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ManTech wins $114M Army task order
ManTech International won an Army task order to support countermeasures for improvised explosive devices.
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Navy extends NMCI pact
The $3.1 billion contract extension locks in 15 percent seat price reduction.
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Intercepts
Joint Staff to get first woman C4 director; Hacker warning note: Don’t mess with MDA; The vanishing IG report; The Army network vision thing.
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DOD issues final rule on non-DOD contracts
The rule clarifies the circumstances under which DOD officials could use contracts that originated in other agencies.
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Border Patrol to expand UAV usage
A success so far, unmanned aerial vehicles also cause concern for some officials.
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Taxpayers move to the Web
Percentage of taxpayers filing electronically is up from last year.
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Employees like IRS remote access project
It also saves the agency money, the associate chief information officer for enterprise networks said.
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Audio archives could become inaccessible, engineers warn
Tapes and records could deteriorate, making audio archives useless, so urgency is needed to transfer them to digital media.
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FBI CIO: You get what you pay for
The bureau's CIO says there is not enough money to pay for essential IT services such as e-mail.
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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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