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Kelman: Asking the wrong Katrina questions
Reporters fail to ask the right questions about Katrina contracting.
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Federal portals see continued customer satisfaction: ACSI report
Customer satisfaction with government Web sites increased once again last quarter, although there is still need for improvement, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
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Brinkley: BEA ready to transform Pentagon
The time has come in the Defense Department to stop creating a business enterprise architecture and start implementing, a senior DOD official said.
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Commission recommends voting safeguards
One panel member dissents from the official report, saying ID provision would exclude too many eligible voters.
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298 pages of problems at USPTO
A panel of experts has made dozens of recommendations for fixing management and workforce problems at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an agency increasingly criticized for the quality of its work and a mounting backlog of patent applications.
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Medicaid contractor builds electronic drug record on the fly
The Health and Human Services Department began providing electronic drug data on Katrina evacuees to doctors working in shelters last week.
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Public satisfaction with federal Web up again
Federal Web sites continue to climb in the public’s estimation, according to the latest quarterly rankings.
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Hurricane Katrina gets her own DHS IG
The Homeland Security Department's inspector general is creating an office that will specifically focus on Hurricane Katrina issues.
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Military Health System appoints CIO
Retired Army colonel spent 26 years in Army Medical Service Corps.
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Kelman: The blame game
The president's sudden warning about the dangers of the blame game thus gives one the feeling that he can dish it out but he can't take it.
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VA IT budget under scrutiny
The VA's IT organization affects all aspects of the department's IT spending, including My HealtheVet.
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Hula Hoop, Rubik's Cube ... enterprise architecture?
Scores of systems that should share data cannot do so, and the government has missed opportunities for improving processes.
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GPO's newest job: A digital czar
GPO announced that it promoted Thomas "T.C." Evans, deputy superintendent of documents, to the new position of assistant chief of staff for strategic initiatives.
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OMB considers transition costs for centers providing bad service
Federal customers dissatisfied with third-party financial management services may gain the power to ask service providers to pay them to transfer allegiance to a competitor.
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Real-time weather alerts silenced
NWS, WeatherBug and telecommunications company officials have labored to restore communications at stations that transmit weather information.
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Lisagor: Old dogs, new tricks
As effective managers, we need to listen at least as often and as well as we speak.
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Ohio library offers virtual help in Spanish
Professional librarians from 50 library systems are available around the clock to answer reference questions.
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OFPP administrator, facing criminal charges, resigns
David Safavian was arrested on charges of making false statements and obstructing an investigation by GSA’s inspector general when Safavian was chief of staff at GSA.
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FBI focuses on IT capabilities
FBI officials are counting on the bureau's new Office of Information Technology Policy and Planning (OIPP) to tame the sort of undisciplined IT spending that led the FBI to abandon its $170 million Virtual Case File system earlier this year.
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