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SiloSmashers wins OMB lines of business work
The BPA award includes work on managing programs, facilitation services and workforce planning, and IT strategy.
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Northrop Grumman looks beyond DOD
The defense contractor sees opportunities in health IT and homeland security.
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Spawar tech transfer program gets $50,000 for robotics
Funding is intended to cover research that will make robots less dependent on human involvement.
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GSA to release RFIs for new Lines of Business
The General Services Administration plans to release requests for information and hold industry days for the three news lines of business—IT infrastructure, geospatial and budget formulation—in mid-April.<@SM>
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GAO report catalogs VA/DOD health data sharing projects
More than a dozen projects are under way, but GAO says the departments can do more.
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UPDATED: DHS' Janet Hale resigns
Janet Hale, head of the Homeland Security Department’s management directorate, is resigning effective the end of April.
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Michigan unveils long-term IT strategic plan
The 209-page plan focuses on improving education, homeland security, health care, government, the economy and the environment.
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Satisfaction with government sites declines
Customer satisfaction with federal Web sites dipped slightly last quarter for the first time in a year, although users are generally more satisfied with the information the government has online, the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index concluded.<@SM>
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EPA to close library
Proposed cuts in the fiscal 2007 budget have prompted officials to shutter the agency’s Midwest Regional Library in anticipation of the budget's approval.
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Deborah Kutzleb: Debris database tracks vessel recovery
Post Hurricane Katrina, Kutzleb and Phoenix International produced a database to track of thousands of vessels as the Navy cleared the waterways.
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Lt. Joe Morgan: Quick work aids missing-person searches
Morgan helped the Coast Guard create a system to track missing-person reports in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
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DOD IG: Lack of systems engineering imperils missile system
The Missile Defense Agency has not completed a systems engineering plan or developed a sustainment plan for the Ballistic Missile Defense System, a report states.
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Intercepts
War is hell, 2006 update; Real-life Army/Navy video game battle; A hundred billion here…
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Congress questions financial management consolidation
OMB called to answer for lack of guidance on shared services initiative
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Cyrus G. “Jerry” Lohfink and Jim Preissner: Government/industry team delivers fed paychecks
Working together, Lohfink and Preissner kept Hurricane Katrina’s devastation from disrupting the processing of federal paychecks.
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VA, DOD share clinical data on a large scale
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have finally figured out how to make interoperability a success.
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Catherine Poole: Rules of road guide emergency buys
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Poole helped provide timely information about emergency acquisition procedures.
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Experts: GSA needs leaders fast
With news of another high-level manager leaving, the agency needs to bring in bold leaders to right its course immediately, experts say.
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