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GSA selects Aquilent for FirstGov.gov refresh project

The General Services Administration has awarded Aquilent Inc. an $836,000 contract to provide services for the design and testing of the rebranded FirstGov.gov, the company said today.

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Kelman: An ounce of prevention?

IGs are one-note Charlies. Good contracting people can play a symphony.

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PITAC returns as part of PCAST

President Bush is reviving the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee by folding it into the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

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Beat the clock

The mounting pressure the IRS faces to modernize how corporations, nonprofits and, eventually, individuals file tax returns isn’t coming from Congress or from impatient taxpayers.

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GIS comes to the rescue

After hurricane, geographic systems vital to disaster relief

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Feds enroll in institute to keep up-to-date

Not everything a chief information officer needs to know can be learned on the job. Some CIOs say they have to step away from their day-to-day responsibilities to gain a broader perspective and see what lies ahead.

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Web extra: GIS aids the Coast Guard

Geographic information system experts give officers the coordinates they need to rescue people after Hurricane Katrina.

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Agarwal tapped to lead California's new tech department

P.K. Agarwal has been vice president of Affiliated Computer Services since 2003, but he has served as a California state official for many years.

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Google: Fit for intelligence work?

Some question whether search engine can detect complex patterns

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FirstGov completes its search

Government Web portal will use search engine that clusters results

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Web extra: GIS volunteers offered expertise during Katrina

GISCorps assembled a team of experts to support relief efforts.

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Amtower: Migrating feds

Is government seeing the start of a mass exodus?

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Feds train to achieve Six Sigma results

Discipline has saved the Navy millions on 500 projects

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ACS wins state Medicaid work

New Mexico pact could total $82.5 million for integrator and is just the latest deal in a customer relationship dating to 1994.

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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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Intercepts

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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DOD EA Version 3.0

Troubled Pentagon effort to create a business architecture tries again

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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.