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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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To feds' good health
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking for funding to beef up efforts to ensure the safety and health of federal workers.
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IT pay study will cost agencies
The CIO Council wants agencies to help pay for a study of compensation in the information technology work force.
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Survey: Americans e-mailing public officials
A survey by E-ThePeople.com found that 12 percent of the public has tried to contact a government official by e-mail, though only 5 percent of those were acknowledged
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DOD awards health system contracts
The Defense Department's Health Affairs office this week awarded two contracts worth nearly $400 million to replace DOD's home-grown computer system with an automated information system.
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Y2K hindered White House e-mail fix
Reconstruction of a system that will be used to recover lost White House email was put on hold last year to deal with Year 2000 compliance
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IT executives talk shop at NASIRE
Trends and issues surrounding digital government dominated the association's midyear meeting
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Renting may solve federal IT woes
Application service providers companies that rent out computer applications and services, and sometimes the machines themselves are an option government agencies should
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One government, on the Web
FCW's DotGov Thursday column points the way toward integrating government services on the Internet
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Cities populating World Wide Web
Cities are quickly joining the electronic government craze by providing information and services online, an informal National League of Cities poll has found.
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Flexibility, funds wanted for work force
Greater flexibility and a bigger budget to recruit and retain IT workers will make it easier to find and keep the right people in today's tight labor market, a Senate subcommittee was told
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VA's CIO leaving for private sector
Harold Gracey, the acting chief information officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, is retiring June 1 following a 30year government career
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Agencies losing cyberspace race
From the vantage point of Capitol Hill, members of Congress are watching the race to cyberspace, and they see the government trailing far behind the commercial sector, according to a panel of congressional staffers.
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EPA trying to ease toxic reporting
The Environmental Protection Agency is developing 'intelligent' software to guide users through filing reports online about the release of toxic chemicals
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OMB issues e-government pointers
Agencies encouraged to use hightech solutions to reduce paperwork and ensure security
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Police intranet made easier
The Redmond, Wash., Police Department has chosen software that will allow police to quickly post information on an intranet without assistance from information technology staff.
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Army workers get online benefits access
Civilian employees will be able to access an automated center via the phone or the Internet
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Roster Change
Paul Domich last month was named acting director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Boulder, Colo., laboratories.
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HUD setting up data warehouse
To better manage lowincome housing nationwide, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has hired MicroStrategy Inc. to develop a data warehouse
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