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DISA planning DMS upgrade
Hundreds of management workstations used in the Defense Message System will be replaced because of technical glitches and outdated software
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Juggling act
For years now, as the government payroll has gotten smaller, federal agencies have been told they must learn to use technology to 'do more with less.' In the coming years, doing more with less likely will mean outsourcing some IT projects altogether, which creates a new set of management problems.
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E-recruitment
For many agencies, the next generation of IT leaders is already toiling among their ranks, but with the projected exodus of IT workers during the next five years, other agencies will need to attract new talent.
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Performance is agency's trademark
Work force- and technology- related changes at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appear to have broad support since USPTO officially became a performance-based organization (PBO) in March.
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Portals New Starting Point for Service
State and local governments looking to build World Wide Web portals these days have a healthy market of software and services from which to choose.
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For Success, the Top-Down Approach Isn't Enough
To build an e-government, you need e-workers. That is the simple premise of an ambitious proposal put forward last month by U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).
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Internet Use Spikes Across Borders
StarMedia Network Inc., a New York-based Internet media company targeted at Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences worldwide, recently released the results of its second annual user study.
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Internet for Everyone: Georgia City Finds a Way
When LaGrange, Ga.'s Information Technology Committee considered wiring every household, school and business in the community with a high-speed Internet connection, they worried about creating an unsocial community dependent on the Internet for communication.
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Gore: Been there, done that
While Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush prepares a blueprint for a smaller, more effective, technology- assisted government, Democratic hopeful Al Gore claims that such a government is already under construction, thanks to his National Partnership for Reinventing Government initiative.
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Breaking the Language Barrier
Florida Leads an Effort to Welcome Latin American Business With its Bilingual Web Site
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Army deploying Gigabit Ethernet
Network will provide Fort Carson users with a sixfold increase in bandwidth compared with the Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks
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Debugging Telework
'If I can't see them, how do I know they're working?' is a common reaction to the idea of telecommuting among agency managers (indeed, among managers everywhere).
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Training managers online
A new contract for Webbased training represents several firsts for NASA employees: It's the first time a single contract delivers online training agencywide, and it's NASA's first online offering that includes career development as well as technical skills.
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NetClerk Offers Contractors Do-it-Yourself Permits
Every time someone sells a water heater, another person has to get a city permit to install it. A typical store might move 1,000 of those water heaters a month. That's 1,000 permits; 1,000 forms to be filled out; 1,000 potential headaches.
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Bush to fight back with e-gov plan
George W. Bush is preparing for the role of federal technologist in chief. Bush's campaign staff says the Republican presidential candidate is not ready to discuss details. His plans for egovernment and government reform are still being fashioned by aides, including Stephen Goldsmith, a top domestic policy adviser and former mayor of Indianapolis.
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NIMA charts new course
The Defense Department's National Imagery and Mapping Agency plans to pump at least $850 million into private industry under a massive outsourcing initiative, according to the agency's top officer.
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Public services get a hand
Agencies are increasingly turning to the private sector for solutions and partnerships that will help the government become more customeroriented, officials said at the Information Processing Interagency Conference in Orlando, Fla., last week.
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