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Letter: Bush to nominate new DHS general counsel
Gus Coldebella has worked at the department for two years.
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Air Force to expand radio over IP
CIO Lt. Gen. Peterson called improving tactical communications one of his highest priorities.
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Letter: DOD prototyping policy is long overdue
There is no substitute for experience with a working system -- even if it is just modeled -- to test policies and procedures, technologies and processes, algorithms and heuristics.
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CMS taps Citizant for business modeling
Under the $1 million contract, the company will produce and document business process models to help the CIO make investment decisions.
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State issues new rules for Blackwater
Agency bolsters electronic surveillance of private security officers in Iraq.
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GAO: Census needs more risk management
Information technology for the 2010 census could arrive late and perform badly because of the bureau's poor planning, GAO said.
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DOD plans new media hub at Fort Meade
Some programs the military services now control will transfer to the authority of the assistant secretary of Defense for public affairs next year.
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TWIC card enrollment to begin
Port workers will start enrolling Oct. 16 to receive government-issued biometric ID cards, three months behind schedule.
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Bush threatens to veto a bill that would strengthen IGs
President Bush threatens to veto a bill that would safeguard IGs' authority
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Young promises acquisition changes
New policy mandates use of competitive prototyping in large DOD programs
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HSPD-12 plaintiffs get week extension on paperwork
Three appeals court judges working on the NASA case made the move after deciding they had not had time to consider all the material filed with a motion to extend the deadline.
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Letter: VistA outage not so bad
If nine hours without power leads to months of data entry, woe are we for all the paper systems in use almost everywhere else.
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Otto joins Agilex Technologies
He's the former chief technology officer and chief information officer at USPS.
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Letter: Management, not pay, system is broken
Without effective management, any pay system will be abused and eventually viewed as inadequate and broken.
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IRS: Corporate e-filed tax returns jump
The IRS requires only very large corporations to e-file, but many other business are choosing to as well, the agency reports.
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