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Contractors vie for Future Combat
Program considered integral to Army's plans to become lighter and more lethal
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CIOs: Politics not prompting e-gov
Officials at the CIO Summit say advances in technology are driving the wave of government change
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Cray upgrading Army supercomputer
The Army has awarded Cray Inc. an $18.5 million contract to upgrade the Army's High Performance Computing Research Center's Cray supercomputer
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Officials mull future of Trail Boss
Government contracting officials are considering ways to use the nowdiscontinued Trail Boss contracting training program to provide management and security training for nextgeneration agency IT staff
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Medicare.gov made senior-friendly
To ensure that its Medicare.gov site was seniorfriendly, the Health Care Financing Administration made the print larger and the content easier to read.
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Agencies want FAIR feedback
New guidance put out by the Office of Management and Budget may not produce much of an improvement on the first round of agencygenerated lists of activities that could be performed by the private sector
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Idaho launches new Internet site
Idaho launched a new state World Wide Web site last week, a portal for access to many electronic government services
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USPS adds certified e-mail
The Post Electronic Courier Service enables customers to create and send messages via the Internet through a postal account and the USPS data center
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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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