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Interior taps IBM for $100 million ERP job

The Interior Department has chosen IBM Corp. to take over as systems integrator on the Financial and Business Management System project designed to replace a hodgepodge of financial and administrative apps with a single enterprise resource planning tool.

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Coach2100 offers new twist on information sharing

Collaboration tool could aid homeland security efforts

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System eases traffic's toll on Stockholm

The congestion or value pricing system charges fees for driving into the city at certain times of the day.

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Can OMB's new centers of excellence really compete?

The Office of Management and Budget's strategy for moving agencies to consolidated financial and human resources management systems is about to be put to the test.

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IBM identity management hones in on small organizations

Tivoli Identity Manager Express takes best practices from larger systems and simplifies them for use at smaller organizations.

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Dave Combs | Enterprise efforts are in tune at USDA

Agriculture CIO Dave Combs, who took the reins last summer, has had a career as varied as USDA’s business lines.<@SM>

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Panel: VOIP should change agency practices

They said feds should look at it as a technology that enables new ways of thinking.

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Industry group announces new animal ID database

The U.S. Animal Identification Organization will run a Web-based system that can track animals and help avert crises.

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DHS wireless experiment takes to orbit

This summer, the project will shift from testing cellular communications to satellite.

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Visionaries needed

Agencies are facing a telecom revolution with few big thinkers to lead

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Army stuck in a WIN-T quandary

Program and funding issues could impede future communications system

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The Pipeline

WebLayers releases policy enforcer; Phoenix helps PCs recover from crashes.

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You don’t need a weatherman…

WeatherBug’s strength lies in its vast network of data

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FlipSide

Ouch! Brain cramp!

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Who’s knocking on your network door?

Caymas offers identity-driven access control

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Alliant makes jump to video

GSA offers Webcast in lieu of industry day for hot procurement

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UPDATED: Bush's 2007 budget cuts target EPA libraries

Public employee group members protest proposed cuts they say would undermine environmental research.

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OMB working with agencies on EVM as deadline nears

The Office of Management and Budget has been pushing civilian agencies to use earned-value management so that project managers can track money spent on a project almost in real time and measure that expense against timelines and deadlines.<@SM>

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Education to modernize school, lender management operations

The Education Department seeks to develop a system for an integrated partner management system to support enrollment and oversight of schools and lenders in the Federal Student Aid program.<@SM><@SM>

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Information-sharing underlies agencies' strategies

Agencies are focusing this year and next year on ways to extract and share data through modernizing and consolidating infrastructure, as well as making better use of the information that is collected through business processes.