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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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A primer for what government should do online
Three economists offer 12 rules of the eservices road.
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Online court records under review
The most personal information lies carefully cataloged in the nation's courthouses
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Pentagon revamps systems tests
The Pentagon is accelerating a sweeping initiative to improve joint operations among the services by ensuring that their key systems can exchange information seamlessly.
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Public/private standoff
Electronic business experts predict that the line between electronic services that should be provided by government and those that should be provided by business will continue to blur.
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Election Day winner: The Net
Vice President Al Gore and George W. Bush have had to wait to find out who has been elected president, but election returns Nov. 7 pointed to one clear winner ? Internet voting.
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Navy, Marines miss latest DMS deadline
The Marine Corps and Navy missed the Sept. 30 deadline to shut off access to Autodin, an aging communications network for sensitive and classified messages
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Election Day winner: Online voting
Voters in six states cast ballots over the Internet, and the procedure won overwhelming endorsements from voters and election officials
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