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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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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.
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White House: Fix Katrina flaws before next hurricane season
A White House report said the federal government was unprepared for Hurricane Katrina and must bolster its emergency preparedness and response systems before the next hurricane season starts June 1.
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Qwest to enhance, run Wyoming education network
The Wyoming Equality Network connects all of the state's public schools.
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GAO: Data needed on American Indian Internet use
GAO reports there has been no data since 2000 on how many American Indians have phones and no information about how many subscribe to the Internet.
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Sweeping changes urged for U.S. response to emergencies
The Homeland Security Department should set up a national operations center to integrate federal agency response and give a unified view of disasters, according to recommendations made by the White House and released in a report today.<@SM>
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UPDATED: GSA files Networx revision
Critics wonder if the solicitation needs to be redone, but others say the changes are minor.
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