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CherryRoad protests Army portal contract award
CherryRoad Technologies, which currently operates Army Knowledge Online, has protested the Army’s award of the AKO Enterprise Services contract to Lockheed Martin.
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House e-gov restrictions find faint echo on Senate panel
Senate panel votes to fully fund Transportation CIO office and ignores other House actions on e-gov.
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Labor scores green sweep on President's Management Agenda
Executive agencies have made significant improvements in their management practices in the past four years, score cards show.
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Senate drops restrictive e-gov language from spending bill
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee did not follow the House’s lead in restricting how agencies contribute money to e-government projects.
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3 agencies submit to Extreme Hiring Makeover
The experiment tested the suitability of private-sector hiring practices for the government, and broke at least one speed record.
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Senate committee seeks GSA reorg sign-off
A Senate Appropriations Committee spending bill would prohibit GSA from reorganizing without approval by the House and Senate appropriations committees.
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Labor goes 5-for-5 on PMA
It took exactly three years for the Labor Department to reach perfection on the President’s Management Agenda scorecard.
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Senate subcommittee limits competitive sourcing
Subcommittee votes to prevent agencies from converting federal jobs into private-sector ones without letting government workers compete.
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Input predicts broad telecom growth
Homeland security, defense transformation and e-gov projects are cited as factors.
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Pragmatics gets biometrics support contract
The National Ground Intelligence Center has awarded Pragmatics a one-year, $1.5 million for biometrics intelligence support contract.
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Dickson forms consulting firm
Bob Dickson, a vice president at Acquisition Solutions, will work closely with Guerra, Kiviat, Flyzik and Associates.
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Federal groups to help states with intelligence strategies
Joint effort will produce guidelines for looping public safety, transportation sectors into homeland security intelligence fusion centers.
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Homeland Security Department to provide geospatial data to cities
Geospatial data will enable authorities to track suspicious activity, locate points of interest and gather other information.
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Justice seeks faster fingerprint tech
Feds put muscle and money behind the development of better fingerprint and palm print technologies.
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CMS assessing patient health record development for Medicare recipients
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking industry comment to determine how involved the agency should be in the development of personal electronic health records for its target populations.
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Chinese military targeting DOD tech
A new DOD report states that China seeks “electromagnetic dominance” early in wars.
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OPM contract expands number of e-learning vendors
Federal agencies will have more than 59 vendors in six specialized areas to choose from for their online learning services under a new contract awarded by the Office of Personnel Management.
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White House issues civil service reform proposal
The Bush administration proposal would phase out the General Schedule system replacing it with occupation-based pay bands.
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Wooten named to head VA program management office
A retired Naval officer tapped to lead VA's new project management office.
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