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Regulation brewing over Net
After years of allowing the Internet to evolve with few restrictions, the government shows increasing eagerness to rein in the Internet
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Letter to the editor
I read your article in Federal Computer Week regarding the National Research Council report on relieving information technology worker shortages, and I would like to share my views as a federal employee about how the government recruits personnel for IT positions.
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Blurring the lines
The very idea sent shudders through the fastgrowing field of electronic tax preparation earlier this year. A giant in the tax business was thinking of entering the industry the Internal Revenue Service.
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The case for access
The Judicial Conference of the United States spells out alternatives for regulating access to legal records, both at court-houses and online. For example, the alternatives for civil case files
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Where e-government and e-business compete
Employment services: The Labor Department runs America's Job Bank, which posts 1.5 million jobs for free. Private employment firms offer similar services.
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A patent improvement
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is now receiving the first of what could be tens of thousands of patent applications filed electronically this fiscal year.
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Risky business
As director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Frank Fernandez would rather see someone try and fail than never try at all.
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HUD IT under house arrest
In a rare public rebuke, Congress recently criticized the Department of Housing and Urban Development for its poor personnel management practices and for siphoning money from its information technology budget to cover unrelated expenses.
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Raise gets mixed reviews
The Office of Personnel Management's plan to raise the salaries of about 33,000 information technology workers in government has drawn both praise and disappointment from employees
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Boeing, Lockheed to study next-gen GPS
The Air Force awards Boeing, Lockheed contracts to study options for the nextgeneration Global Positioning System
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Commercial push renewed
The Pentagon's Nov. 6 announcement that it is revising regulations governing the purchase of commercial products for information systems doesn't break new ground so much as confirm trends in procurement, according to military officials.
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Mental health parity
Federal employees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program will receive the same coverage for mental health and substance abuse as they do for other illnesses, starting with the 2001 plan year.
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Keep the 'e' in e-gov
As federal agencies hurtle headlong into digital government, industry leaders and economists have begun to raise questions about what services are and are not appropriate for agencies to offer online.
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Pay raise particulars
Who: Computer specialists (GS334), computer engineers (GS854) and computer scientists (GS1550) in the GS5 through GS12 grades.
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NTIS hiring freeze draws ire
The National Technical Information Service workforce is dwindling under a hiring freeze imposed by the Commerce Department, according to an advisory commission.
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FDIC pilots online auction
Following a successful pilot, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may be near the end of the line with its traditional method of selling loan pools through sealedbid, offline auctions.
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NMCI gains momentum
At least one management headache is out of the way. Despite spending millions of dollars on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet procurement, none of the three losing bidders protested the Navy's Oct. 6 award to Electronic Data Systems Corp.
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