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DOD: SPS makes headway
The Defense Department is making progress in moving its users to its new Standard Procurement System, which is designed to eliminate the paper from the department's contracting process.
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E-government not clicking for feds
The federal government has more than 20,000 World Wide Web sites, but the plethora of pages doesn't mean the federal sector is speeding toward a functioning electronic government, according to Alan Balutis, cochairman of the federal CIO Council's EGovernment Committee.
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Experts: Center won't affect NMD
Experts say they view the agreement to build the earlywarning architecture as an important step to improve nuclear safety, but they downplay the impact the new center could have on the U.S. decision to field a limited national missile defense (NMD) system.
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Not e-gov but e-governance
The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a new program to look beyond information technology for developing online applications to establishing the policies and practices that are required to meet veterans' needs in a digital government.
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Railroad agency rolls toward e-commerce
The Federal Railroad Administration is on track to complete the installation of Oracle Federal Financials, a commercial offtheshelf software platform that will enable the agency to easily link its financial management system to new electronic commerce applications.
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The geography of networking
The U.S. military has established alliances with dozens of nations to carry out operations.
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Training new cybersleuths
President Clinton's initiative to attract students to work as federal information security experts in exchange for tuition reimbursement is moving one step closer to reality.
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'My N.C.' on the way for citizens
People will be able to customize the state portal, much in the way people can choose their favorite content on World Wide Web sites like Yahoo
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Putting the success in succession
If your senior information technology executives leave for another job or retirement, do you know who will take their place?
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FAA gives exec planning a lift
For the Federal Aviation Administration, succession planning makes practical business sense: It is important to the agency's future success.
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U.S., Russia launch joint missile-warning center
Building on the success of a joint Year 2000 venture, Pentagon and Russian military officials have signed an agreement to build a hightech center near Moscow where both sides can monitor the globe for ballistic missile launches.
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Delivering the goods
The Navy is teaming with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a graduate program to help Navy personnel better manage how the military develops and deploys its defense weapons systems.
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Legacy code decommissioned
The Air Force is embarking on a project to transform millions of lines of outdated though still widely used mainframe software code into a much more flexible Javabased system that is accessible via the Internet.
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Failure to communicate
When the Pentagon released its new strategic road map last month that outlined how it plans to prepare for the hightech battlefields of the future, it confirmed what senior officials and experts have said for years: The U.S. needs its allies and coalition partners.
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Web workshops produce IT work force research
Using the results of two workshops conducted entirely on the Internet, the National Science Foundation has released two reports on the information technology work force
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Democrats' party line: Free Web access
In a bid to tap the appeal of the Internet, the Democratic National Committee is offering free Internet service to anyone with a computer and a telephone line
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