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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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Intercepts

Missed call. Stop-work orders galore. TEIS selects. Stryker system issues ironed out.

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NASA bungles e-mail policy

Directive wrongly implied that employees should not answer public inquiries

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E-training companies go after federal market

A recently announced partnership between Macromedia and Plateau Systems illustrates the growing demand for e-learning technologies in government agencies.

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Social Security turns to Lockheed Martin for records scanning

Under the blanket purchase agreement, Lockheed Martin will scan paper medical and nonmedical records and create digital images for transmission.

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E-gov foundation gives agencies opportunity to do more, Evans says

The way Office of Management and Budget administrator for E-government and IT Karen Evans sees it, agencies now have the foundation to make technology work for them in ways that couldn’t have been imagined four years ago.

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GSA issues final reorg order

GSA has formally signed the order to create the Federal Acquisition Service, which will replace the Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service.

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Gingrich: 'Paper kills,' electronic medical records save lives

Katrina has shown beyond doubt the necessity of moving to electronic records, policy figures argue.

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AT&T gets Air Force intell deal

Company will provide data processing capabilities at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center

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Trouble ahead for Census and e-gov funding

Senate plans to reduce requested Census Bureau 2006 funding would suspend the American Community Survey and increase the cost of the next decennial census, the White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy.