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Intercepts
My Treasury Department snoops report that the department is preparing to deny a protest from a Lotus Development Corp. reseller who claims that his company has not been given a fair shake in supplying an alternative to Microsoft Corp. products.
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E-buys stir small-biz fears
The push for paperless government may do more than eliminate mountains of paper it may exclude small businesses from the procurement process.
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Rx for the digital divide
The Health Resources and Services Administration recently announced the launch of a pilot program that will provide Internetbased medical records for physicians and patients nationwide in HRSAfunded community health centers.
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Feds losing paper chase
Congress wanted to know how well federal agencies are carrying out the 1995 Paperwork Reduction Act, so the General Accounting Office wrote a 20page report. You don't have to read between the lines to learn that results are not good.
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Online training takes off
Tight budgets and lean staffs prompt big investments in computerbased training
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How to operate in 'Netscape time'
Few would argue that the government must become leaner, lighter and more agile to meet the challenges of the Information Age. Dwindling resources and the highspeed nature of electronic business demand that federal agencies adopt industry's most effective tactics.
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Fed-friendly regs
The Office of Personnel Management wants to give feds a break. OPM in February issued proposed regulations that would permit fulltime federal employees to use up to 12 administrative work weeks of sick leave each year to care for a family member with a serious health condition.
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You've come a long way
The framers of the past decade's procurement reforms, which released agencies from old purchasing regulations and bureaucratic red tape, probably couldn't have imagined just how much and how fast government would transform the way it buys information technology.
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IT vacancies add up
The information technology work force's number is up: 843,328 IT positions will go unfilled this year, according to an Information Technology Association of America study.
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Marketers monitor dot-gov sites
NASA's World Wide Web site has seen such an increase in visitors that it seems like everyone got a new computer for Christmas, said NASA Webmaster Brian Dunbar. These days, on any given week, the space agency's site receives about 2 million hits.
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CIA tackles records nightmare
The CIA has embarked upon an agencywide data standardization and systems integration effort after a report by the National Archives and Records Administration found severe weaknesses in the agency's program for preserving key government records.
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Feds still legally immune
Every time a government employee makes a decision, there is a good possibility that someone will be unhappy with the result. Often, the party who is disadvantaged by the decision will seek redress from the government employee's agency.
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Congress legislates, procrastinates on tech
Not all members of Congress are as technologically savvy as the people they represent.
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Bill would cut tax on employee computers
An act introduced in the House seeks to spread computer use by making it less expensive for workers to buy and use them
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Texas awards $19 million electronic benefits deal
The Texas Department of Human Services' EBT system - the largest in the nation - will deliver temporary aid and food stamps electronically to about 1.4 million recipients
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NASA pact eases Web-based training
NASA has created a vehicle for its centers nationwide to order World Wide Webbased training services from a choice of five vendors
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E-Government spending set to explode
State, local and federal spending for e-government will jump from $1.5 billion in 2000 to more than $6.2 billion by 2005, according to an analyst group
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OMB fills IT policy post
Dan Chenok has been named chief of the Information Policy and Technology Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
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