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NARA joins World Digital Library project

The National Archives and Records Administration will contribute digital versions of historically and culturally significant documents to an online international library expected to come online early next year.

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GAO: States need more fed help preparing for pandemics

States remain weak in the areas of critical infrastructure, food safety reporting, and facilitating a medical care surge, the GAO found.

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Hawley: Secure Flight set to take off

The Transportation Security Administration's Secure Flight program should be online in some form by January, the agency's administrator said today.

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Denett: Agencies can compete more contracts

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy asks the acquisition council to create a group to boost competition for contracts.

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GAO says pre-award audits protect prices

Pricing tools can keep tabs on how much contractors' charge the government compared with other customers, the Government Accountability Office reports.

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Leaders say TWIC testing should be free

The chairman and ranking Republican of the House Homeland Security Committee oppose the 25 percent share of the cost of a program to test TWIC that DHS wants to charge port operators.

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SSA launches online retirement estimator

The Retirement Estimator links to a person’s actual Social Security earnings record, so the user does not have to manually key in years of earnings information, the agency states.

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FCW Insider: The return of Lurita

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Politics and bureaucracy hinder program performance

Agency managers face several obstacles to successfully leading large projects.

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DHS seeks cybersecurity capability info

The Homeland Security Department has requested information from vendors on how they can help the department with the EINSTEIN and TIC cybersecurity programs.

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The FCW Exit Interview: Robert Burton

Before retiring last week as deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Robert Burton sat down with FCW.

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IG: Disability claims caught between DOD, VA

The Veterans Affairs Department needs tighter controls and more oversight to accelerate claims processing for seriously disabled veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the IG finds.

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Field named deputy OFPP administrator

OFPP policy analyst takes a top position in federal acquisition

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Group honors GSA's IG, other whistleblowers

Government employees who exposed misdeeds are praised in a watchdog group's report.

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FCW Insider: The presidential candidates and IT

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DISA expands cloud services

DISA now provides a self-service approach with the Rapid Access Computing Environment.

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House defeats paper ballot funding

Privacy advocates are not happy that the House decided not to fund an effort to provide a paper-based backup system to electronic voting.

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FCW's The Week

Find links to articles in the July 21, 2008, issue and related items.

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FCW Insider: Jerry Williams rumored to be the next DOI deputy CIO

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