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Man on a mission
Bob Dies' mission and he has chosen to accept it is to use his privatesector experience to bring the FBI into the modern age of technology
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Clinger-Cohen cards incomplete
Although federal agencies are making progress with plans to rely better on chief information officers and manage information technology, they have not come far enough, according to a new congressional report.
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Portal passes student exam
High school senior Adam Talleri, who used FirstGov for the first time to find information about college programs for studying in Japan and Asia, complimented the site's directory of topics.
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Transformation defined
Gen. Eric Shinseki, Army chief of staff, announced a year ago that the service would transform itself into a lighter, more mobile and more deadly force capable of responding to any crisis within 96 hours.
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Networks on the ballot
National elections change the networks and directions of governments, while human and electronic networks help manage change and transform risks into opportunities.
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Disabled workers left behind
Information technology has dramatically increased the productivity of the nation's workforce, but disabled people who might benefit most from technology have largely been left behind
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Net expectations
Much of the Internet hype that gushed forth in the 1990s is beginning to wilt under financial and cultural realities. The predictions by hip technology magazines that the Internet, with its free flow of information, would put media conglomerates out of business and make government obsolete now look naive and, well, wrong.
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Army's IT steps ahead in measures
The Army has made real progress over the past year, transforming into a lighter, leaner, more lethal force, but the information technology piece of that transformation may be more evolutionary than revolutionary, according to service leaders.
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Communities split millions to fight divide
Nonprofit groups and local governments are getting $14 million from the Commerce Department for IT projects to fight the digital divide
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Catch flu information at NYC site
The city's health department has a system that enables people to search for a nearby place to get a flu vaccination
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Service pipes in federal contract help
Epipeline offers federal contractors of all sizes a new online tool to help them research, track and try to win government contracts
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Portland phoning in permit process
Officials in Portland, Ore., say their new interactive voice response system is saving time for both employees and contractors.
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USPS casts for employee Net access
The Postal Service is inviting computer vendors to bid for the right to sell USPS employees computers and operate a postal portal
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Agency help sought to ID child porn sites
A federally appointed panel wants law enforcement agencies to compile a master list of newsgroups, Web sites and IP addresses found to contain child pornography
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Report: Feds must work on IT worker shortage
The federal government should play an active role in alleviating the tight labor market for IT workers, according to a report by the National Research Council
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Military not ready to jump on board NMCI
Although NMCI has been touted as an example for the all of DOD, some highranking officials are taking a waitandsee approach
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Site peddles government surplus
Liquidation.com, a company that specializes in finding buyers for surplus items, is going after the government market
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Teams map DOD paperless procurement
The Defense Department has teams in place to guide the implementation of DOD's endtoend paperless procurement process
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Spacecom handling cyberattack, defense
Space Command is considering whether to form a unified subcommand to take charge of computer network defense and attack missions
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