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OMB requires agencies to detail paperwork reduction goals
Agencies not meeting paperwork reduction goals will have to electronically file information with the Office of Management and Budget about how they are complying with burden reduction laws.
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A laptop for every student
Massachusetts considers providing every middle and high school student with a laptop -- at a cost of about $54 million.
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Interior ousts BearingPoint from major integration job
The Interior Department has removed systems integrator BearingPoint Inc. of McLean, Va., from the Financial and Business Modernization System project to install a new enterprise resource planning system, the department said.
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USPS to rely on career employees, not contractors, for IT services
Career employees, not government contractors, will perform the bulk of the U.S. Postal Service’s IT management, according to the agency’s new strategic blueprint.
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IRS seeks business rules management system
The agency has issued a request for proposals to acquire software, maintenance, and technical support and training to implement a business rules management environment as part of its systems modernization.
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Networx Enterprise deadline extended -- again
Bidders on the Networx Enterprise contract will have until Oct. 24 to submit their proposals.
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GSA awards Preferred analysis contract to KPMG
The General Services Administration awarded KPMG an analysis contract to gauge how the agency’s Preferred program is working.
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HHS proposes HIPAA standards for e-health claims attachments
The Health and Human Services Department is proposing the adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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Congress seeks improved disaster communications
The FCC chairman tells a Senate committee that interoperability, better protocols and a comprehensive national alert system would help in future crises.
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Congress pushes for more resilient telecom
As congressional lawmakers probe the weak, uncoordinated government relief and recovery responses to Hurricane Katrina, they have begun pushing for better communications networks that are interoperable and resilient.
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Records management, geospatial profiles on deck for the next inning of the FEA
Agency officials worried about records management are about to get some help from the Federal Enterprise Artchitecture.
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Next, agencies must sell non-IT managers on the benefits of EA
Agency IT officials say they are beginning to find value in using enterprise architecture to reduce the number of processes, which they expect will ultimately save them money.
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DOD is out to sell Congress on its business architecture
The Defense Department plans to give Congress evidence, rather than just promises, that it is improving its business systems.
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Former Defense official recommends combining reforms with the QDR
A former Defense comptroller told the House Armed Services Committee that the DOD should focus on infrastructure modernization, acquisition and financial management reform in its upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review.
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Federal XML group updates guidelines
Three years is a long time in the field of information management.
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Census maps its 2010 population count
The Census Bureau is finding that the best way to get employees to buy into an enterprise architecture is to let them participate in developing it.<@SM>
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Telecom firms ready hurricane relief
They sent additional emergency equipment to Texas and Louisiana in preparation for Hurricane Rita.
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A few agencies can measure improvements
Despite having an abundance of performance measures to determine effectiveness, agency managers generally do not use them to inform their decisions any more than they did several years ago.
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Velazquez questions readiness of SBA’s disaster management system
The Small Business Administration’s new centralized disaster management system may not be in a position to provide efficient relief for small businesses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, according to Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.)
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