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Bush to name IRS commissioner

The president plans to nominate Douglas Shulman, while Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. appointed Judith Tillman to be commissioner of the department’s Financial Management Service.

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Letter: Agencies should boycott ACS

The way the company treats its lower-level employees is disgraceful.

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10-fingerprint scans to start at Dulles airport

Foreign visitors arriving at the Virginia airport will have all 10 fingerprints scanned starting Nov. 29.

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Idaho health department taps ACS for benefits management

Affiliated Computer Services will provide pharmacy claims processing, automated prior authorizations, help-desk support, prospective and retrospective drug use reviews, and federal and supplemental drug rebate administration and reporting.

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IG: DHS wrongly awarded contract to Alaska Native firm

A coding error is to blame for the improper award of a 10-year, $475 million sole-source contract to Chenega Technology Services.

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Circuit

The holiday buying season; explaining Coburn’s no e-gov vote; it's all relative

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Wilkinson to leave GSA

The General Services Administration’s chief acquisition officer Molly Wilkinson has resigned after a short seven-and-a-half month stint.

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Nonfiction cyberwar

Military leaders come to grips with cyberwar beyond the pages of science fiction novels

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Measuring green

Agencies turn to service-level agreements and other forms of performance contracting to achieve new energy efficiency and electronics stewardship goals

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The environmental executive

Edwin Pinero's job is to make the federal government a model environmental citizen

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OMB: Agencies improve finance reporting

Nineteen of 24 agencies, one more than last year, received clean opinions on their fiscal 2007 reports.

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Senate confirms new Army CIO

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson replaces Steven Boutelle.

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E-Gov Act reauthorization begins

Although the law expires next month, lawmakers have only recently begun working on its reauthorization

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Navy offers high-level EA view

Officials say a federated approach can help officials make better IT decisions

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White House homeland security adviser to leave

Frances Townsend has resigned after three and a half years in the job.

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State Department proposes new contractor ID rule

It would add language to its acquisition regulations to require contractors to use interoperable, smart identification cards to gain access to State buildings and systems as required by HSPD-12.

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White House homeland security adviser Townsend to leave

She may be the last to hold the position because having a specific adviser to the president on homeland security has evolved and is no longer needed, the Heritage Foundation's James Carafano said.

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Lawmakers hit DHS on cyber plans

Langevin questions viability of a voluntary approach to critical infrastructure security

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Procurement chief chides IGs

Paul Denett speaks out against auditors who he says may be overstepping their bounds