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Senate confirms new USCIS chief
Emilio Gonzalez was confirmed as the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at the Homeland Security Department.
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Searching cyberspace for history
Historians and the National Archives and Records Administration are collaborating to monitor auction house Web sites to find missing and stolen government records.
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Telework could ease pandemic fears
Telework would enable people to keep working without face-to-face contact.
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DiPentima joins SRA board
Gail Wilensky, a senior fellow at an international health education foundation, was also elected to the board.
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Hite says lack of EA no barrier to Sentinel
GAO's Randy Hite said the FBI should proceed with building its data management system even though its new enterprise architecture is not complete.
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Flu drug liability attached to DOD spending bill
Congress tacked liability protection for companies developing avian flu vaccines onto the fiscal 2006 Defense appropriations bill.
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Military tests software streaming
A new platform will allow U.S. Air Forces in Europe to centralize IT management, lower costs and improve security.
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DHS extends First Source deadline
Proposals for the $3 billion IT procurement vehicle are now due Jan. 23, 2006.
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VA expands online grave site locator
The Veterans Affairs Department has significantly increased its online list of burial locations and information inscribed on the markers to more than 5 million.
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OMB policy on posting information sparks debate
The new policy asking agencies to improve how they disseminate public information is at the heart of a larger battle over how much categorization is needed to make data publicly accessible.
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UC/Bechtel to manage Los Alamos
The Energy Department awarded a contract worth as much as $558 million to a team led by the University of California and Bechtel National to oversee the lab.
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TSA seeks business plan for Registered Traveler
Vendors have until Jan. 20 to respond to an RFI for the voluntary passenger-screening program.
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GAO to DHS: Directorate must avoid favoritism
The Science and Technology Directorate must ensure that managers don’t award research contracts to only a few select organizations, a GAO report states.
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South Carolina gets a new CIO
Jim Bryant will oversee nearly 300 employees and a budget of more than $66 million.
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Some at Los Alamos unhappy with UC contract
Employees say the University of California should not be allowed to continue managing the lab in light of recent scandals.
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Careerist at State Department named CIO
James Vanderhoff began his information technology career as a communications electronics officer.
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McConnell: Leading from fear hurts us all
The revelations about spying on U.S. citizens and the attendant publicity harm NSA’s ability to perform its mission.
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Robert Dickson joins Apptis
In his federal career, Dickson served on the Government Information Technology Executive Council board of directors.
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E-manifest program expands to southern border
The program is part of a CBP modernization program to improve security and expedite trade at U.S. borders.
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