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OMB to add internal controls requirements to PMA scorecard

The Office of Management and Budget will add implementation of milestones for tighter internal controls to federal agencies’ ratings for the President’s Management Agenda scorecard during fiscal 2006. <@SM>

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WIN-T system design works

General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin demonstrate key technologies for the Army’s future battlefield comms system.

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CSC, Unisys win IT support work

Integrators get new military orders for Web development and software support.

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Bonner to retire from Customs and Border Protection

As former customs commissioner, Robert Bonner oversaw the merger of three agencies and 42,000 employees into the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

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Harris County sheriff uses new integrated biometric solution

Motorola teams with Viisage for facial recognition and other capabilities for Texas law enforcement.

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DHS privacy officer to depart

Nuala O’Connor Kelly, the first chief privacy officer at the Homeland Security Department, announced today that she is leaving her position.

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Senate looks for lessons from alternative pay systems

Senator says lawmakers and agency managers should study how alternative systems are working before changing to unproved systems.

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Justice helps police with free mapping software

Earlier this month, the Justice Department handed out free software to police as part of a new crime prevention system.

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Kentucky and New Mexico authenticate political campaign sites

The new technology creates a registry of genuine sites to make it easier to spot fakes set up to defraud donors or misinform voters.

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Service-oriented components advance transformation

The government’s vision for IT architecture that focuses more on citizen services than agency functions will become slightly clearer next week with the release of two new descriptive service components, said Dick Burk, the government’s chief architect.

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Boeing gets more FCS funds

The Army awards the company a $219.2 million increment under a $17.4 billion contract.

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GAO raps procurement data system

The next-generation system is hard to use and information is out of date, analysts found.

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DOD signs Symantec enterprise deal

The company’s products and services are now available at reduced prices.

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Miller: More valuable than ever

CIOs have been elevated to a critical security role since Sept. 11, 2001.

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Fortifying DOD's network defenses

Incremental steps will not do, security experts say

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Navy tightens tech use

New policies aim to increase security, stop abuse

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Senator: Bring back radio alert system

Sen. Ted Stevens has suggested that the country should return to broadcasting Cold War-era radio emergency alerts as part of a new national alert system.

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Circuit

Public satisfaction with federal Web sites up again

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Census awards $500 million for 2010 project

The Census Bureau has awarded a six-year, $500 million contract to Lockheed Martin to capture and standardize 2010 census data.

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Editorial: Procedures be damned

Most people would be hard-pressed to justify how one Federal Emergency Management Agency official responded to questions about the slow delivery of medicine to emergency shelters along the Gulf Coast.