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Comings and goings

News about Robert Garrity Jr., Phillip Bond, Mark Boster, Amy Vaccari, Bob Golas, Jeffrey Dodson and Rob Bongiovi.

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IRMCO honors tech work

CIO Council and Interagency Resources Management Conference officials announced annual awards for the best IT work in government.

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Fixing the retirement system

OPM in a race against time.

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NSF to fund digital government

The National Science Foundation will award up to $12 million in fiscal 2006 for research related to digital government, universal access and digital libraries.

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Circuit

Bates goes Topside. Omnibus again? Weather or not. Pitching in. Return to sender.

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Indian Health Service to share e-health system with NASA

The Indian Health Service will share its electronic health record and patient management system with NASA.

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DHS changes, past and future

With Cooper's departure, some talk about giving the CIO more muscle.

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OMB taps Koch to fill final e-gov portfolio position

OMB has named Jeff Koch to oversee the Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness e-government portfolio.

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OMB and Congress at odds over budgeting

Appropriators often put politics above efficient government.

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Committee vice-chair: Fund e-records research

Lawmakers expressed strong backing for the 70-year-old National Historical Publications and Records Commission, said Bruce Craig, director of the National Coalition for History.

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Lisagor: Organizational tapestry

The best managers share information in an open and collegial manner.

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CIO Council seeks to clarify boundaries

Group formalizing private initiative guidelines.

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NHS needs health IT personnel

There's a global shortage of qualified professionals who understand both health care and IT, says the director general of the United Kingdom's health IT project.

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Into the backup fold

DOT's centralized backups improve protection of remote office data.

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PC refresh strategies evolve

The goals: lower costs, tighter security, and more flexibility.

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DOD wants joint radio fix

Boeing could lose deal if it fails to provide improvement plan.

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GovBenefits to let agencies design their own front pages

Instead of giving agencies one benefits portal, the Labor Department’s e-government project will let agencies create their own benefits Web pages and use a search filter to integrate with GovBenefits’ back-end database and rules engine.

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As GAO watches, IRS works to patch security holes

The IRS, caught in a thicket of IT security problems, is hoping to be mostly out the woods by fall.

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DHS mulls choice of passport technology, as lawmakers clash

Senior federal IT policy officials are facing a technology choice that also has set off fireworks in Congress: Should Uncle Sam accept digital photographs, as well as smart chips, as biometric identifiers in foreign passports?

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DHS to business: Help us

The department wants to enhance security without unduly burdening companies or limiting trade, the DHS secretary says.