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SAIC's military maneuver
Under a $6.3 million Army contract awarded to Science Applications International Corp., information technologies developed for hospitals, universities, businesses and schools would be used to command missiledefense systems
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Hill puts lid on cookie jar
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) last week added an amendment to the Treasury/ Postal appropriations bill calling for a moratorium on agency use of 'cookies,' small bits of software placed on a Web user's hard drive.
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Seat Management: What it is and how it works
Seat management refers to outsourcing desktop computers and their related software, hardware, maintenance and help desk support.
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From .gov to .com
FedBid.com's Gracey finds happiness in industry after decades in government
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VA dispatches digital copiers
To reduce the amount of equipment that telecommuters have to lug home and maintain, the Department of Veterans Affairs is issuing home office-class multifunction printers from Hewlett-Packard Co. to employees who work from home.
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Navy reaps savings with biz tool
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Newport, R.I., has saved as much as $1.5 million a year as a result of a business intelligence program that has helped the agency eliminate unneeded paper and personnel and redundant data entry costs, according to officials at the center.
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OPM pitches IT job family
The Office of Personnel Management last week proposed a new job family for federal information technology occupations that would make it easier to recruit and retain IT workers.
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DOD reining in software buys
The Defense Department has approved a draft version of a policy that would direct the DOD information technology community to first consider using existing Pentagon programs for all commercial software purchases before orchestrating major acquisitions.
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What's up with Seat?
When the General Services Administration awarded the first desktop outsourcing contract two years ago this month, many agencies met the deal with skepticism and even downright disdain.
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Four thumbs up
The five agencies that have awarded task orders from the General Services Administration's Seat Management contract run the gamut in terms of size and environment.
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Army fights skills gap online
The Army is hoping to keep its highly skilled troops already sought by the betterpaying private sector in uniform by making them even more highly skilled.
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Tracking agency performance via the Web
For several years, agencies have struggled with how to use performance measures to improve the way they manage and budget their programs, including the ones driven by information technology systems.
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Portrait of a displaced Navy intranet worker
When the Navy awards its longawaited N/MCI contract in September, it will substantially alter the government careers of nearly 2,000 IT workers
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Restructuring the NSA
Recommendations to NSA director Michael Hayden to improve NSA management:
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Funding to help farm agency go digital
The Agriculture Department has received an extra $38 million to help modernize systems at the Farm Service Agency to accommodate ebusiness
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House targets spy center in Cuba
In political fallout from the Elian Gonzalez saga, the House passed a bill that calls for Russia to shut down a massive listening post in Cuba
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IT, security funding advances in DOD bill
The House passed a defense appropriations bill for 2001 that includes more than $250 million for IT programs
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