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FDA to upgrade reporting system for drug reactions

The Food and Drug Administration seeks industry information about how to build a more comprehensive version of its Adverse Event Reporting System. <@SM>

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DHS group wants harmonization, visualization tools

A request for information from a Homeland Security Department group could influence the future of all e-government projects.<@SM>

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Bush highlights IT health architecture, U.S. Visit

President Bush last night gave a nod to two federal IT initiatives in his fifth State of the Union address.<@SM>

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Mueller: No decision yet on VCF

The FBI director said he has been guilty of raising expectations about Virtual Case File.

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Audit faults VCF management

An inspector general blames Virtual Case File's stumbles on poor management and inadequate oversight.

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DHS to lose Verdery

Stewart Verdery, assistant secretary for border and transportation security policy and planning, is resigning his post effective March 4.

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Communications command starts

The Army's new Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command combines three organizations.

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Incumbent vendor wins Geospatial One-Stop revamp

ESRI will redesign the Geospatial One Stop portal that it created under a new five-year, $2.4 million contract. <@SM>

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Lockheed wins FAA sourcing deal

The $1.9 billion contract means Lockheed will take over the aviation agency's automated flight operations.

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Mercy reaches Sumatra

Navy officials plan to use the USNS Mercy and its advanced communications technology in creative ways to support tsunami relief operations, an admiral says.

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GSA gets acquisition exec from SBA

Emily Murphy has been named chief acquisition officer at the General Services Administration.

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DHS privacy office eyes tech

The Homeland Security Department released its first annual privacy report to Congress, outlining work done in numerous areas, including technology.

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Super Bowl security uses E-Sponder

More than 50 agencies guarding the Super Bowl and surrounding events will share info via the Web-based system.

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Cebrowski stresses net-centric war

DOD's newly retired transformation chief warns against the enemies of change and transformation.

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Cray XT3 coming to DOD

Cray is slated to deliver a supercomputer that will become the largest system in the Pentagon's High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

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OMB controller nominee named

President Bush wants Linda Morrison Combs to be controller for the Office of Management and Budget.

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OPM tracks training

The Office of Personnel Management will have performance standards for IT training.

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ESRI wins geospatial work

Interior Department officials have chosen ESRI to update Geodata.gov.

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OMB picks acquisition advisors

Critics say that the panel is too industry-friendly.

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CIOs need to get behind telework, GSA says

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font color> Agency CIOs are partly to blame for only about 100,000 of 750,000 eligible feds teleworking at least one day a week, GSA deputy administrator David Bibb says.<@SM>