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No need to fear FAIR Act?
Agencies have declared 195,000 federal jobs to be 'not inherently governmental,' but there is little likelihood that many will be outsourced soon
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Search may be over for fingerprint tool
Law enforcement agencies may soon get a longsoughtafter investigation tool a national fingerprint search system thanks to a drive toward standardization
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Committee advances cybercrime bill
A bill that allocates more federal money to agencies that investigate cybercrimes has been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee
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Cincinnati breaking into 'new economy'
Cincinnati is trying to promote greater high-tech growth and more digital government
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EDS wins Navy intranet deal
The Navy has awarded Electronic Data Systems a $7 billion contract to build the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet
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Marine base switches routers
To ward off major messaging bottlenecks, a premier Marine Corps base is switching from software to hardwarebased routers
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DOD acquisition reform chief departing
Stan Soloway, the man who has headed DOD's acquisition reform initiatives for the past two years, is leaving government to lead a trade association
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Florida ports seeing STARS
Cities are using imaging systems to be able to detect if cars are being smuggled overseas in cargo containers
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Technology-based training gets a lift
The White House approves recommendations designed to accelerate the use of technology in federal training programs and create a bettertrained federal workforce
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CIO Council preps for transition team
The CIO Council is gearing up to present ideas to the incoming administration on the benefits of and barriers to government IT
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Rule enforces electronic food stamps
By Oct. 1, 2002, states must have electronic benefits transfer systems in place as an alternative to delivering food stamp coupons
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Agency scaling back mountain of paper
After a year of testing, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will accept electronic documents as substitutes for paper in some cases
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Chicago lets citizens map crime
With a new Web-based system, the Chicago Police Department is allowing residents to check on crime in their neighborhoods
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Procurement reform leader leaving GSA
Bill Gormley, assistant commissioner at the Office of Acquisition in the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service, is retiring from government service
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Senate passes H-1B visa bill
The high-tech industry hails the Senate's vote to increase the number of H-1B visas issued over the next three years by nearly 300,000
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Digital library to open databases
Connecticut libraries, schools, hospitals and agencies will be able to connect to a single statewide resource that will include full-text databases
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FBI forks over first Carnivore documents
A privacy group anxious to sink its teeth into the FBI's Carnivore program was disappointed after the agency withheld large portions of material
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Congress approves H1-B visa bill
The hightech industry hails the vote to increase the number of H1B visas issued over the next three years by nearly 300,000
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