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Commerce gets Senate nod for e-gov money
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved late Friday approximately two-thirds of the Commerce Department’s fiscal 2005 e-government budget.
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Plugging DOD's network holes. Titan Rain presentation. Able Danger IT angles. Grand Challenge rules.
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FEMA IT problems predated Katrina
Even before Katrina, DHS' IT systems were so disconnected and inadequate that employees needed to develop ad hoc, often paper-based alternatives
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GSA fills out Federal Acquisition Service management
The General Services Administration has named the heads of each of the seven functional offices that make up the new FAS.
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DHS budget slices $23M from HR system
The House and Senate have agreed to cut spending on the Homeland Security Department’s new human resources management system by $23 million for fiscal 2006.
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DOD's network defense to remain decentralized
Despite increasing attacks on its networks, the Defense Department will continue to protect them the way they do now -- at least for the time being.
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Perry resigns GSA post
Stephen Perry, administrator of the General Services Administration since 2001, has resigned from the agency. His resignation becomes effective at the end of the month.
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The e-government main event: Congress vs. OMB
Lawmakers constrained Commerce from transferring funds to e-gov in fiscal 2005
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Bill would give feds e-health records
A second forthcoming bill would set into law the government's national health IT coordinator and set milestones for federal agencies’ work to advance health IT.
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DHS EAGLE RFP released
The Homeland Security Department has issued the final request for proposals for its new procurement program for IT services.
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Tennessee renews NIC Web portal contract
The state uses a self-funded model to pay online services, in which the contractor pays for Web portal development costs but makes money from convenience fees.
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DISA seeks collaboration IT
Vendors asked to provide ideas under the $800 million Net-Centric Enterprise Services program.
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Justice bureau deploys more predictive analytics software
Tools can cross-check crimes with similar characteristics, idenitfy suspects who behave in similar ways and spot anomalies in collected data.
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Law enforcement net goes IP
The 41 million-plus transmissions carried by the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System each month can now be encrypted.
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Ciber gets aerospace contract
The consulting firm will help a NASA center develop a curriculum for its engineers.
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Blum gets competitive OMB post
Federal competitive sourcing initiative manager Mathew Blum will become OMB's new associate administrator for competitive sourcing.
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IG: Inadequate IT hobbled DHS’ 2004 hurricane response
The IG cites an unintegrated IT environment that sometimes required paper-based workarounds devised at the last minute, but FEMA's CIO defends the agency.
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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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