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House may take DHS to the woodshed
Unfinished work drives bill to strip $800 million from new budget.
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Troubled JTRS hits another roadblock
The Army's Joint Tactical Radio System program has stalled again because service officials have issued a partial stop-work order to General Dynamics.
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Eggers: Government 2.0
In this excerpt from his book, William Eggers says that IT is about more than just saving money. It's about transforming operations.
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HHS posts health IT contract plans
The Health and Human Services Department has released presolicitation notices for the development of a nationwide health information network architecture and a process for interoperability of electronic health records.
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Depository librarians face uncertain future
Controversy swirls around GPO plan to cut back on print titles.
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USDA issues draft plan for animal IDs
The Agriculture Department has released a draft plan for tracking animal movements to speed its response to potential outbreaks such as mad-cow disease.
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Governors still oppose Real ID
It will be expensive and technologically problematic, the National Governors Association says.
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Case management projects and shared-data standard gather steam
The Justice Department and the FBI are looking to set a standard by which law enforcement officials can more easily share information and let other agencies develop similar systems based on the requirements.
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Fairfax expands e-pay services
The Virginia county government will be using Govolution for more than 30 applications.
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Base closings hit Army IT
The Defense Department recommended closing Fort Monmouth, N.J., the site of many of the Army's warfighting and business information technology organizations.
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Navy gives Godwin additional NMCI oversight responsibilities
The Navy’s assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition has named Rear Adm. James Godwin the direct-reporting program manager for Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
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New office will try to keep IRS project specs in line
Before the IRS’ new taxpayer database finally saw the light of day last year, it had to be cured of an extreme case of scope creep.
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House signals FCS cuts
The House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee reviewed or marked up the Pentagon’s 2006 budget.
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Two DHS IT projects enter troubled waters
The Homeland Security Department’s Emerge2 and Transportation Worker Identification Credential programs, two of its most critical management and security projects, are delayed and facing scrutiny from high level officials as well as congressional auditors.
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OMB eyes duplicate e-gov projects sharply
The Office of Management and Budget has analyzed agency IT investments—Exhibit 53s—to determine if they use systems that duplicate any of the 25 e-government projects, the Lines of Business Consolidation or the enterprisewide software buying effort known as SmartBuy.
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TSA looks for performance data
The Transportation Security Administration seeks information on creating a nationwide system for collecting data on the performance of screeners.
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PACKET RAT: Sun’s swing toward open-source knocks the Rat for a loop
The house was full at the Reagan Federal Building auditorium for Sun Microsystems’ quarterly “Network Computing” road show—which is what happens every time someone mentions a free lunch in Washington.
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IRS sticks with Lambert for CFO
The acting Internal Revenue Service chief financial officer is staying on as the tax agency’s permanent CFO.
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Skinner slams DHS network
DHS officials did not consult users and skipped key security measures as it developed the Homeland Secure Data Network, the inspector general says.
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