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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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Fixes not so tough, disabled say
The good news about complying with Section 508 is that many fixes although they will have some cost are relatively easy to make, especially when systems are still under development.
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Drag a Wild Horse
The Bureau of Land Management has put online auctioning to work to fulfill one of its missions.
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Web-time Travelers' Aid
Government has information and lots of it. In fact, collecting information is its business.
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HTE launches e-government gateway
The software company's city and county customers will be able to offer people online transaction capability
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Web links students, colleges
The Education Department showed off its COOL online college database last week as it prepares to begin an entirely World Wide Web-based data collection system.
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Building the perfect portal
Although enterprise information portals (EIPs) promise to simplify employees' access to information, they are not simple to build.
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Environmental permits going online in N.J.
The state's Department of Environmental Protection hopes that the online option will get companies permits faster and with less hassle
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Chicago aims to revamp education
The city has announced a major plan to get every city school capable of preparing a technology-literate work force
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National Weather Service names CIO
Shukri Wakid is the first chief information officer at the National Weather Service, the agency announced Thursday
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New York goes online with fishing access sites
People can find out where to fish and how to get there from the state's new Web sites
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Web may help rule-making process
FCW's DotGov Thursday column suggests that an agency could use its Web site to help it through the regulatory process
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