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CIOs: Going the way of the dinosaur?
Top management is looking for someone well-versed in business strategies as well as technology architectures
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Congress pushes intelligence reform
The Senate last week released a report on the fiscal 2001 intelligence authorization bill that took aim at several highprofile, costly intelligence programs and outlined a plan for rebuilding an intelligence community it says has been overwhelmed by the Information Age.
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Air Force's Kirkland named 'Trail Boss of the Year'
The 900member Trail Boss Interagency Committee on Tuesday named Air Force tech officer Susan Kirkland its 2000 Trail Boss of the Year for her work building the Air Force's Cargo Movement Operations System.
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Mass. health care providers opt for PKI
The pilot program will help medical organizations handle confidential information such as claims, authorizations and contract issues
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EPA easing flow of data
The Environmental Protection Agency has launched an initiative to improve the flow of information among federal and state agencies that collect environmental data and the organizations that provide it.
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IRS revving up online efforts
The Internal Revenue Service is stepping up its campaign to move nearly every aspect of the tax return business online in the next several years.
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Work force tops CIOs' worries
Information technology staffing remains a top concern among government chief information officers, according to a recent survey. But that does not mean CIOs are ready to turn their work over to private contractors.
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New center targets Internet fraud
The Justice Department on Monday announced a center where the FBI and other authorities will collect and analyze consumer complaints about suspected fraud on the Internet
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DOD to boost health system
The Defense Department's Health Affairs office last week awarded two contracts totaling nearly $400 million to replace DOD's homegrown computer system with an automated information system.
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Naval network maneuvers
If you buy the notion that the Internet will ultimately be connected to everything, if not everybody, then the Navy's desire to roll out a monolithic, allpurpose service network might seem prudent.
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Army caches hackers
The Regional Computer Emergency Response Team (RCERT) at Fort Huachuca has installed seven World Wide Web caches for Army customers across the country, according to Robert Kane, principal network security engineer for the team. Kane sets up caches to defend the public Web sites of various commands against being defaced by hackers.
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Defining e-government
Do you think about your refrigerator and consider it "technology"? Of course not.
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Coast Guard sends SOS
Coast Guard officials plan to make commercial offtheshelf technology the centerpiece of a 20year, $9.8 billion project to modernize the service with new ships, aircraft, communications and sensor equipment.
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Flexing in the face of competition
Changes to how agencies recruit and retain workers are essential if the government is to remain competitive, congressional and agency officials said last week.
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New firm offers full e-purchasing platform
The effort is a collaboration between NIC Commerce and Bank of America Corp.
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