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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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Northrop Grumman chooses state and local VP
Jill Kale will become vice president of strategic program management, transitions and processes.
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OMB releases new version of DRM
The Office of Management and Budget has posted the second version of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model, designed to boost cross-agency sharing of information.
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First advanced GPS satellite goes live
The Air Force and Lockheed Martin put into operation new military and civilian signals to improve encryption and accuracy.
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USPTO to let examiners work at home
Officials said the agency must offer alternative work arrangements to attract and retain high-quality employees.
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Former Energy security chief joins Input
Bruce Brody, a former associate CIO at DOE, will lead the research firm's security consulting practice.
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GAO: Tech can reduce immigrant benefits backlog
A new report states that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services must create a system that tracks applications.
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NASA tries to sound more down-to-earth
The Web manager said the agency's site should communicate technical concepts clearly to nonscientists.
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OMB sets new e-gov goals
A report showing that some targets were not met in 2005 outlines new standards for 2006.
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GSA contract for FedBizOpps under protest, again
Development InfoStructure Corp. of Arlington, Va., once again is protesting the General Services Administration’s award of the contract to run the government procurement portal to Symplicity Corp. of Arlington, Va.
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After finding success in 2005, OMB sets e-gov bar high in 2006
In its annual Expanding E-Government report, sent to Congress to coincide with the third anniversary of the E-Government Act of 2002, OMB said agencies fully reached two of the five goals it set last year and came close on two others.
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Chertoff: FEMA improvements due soon
DHS' secretary hints at plans for departmentwide improvements.
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DOJ wants new criminal justice tech
The National Institute of Justice may offer as much as $1 million for evaluations of new technologies.
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