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NC develops skills

The governor’s office will devote money and personnel in developing the state’s Center for 21st Century Skills program.

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Circuit

E-mail is not with us. What passport? Women vets on a roll. Not your father's golf game. KM awards.

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CMS offers an incentive for doctors to use health IT

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is dangling before some physicians a deal they might not want to refuse.

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Q&A with Maureen McCarthy

FCW interviews the director of the Office of Research and Development in the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Director.

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DHS scholarship program fosters new tech skills

Program encourages science and technology expertise.

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DHS looks at procurement risk

Officials plan to try a new approach to evaluating companies and their products before awarding a contract for a departmental intranet portal.

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Fight over driver’s license standards

Sensenbrenner pushes his controversial bill

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Shopping for data

Lawmakers have tough questions for largely unregulated data firms.

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Radios aid relief workers

A satellite radio system developed to aid relief workers could serve as the basis for a global tsunami warning system.

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Operation Tsunami Aid

DOD uses IT in biggest relief effort since Berlin airlift.

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IRS increasing CADE capabilities, cutting refund time

The Internal Revenue Service will enhance its new taxpayer database to handle select exceptions in the simplest tax returns.

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A few minutes with ... David Walker

Tough decisions must be tackled now to save the country from a not-so-distant crisis, says the comptroller general of the United States.

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Congress to OMB: More oversight needed

Evans argues the task should not be a paperwork exercise.

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Slowing the brain drain

The Rising CIO Stars Forum entails finding an auditorium, inviting a few experienced IT executives and then advertising to attract an audience.

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A record e-filing season

More taxpayers go online rather than lick stamps.

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Spend more on training, OMB exec says

Transforming government will require increased funding for workforce training, Clay Johnson says.

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Airport security enters new phase

Airports in Boston, Denver, New York City, Orlando and Salt Lake City will test new security devices.

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Proponent of open government

McDermott: Feds closing the door to information.

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Profiles in leadership in government IT

The winners of this year’s GCN IT Leadership Awards are a highly diversified bunch.

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Eagle has landed at Wright-Patterson

The new supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the military, will be used for modeling, simulation, testing, evaluation and weapons system design.