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Northcom pushes DISA for third U.S. teleport
The additional satellite hub, linking deployed units to the Global Information Grid, would provide backup if a disaster or attack disabled the primary teleports.
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Fee-for-service taking hold for e-gov: OMB
Agencies are expected to spend more than $300 million on services from many of the 25 E-Government initiatives in fiscal 2007.
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Gates' Iraq focus could impede modernization at DOD
Defense Secretary is handed the challenge of balancing current and future priorities.
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Kelman: More management insights
A learning-oriented workplace produces more positive achievements but also more mistakes.
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E-gov satisfaction score stalls, ASCI finds
Aggregate citizen satisfaction with the 87 federal Web sites measured improved only 0.3 percent from the third quarter to 73.9 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale.
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GAO: Agencies nearly out of time for IT exchange
With only one year left to begin exchanges, participating agencies are still getting programs under way.
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OMB to release metrics for 18 e-gov projects
The Office of Management and Budget on Monday will release the performance metrics of 18 of 25 e-government initiatives as a part of the annual E-Government Report.
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House makes blogging easy
Using the House Web Log Utility, members of Congress can blog through their official Web sites.
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Sade leaves Commerce for GSA
The overseer of Commerce's small-business COMMITS contract will lead acquisition management at GSA.
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GSA announces settlement in liability case
GovConnection paid $2.55 million to settle the claim it had overcharged federal agencies, but it did not admit liability.
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GSA schedule sales increase in 2006
But an analysis from Input shows the GSA schedules’ IT services sales declined 6.5 percent compared with last year.
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Former GSA official Ed O’Hare to return
O’Hare will be assistant commissioner of FAS’ Office of Strategic Business Planning and Process Improvement.
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Connecticut town adopts e-mail service
Stratford turns to running software as a service to provide e-mail to town offices.
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Former OMB chief architect Haycock to retire
Bob Haycock, whose 30 years in government include time as the Office of Management and Budget’s first chief architect, is retiring Jan. 3.
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Land Warrior will deploy despite budget cut rumors
The program has enough funding for fiscal 2007 and developers are confident that Congress will support the deployment, according to program officials.
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Senate confirms new SBA deputy
Jovita Carranza is an experienced business executive who spent more than 30 years at UPS.
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Trace Systems to seek DOD, DHS wireless network sales
The newly formed systems integrator is led by Otto Hoernig, who sold Spacelink International to Engineered Support Systems last year.
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IDC: E-voting has long way to go
According to a new study, electronic voting systems still have a long way to go before they will generate an accurate, timely and secure voting process.
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Northcom's new C2: collaboration and communications
The command is using that phrase instead of classic military "command and control" to emphasize the need for agencies to work together in emergencies.
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