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OPM taps State agency as newest E-Training service provider
The Office of Personnel Management has added the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute to its E-Training faculty.
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Pilots resist FAA rule on cabin surveillance
The proposed rule would require airlines to install equipment in airplane cockpits for monitoring suspicious cabin behavior.
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DHS seeks comment on Safecom survey
The department will identify specific projects to improve emergency communications based on the public’s perception of the state of interoperable communications.
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Corda gets text technology patent
It can be used in text-to-speech applications for people with visual impairments.
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OPM tackles retirement systems
Congressional auditors said earlier this year that the agency's $294 million retirement systems modernization effort was at risk.
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JFCOM, Lockheed Martin sign R&D agreement
They will work together on future battle command technologies.
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Army equips Baghdad embassy with e-health system
U.S. Embassy medical employees use system, which runs on laptops, to request and access lab tests.
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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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