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OMB updates core financial-system requirements
The Office of Management and Budget has updated core financial-system requirements that agencies must fulfill to meet federal guidelines to better manage their programs under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act.<@SM>
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IRS names advisory committee members
Seven new members join the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee.
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IT drives NGA's new vision
The intelligence agency emphasizes technology to improve data sharing.
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Responders to use DOD-grade simulation
DHS awarded a contract to a defense supplier for a PC-based 3-D training system.
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DHS to hold industry day on border security
Online registration is available now for the Jan. 26 Secure Border Initiative Industry Day.
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GSA pushes E-Authentication
Contract for free credentials and digital certificates designed to encourage public to use online services
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Energy revamps Web site
The Energy Department has revamped its central Web site to better reflect the agency’s core missions.<@SM>
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Ciber site tracks returning soldiers
Families can get real-time information on the status of flights bringing their loved ones home.
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TSA shares Registered Traveler details
To keep terrorists guessing, participants will still be subject to additional random screening.
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OMB wants more EA reports
The agency issued a new assessment framework and will require quarterly progress reports.
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OMB looks to orchestrate financial management
Agencies to get performance measures, guidance on how to pick providers when they’re moving to shared-services providers
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DHS moves quickly to redirect Emerge2
Early metrics didn’t look good, so the agency will adopt shared-services model
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Study: EHR adoption will miss goal
A study concludes that it might take a decade longer than Bush envisioned to have e-health records for most Americans.
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IRS enhances Free File service for 2006 filing season
More than 70 percent of the nation’s taxpayers—more than 92 million people with an adjusted gross income of $50,000 or less—qualify this year for Free File. Tax filers access Free File services through the IRS.gov Web site.<@SM>
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Army plans to use thin-client systems
The service wants to streamline IT at bases the Base Realignment and Closure Commission slated for shifting.
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Wennergren named CIO Council vice chairman
David Wennergren, Navy Department's chief information officer, is the new vice chairman of the CIO Council.
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Marines tell Accenture to stop work
The company was going to design and implement a new logistics system.
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Flyzik to leave consulting firm
Jim Flyzik, a longtime information technology executive in the federal government, is leaving Guerra Kiviat Flyzik and Associates to join the Flyzik Group.
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