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Eagle Awards honor two
Bruce McConnell, former director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center, and Jerry Edgerton, senior vice president for MCI WorldCom (now WorldCom Inc.), won Eagle Awards last week for outstanding accomplishments in the world of federal information technology.
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Making sense of governmentwide security
The call for a federal CIO has its roots in information security.
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Make way for the IT czar
Roger Baker, chief information officer at the Commerce Department, ignited a fierce debate last October when he publicly endorsed the idea of establishing a federal CIO, often referred to as an 'IT czar.'
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Steering a course to a less taxing government
Early in the morning, Midori Morgan-Gaide is not thinking about computer systems.
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Weighing Web solutions
Cost savings. Some organizations can cut the number of agents needed to service their current query volume; others can avoid future costs by being able to do more work with the same amount of personnel.
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Back to school ? via the Internet
Defense Department officials charged with providing education assistance programs to military personnel are hoping to improve the operations of base education centers by linking them to special career assistance and academic databases via the Internet.
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How to recruit a federal CIO
There is a growing conviction that the nation needs a top-notch information technology chief to make e-government a reality.
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Savings for the future
Here's what to expect when the new Thrift Savings Plan system is completed next year
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Company builds e-gov portal for Denver
A private company has partnered with The Denver Post to build a World Wide Web site to give Denver-area residents access to government services.
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'Solutions integrator' catching on fast
Threeweekold Amitex already boasts the Department of Veterans Affairs and numerous local governments as clients
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GSA moving to open WebGov portal
The General Services Administration plans to have the longawaited governmentwide Internet portal in operation this fall
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Air Force vision focused on IT
The Air Force has a worldwide reputation for precision bombing, but information technology will define the service's future
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National missile defense on track
A panel of experts finds that the technical capability to field a limited national missiledefense system is available and that the schedule should not be changed
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Internet brings Alaskans, government closer
Until the Internet made electronic government possible, many Alaskans had little contact with government at any level ? local, state or federal
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Salt Lake County introduces digital signatures
The county will conduct seminars to teach banks, title companies and others about the technology
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$10M available for crime-reporting systems
The money will help states to participate in the new National Incident-Based Reporting System
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