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Senate drops restrictions on e-gov funding
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development did not follow the House’s lead in restricting how agencies contribute money to e-government projects.
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BearingPoint takes access card contract
Integrator will support Common Access Card program and help DOD comply with mandates regarding biometrics.
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OPM renames online learning portal
The governmentwide portal for online learning will now be known as USALearning.gov.
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DHS personnel system buy draws Hill ire
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) has launched a critical inquiry into the Homeland Security Department’s decision to award a blanket purchase agreement to Northrop Grumman Information Technology for the $175 million MaxHR project to build a new personnel system.
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Former Peace Corps CIO named CIO for Minnesota
The appointment comes a month after the governor launched the state’s new Office of Enterprise Technology.
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MIR3 and Intrado form partnership
Both companies provide emergency notification systems, and as a team, will pursue government opportunities.
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Talk radio
Just as the USB standard lets you connect a PC to different hardware devices, Project Safecom officials expect the P-25 standard to let different narrowband radios work with one another.
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E-debit card reduces food stamp errors
The Agriculture Department has cut $1.4 billion in improper payments over five years from its Food Stamp program by adopting an electronic benefits card, and aligning state and federal benefit criteria.
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DOD asked to look at centralizing IT
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to know if centralized DOD IT spending would solve its data sharing and interoperability problems.
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Information sharing has a dark side
Although information sharing could prevent another terrorist attack, it could also create a single point of failure, a DHS CIO warned.
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Veterans Health Administration reorganizes
New VHA undersecretary puts his stamp on agency's organization chart to streamline the program that delivers health care to vets.
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Senate to consider DOD CIO nomination
Raytheon exec John Grimes tapped to succeed Linton Wells, John Stenbit
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Senators seek to fast track FBI's Sentinel
Lawmakers question the 2009 start date for the FBI's IT improvements.
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DHS says CFO reports to Chertoff
DHS fixes its organizational chart so the CFO reports directly to the secretary.
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DOD business systems still under fire
Weaknesses in DOD's enterprise architecture work need to be addressed, a new GAO report states.
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Seattle switches to new planning, development system
The city's new system could serve as the blueprint for the way other departments in the government handle planning and project management.
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Young Government Leaders now at 300 members
Megan Quinn started the group in 2003 with eight other federal employees who were recent college graduates.
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Navy to navigate digitally by 2009
NGA and Northrop Grumman help to make navigation easier and more accurate.
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