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Law enforcement agencies explore semantics
Technology could help in collection and analysis of data.
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Education gets new IT chief
William Vajda, a former NSA information technology official, will oversee the department’s IT efforts to gather data for student assessments under the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Welles: Are you really ready to retire?
Employees approaching retirement need more info and less wishful thinking about their options.
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Editorial: The need for advice
There is a real need for objective recommendations from groups that can take the time and effort to study important issues, dissect them and present them coherently and cohesively.
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Service families to get free PCs
Operation Homelink and CDW-G will present 100 refurbished computers to families of the U.S. Army 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, so they can communicate with service members overseas.
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The test of e-gov: efficiency and effectiveness
Although the Office of Management and Budget has long touted savings as the chief benefit of e-government initiatives, some current and former government officials say the White House could be leaving out a critically important measure—effectiveness—in their efforts to gain congressional support.<@SM>
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Census Bureau seeks consulting support
It wants to observe best practices from the 2010 census to apply to the 2020 one.
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Air Force awards $4.8M contract to BPC
The company will provide management, supervision and personnel for the Air Combat Command’s Air Operations Squadron Mission Control Center at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
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FirstGov, USDA portals rank as top government sites
Web sites operated by the General Services Administration and the Agriculture Department topped a recent Brown University analysis.<@SM>
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Report: Government Web sites need uniformity
“State and Federal E-Government in the United States” ranks FirstGov as the top federal site.
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SSA solicits encryption info
The agency's telecommunications office is seeking contractors that can provide a commercial encryption product for data in its Windows 2003 file servers.
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DHS awards EAGLE contracts
A department spokesman could not confirm who the winners are or how many have been awarded contracts.
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DISA names spectrum office director
Paige Atkins worked at DOD's Joint Spectrum Center as chief of the Aerospace Systems Division from 1988 to 1997.
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Combat Communications Squadron to move to Guam
Based in South Korea, the squadron is responsible for rapid mobile communications deployment for wartime contingencies or natural disasters in the entire Korea area of operations.
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Nasdaq notifies GTSI of possible delisting
In other news, the company promoted its vice president of finance and corporate controller to senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.
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OPM channels recruits through TV ads
The four ads airing in West Virginia are part of a nationwide campaign to attract qualified and skilled Americans to the federal civilian workforce.
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Vice chief of staff: Air Force needs newer planes
Gen. John Corley tells an Air Force conference that aging aircraft, space assets and infrastructure present a huge problem for the current and future Air Force.
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