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Measurement kit: First aid for CIOs
FCW's Dot-Gov Thursday column provides basic, yet essential, information to help CIOs better manage an agency's IT assets and services
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DOD expanding biometrics rules
The Pentagon is considering a new policy that would require all biometrics products to be evaluated using the Common Criteria Scheme
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Safety agency expands Web services
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has expanded the services available on its doityourself Web site
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EDGAR spiffed up during holiday
The SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system will be upgraded for full transition to the Web over Thanksgiving
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Pentagon commands commercial solutions
DOD has rewritten an acquisition regulation to speed up procurements of weapons and information systems
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Every patent ever issued goes online
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has expanded its Web database to include every American patent ever issued more than 6.5 million
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Roster Change
Retired Brig. Gen. Regner Rider joined Veridian on Nov. 1 as vice president for command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) programs. He will help the company expand its presence in the C3ISR domain.
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Poll: Public hopes e-gov leads to accountability
State and local government officials see the Internet as a way to improve efficiency and save money, but a nationwide poll shows that the public sees it as a medium with the potential to make govern
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More access, yet divide persists
In five years, 75 percent of U.S. households will be linked to the Internet, but a digital divide between lower- and upper-income classes will persist because of the cost of high-speed access and people's lack of Internet experience, according to a massive, recently released study.
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Florida ports seeing STARS
Three Florida cities are buying low-cost imaging systems from Science Applications International Corp. for their seaports to help stem illegal exports of stolen automobiles to Central and South America.
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Public goods, personal use
The Office of Personnel Management recently made public its policy of permitting limited personal use of government office equipment by OPM employees. This policy governs equipment such as personal computers and related hardware, software, Internet services, email and office supplies.
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Cold feet on e-commerce
State and local IT shops have come a long way with electronic commerce.
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IRS presses its paperless project
The Internal Revenue Service, flush with money and new ideas for digitizing customer service, is turning up the heat on its huge modernization project called IRS Prime
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Military on NMCI watch
Although the Navy Marine Corps Intranet is being touted as an example for the entire Defense Department, some highranking officials are waiting to see how the Navy manages such a huge project.
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Beware industry 'principles'
If you have not felt the slaps, you will soon. The challenges issued for the most part by industry associations over the appropriate role of government in the age of egovernment have begun in earnest.
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Configuration data: Go figure
Information technology departments are under pressure to cut or at least hold down costs while delivering improved services to users.
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Data on demand
The Pentagon is collaborating with five countries on the Smart Sensor Web project, a sweeping effort to weave together the most extensive sensor program across the Defense Department into one World Wide Weblike battlefield system.
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Groups still fall through the Net
Internet access is rapidly increasing across ethnic, racial, economic, geographic and gender groups, but according to a recent Commerce Department study, the gap is widening between certain minority groups and the national average.
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