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Intell turf battles rage
Major portions of a bill that would authorize appropriations for the U.S. intelligence community would significantly limit the Defense Department's ability to support military operations, warn Defense Secretary William Cohen and his top military adviser.
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Trusted at Treasury
Don Hagerling doesn't wear a uniform. His basement office at the Treasury Department is nonthreatening no cameras, monitors or metal detectors, not even a signin sheet for visitors.
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Dependable systems
The central problem in information technology management has shifted. Runaway systems development projects have given way to a new central concern that of making systems dependable.
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Air Force consolidates readiness information
An Air Force lab has developed an application that, through a combination of smart cards and database integration technology, could provide commanders with uptotheminute information on personnel readiness.
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Navy zooms in on imagery intelligence
Technology that has delivered highdefinition television to tens of thousands of 'Monday Night Football' fans may soon furnish the military with digital imagery intelligence.
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DOT becomes courseware carrier
Federal users have less reason every day to build their own World Wide Webbased training sites.
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Letters to the Editor
As an agency information technology manager, I am strongly in favor of an overall federal chief information officer.
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A tall order for FirstGov
Everyone is talking about e-government. That's puzzling because no one can say what e-government really is and so no one really knows what's being talked about.
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E-learning gets easier
For agencies setting up Internetbased distancelearning systems, the market is brimming with choices
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Agencies tap Fed Learn's online training
The demand for technology-based education is so rampant that the Federal Technology Service launched a contractual services program to help agencies sort through the multitude of offerings.
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Addition by subtraction
Working with Computer Sciences Corp., the IRS has developed a plan to phase in a master database, put even the most complicated forms online and make it easier for taxpayers to talk to the IRS.
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U.S. defends crowded spectrum
The United States has successfully blocked mobile satellite communications companies from laying claim to part of the radio spectrum allocated to the Global Positioning System, but the government now faces a threat from a new communications technology.
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The cost of modernization
Medicare could lose $140 million a year in interest if the Health Care Financing Administration reduces the number of days doctors must wait for payment for services.
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Learning tech skills from scratch
To carry out the mission of Census 2000, the government had to raise and train a small army.
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E-government watch
This is a roundup of news and commentary from conferences and speeches around Washington, D.C., last week.
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FAA, Customs testing drug sniffer
Security officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Customs Service are testing a new document scanner that can detect minute traces of illicit narcotics on airline passenger boarding passes.
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Modern IRS on track
The Internal Revenue Service's modernization program is on track, with plans to phase in a master database that will enable the IRS to keep track of each contact the agency makes with taxpayers
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Intercepts
My mobile receiving station parked outside the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md., reports that a woman will be leading the first effort to roll out the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.
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Security champion leaving government
Richard Guida, longtime champion of security within federal agencies, will be leaving moving to the private sector at the end of the year
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