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EPA provides business intell, analytics tools in SaaS model
Environmental Protection Agency discovers that, despite a few glitches, Oracle business intelligence software can be shared across the entire agency.
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Writing from the dark side
1105 Government Information Group President Anne Armstrong hopes to shed some light with her new blog, Alinea.
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Spacebook brings secure social networking to NASA
The application is available to all NASA employees via the agency's intranet.
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Klossner: 18 wonderfully goofy ideas from the Open Government Dialogue
FCW cartoonist John Klossner has selected his favorite entries from the national online dialogue, including "Free Pizza Fridays."
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Health IT 'meaningful use' framework proposed
The federal Health IT Policy Committee today began considering a detailed framework for defining "meaningful use" of health IT through 2015.
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Get a Life!: Interview no-no's
If you are hiring for a vacancy or trying to change jobs yourself, avoiding interview no-no's might help, writes blogger Judy Welles.
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Can Johnson right the GSA ship?
The General Services Administration needs a leader who can restore it to its former luster – however beige it might have been.
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Air Force Cyber leader takes office
When Maj. Gen. Richard Webber takes command of the new organization in charge of the Air Force’s cyber mission, he will quickly face the challenge of making the mission relevant.
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Kennedy moves toward health reform
House and Senate Democratic leaders are putting health care reform legislation on a fast track, with information technology provisions on board the train.
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FDA stumbles toward transparency
Despite having little guidance on how to meet the Obama administration's transparency goals, the Food and Drug Administration is moving forward with plans.
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Customers creep away from GSA
During Martha Johnson’s nomination hearing to be administrator of the General Services Administration, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) struck at the core of a major issue for the procurement agency: departed customers.
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Kundra advocates open source
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra includes open source as one of the key technologies to make government work better and more cheaply, but open-source evangelists still see major roadblocks ahead that will take more than lip service — even if it is from the White House — to overcome.
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HUD picks Jerry Williams to be CIO
Williams fills the vacancy left by Lisa Schlosser, who left HUD in December to take a job with the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Virginia CIO ousted in contract dispute
The CIO of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency has been removed from his post in an apparent dispute with the newly installed Virginia Secretary of Technology.
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Soundoff: Feds air complaints about contractors
A number of federal employees take issue with a report that suggest agencies proceed cautiously when converting contractor jobs to staff positions.
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Firm says Chopra wants innovation in health IT
CTO Aneesh Chopra is seeking to improve innovation in government health IT by seeking new procurement channels to increase input from vendors, according to a research firm.
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Government contractors vs. federal employees: How to tell the difference
Like lions and hyenas, Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, the French and everybody, there seems to be a natural conflict here.
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Soundoff: Obama foes pour the hate on FCW
Federal Computer Week, it would seem, is the tool of a fascist government, if not an agency of the government itself.
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