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GAO: US-VISIT still needs work

The program has improved immigrant processing at land ports, but it does not provide adequate management controls, according to a new report.

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Welles: Looking back at 2006

I predicted last year that telework and retirement planning would be at the forefront of work/life concerns in 2006, and I was right.

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SiloSmashers gets new VP of business development

Bob Golas comes to the company from Savi Technology.

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Northcom beefs up emergency response

New organization structure brings NGOs and private sector into command center.

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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.