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U.S. Visit contract oversight is lax: GAO
The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program should strengthen its oversight of the contracts it is using to build a computerized border control system, according to the Government Accountability Office.<@SM>
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Planar debuts trade-friendly flat-panel monitors
New flat-panel 17-inch and 19-inch displays comply with the Trade Agreements Act.
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DOD to revamp contracting in Iraq
The Defense Department’s Business Transformation Agency has been charged with restructuring and transforming contracting processes and systems in Iraq.<@SM><@SM>
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E-Security stops data loss
The company’s Sentinel 5.1 monitors all security events on corporate networks
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Web Extra: Lawmakers discover the appeal of podcasting
Podcasting's flexibility lets people listen to congressional updates while walking their dog or driving around town.
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Wired for telework
Federal agencies struggle to overcome reservations about a flexible work option they must offer eligible employees
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Web extra: Technologies for telework
Agencies have extensively tested and used many telework technologies.
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Microsoft agrees to open format converter
In response to government pressure, the company will make its products interoperable with ODF.
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Fireside chats for the 21st century
Podcasts are a new way for the government to reach out to citizens.
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FCC seeks comments to improve disaster comms
Proposed rules aim to restore the telecommunications infrastructure faster after a catastrophe.
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USDA seeks Farm Bill business systems
The Agriculture Department seeks information about applications that can automate farm program business delivery, including eligibility for benefit payments.<@SM>
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GAO: Agencies are Networx-ready
However, at least two departments that GAO examined demonstrated significant deficiencies, according to a report.
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DARPA seeks leap in communications tech
Lumera awarded contract to build state-of-the-art polymer modulators, which will boost land-based and satellite radio links.
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GSA seeks Nextel sources
The agency has published a notice that it is looking for sources of Integrated Digital Enhanced Network-based cellular services under a contract awarded to Nextel in 2002.
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IT comfort food (and no strained soup puns)
We scoured government and industry for a bad word about NASA’s Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract that counts 400,000-plus products in its catalog—and were hard-pressed to find one.
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Supercomputer checks potential Discovery risks
The Columbia system, named in memory of the crew lost in the 2003 shuttle disaster, is assessing images of debris that affected Discovery during its ascent.
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Web-based 'coach' helps laid-off workers
Devis' product helps users navigate resources including career assessments, resume writing and job bank information.
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The science of SEWP
Federal IT purchasing contracts, like taxes, are a necessary evil not normally the object of rapturous elegies by their users. Which is why the near-total admiration expressed by a sampling of people who use the governmentwide acquisition contract run by NASA invites skepticism.<@SM>
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