
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DHS authorization bill: A mandate for info sharing
The House bill calls for DHS to establish a comprehensive IT network architecture.
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Is the financial LOB ready for prime time?
Depending on who you talk to, the Labor Department’s decision to tap the private sector for financial-management hosting services is a clear example either of what is right or wrong with the way the White House has pursued the Financial Management Line of Business initiative.<@SM>
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Report: E-prescribing can reduce drug injuries
The use of electronic prescribing by physicians could avoid many of the 1.5 million annual preventable drug injuries, according to the Institute of Medicine.<@SM>
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OMB sets one-hour data breach rule
With the deluge of recent data breaches, the Office of Management and Budget is pushing agencies toward stricter IT security accountability. Agencies now have a clear standard for reporting all incidents and a comprehensive definition of personally identifiable information.
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USPS gets a lift
When the Postal Service launched an initiative to better maintain safety records for its industrial vehicles, the goal was modest—reduce the agency’s reporting burden. Well over a year later, though, the Powered Industrial Vehicle Management System has produced a significant number of benefits, not only automating the reporting process but improving safety and helping USPS better manage its industrial fleet.
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FAA makes progress on satellite communications
But work on a network that carries the most critical radar and weather data in the country’s air traffic control system has fallen behind schedule.
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Database spending bill could move quickly in the Senate
Legislation creating an online database to track all kinds of federal spending could be on the fast track in the Senate.<@SM>
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Federal PKI bridge gets private peer
The Federal Bridge Certification Authority in May recognized an aerospace industry bridge for validating digital certificates, enabling secure communications between government agencies and contractors that issue their own certificates.
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VHA takes its forms online
As a Vietnam veteran of the Army Nursing Corps, Mary Stout has seen her share of government forms and paperwork. In her current role as the Veterans Health Administration’s chief of forms, publications and records management, Stout has labored to move the agency from paper to electronic forms.
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From point A to Z—and back again
Today’s business process management software streamlines both human and system interactions.<@SM><@SM>
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CIOs crucial to financial-management performance
Chief financial officers are in agreeement that as agencies modernize their financial management systems, they must reach out to and collaborate with their CIO counterparts.<@SM>
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OMB should sharpen IT project analyses: GAO
With 79 high-risk IT projects totaling about $2.2 billion in danger of running behind schedule or failing, congressional watchdogs say the Office of Management and Budget needs to sharpen the tools it uses to oversee and monitor agency IT spending.<@SM>
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GSA wants telecom expense management providers
The agency is surveying the market as part of a strategic sourcing initiative.
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Web extra: Massachusetts turns to open source
Ciber will replace a system built on Microsoft technology.
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FIPS policy creates Catch-22
Many commercial virus products can’t meet the 140-2 standard.
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Gateway E-100M: The price is right
Affordable ultralight notebook PC sports connectivity, security and storage features
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