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How secure are security clearances?

Recent guilty plea of former FBI, CIA employee calls the process into question

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Bush codifies program improvement

New executive order institutionalizes PART and sets up formal accountability processes

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DOD program manager: Know Army needs before bidding

Gary Winkler, program executive officer for DOD's Enterprise Information Systems, is working to reduce the number of contract protests.

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President 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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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.