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Don't pounce on failures
When NASA's budget came under pressure in the 1990s as part of efforts to balance the federal budget, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin did what few in Washington do: He accepted cuts without protest, wishing to challenge his organization to take a risk and show it could produce better results at less cost. Thus was born the 'faster, better, cheaper' regime.
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Healthfinder
Probably the industry that government has the most voluminous amounts of data on is health care.
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OMB: No call for IT czar
As the notion of naming an information technology czar gains ground, resistance may be rising among the wouldbe sovereign's closest subjects.
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Research and Development in the FastLane
By October, the National Science Foundation hopes to have all of its research proposals submitted and processed electronically through a system called FastLane.
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Features of the Saba Learning Network Solution
Sets skill and certification requirements for each role in the organization.
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GSA to put portals to work
With access to more than 1 million products ranging from paper clips to tractors, GSA Advantage is truly a shopper's delight. The downside is that this virtual shop can easily overwhelm its many users.
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A window to agency knowledge
Enterprise information portals are helping make government smarter
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Fed records for dummies
With a federal court ruling pending, the Office of Management and Budget has written new rules telling federal agencies to do a better job of making agency information including electronic documents available to the public.
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Networking at NSF
Leaders at the National Science Foundation have decided that the best way to support research and technological development at universities nationwide is to apply information technology at home.
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DOD Opens Up
The other federal agency that faces seemingly infinite amounts of data is the Defense Department. Much of it is classified and kept tightly tucked away, but some of it is made public.
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DTS test flight ready
An early version of the Defense Travel System that will be available to selected personnel this summer won't be connected to the system's central database or Defense Department accounting systems, but it will bring DOD one step closer to automating its travel operation.
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EPA's Earth Day: Indoors, on Internet
The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a 'virtual Earth Day' on Wednesday
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Making documents smarter
Does making government more accessible need to be so difficult? In the Information Age, shouldn't there be an easier way to locate documents and to predesignate what is public and what is not?
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Student Aid
The Education Department has found the best way to encourage interaction with the public ? or at least with students ? is to offer money.
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Web Mining Public Debt
For the National Park Service, interactive doesn't necessarily mean talking to a park ranger, but the service oversees a pair of Web sites that offers up-to-date information on the nation's public parks.
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Rethinking IT
In addition to addressing access to information, OMB's proposed revisions to Circular A-130 attempt to force agencies to exercise better oversight of their information technology investments.
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