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DOD pushing forward on Internet disconnect
The Pentagon plans to continue developing the capability to pull the plug on all of its Internet connections for security reasons when necessary
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Online census filing declared success
Census director hails the 70,000 people who found the way to file online
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Housing Sites
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has also made e-commerce work for the agency.
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Bulgaria for the People
Proponents of digital government envision the Web providing a way for the public to directly interact with government employees. Visions of taxpayers submitting last-minute tax questions to an IRS agent are not too farfetched, online experts say.
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Access takes center stage
Section 508, an amendment to the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, requires federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities.
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10 that click
These sites offer unique services that show what digital government can provide.
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New wave of Web sites
The World Wide Web has had a dramatic impact on government's ability to communicate with the general public. Just watch what happens as federal agencies really begin to work at it.
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Education's early groundwork
Three years before the Access Board drew up its accessibility standards, the Education Department had created similar ones through the Assistive Technology Program, which provides services and technology to the department's disabled employees.
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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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