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Student aid drops off risk list

But the IRS modernization effort remains a high-risk program, in the eyes of the Government Accountability Office.

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DHS can improve, experts say

The Homeland Security Department should restructure management, experts tell a Senate committee.

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Bush wants easier firing

OMB unveils troika of management agenda proposals.

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Balutis to join Input

The former fed has joined the market research firm as president and CEO.

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Collins: More money for high-risk targets

The senator from Maine introduced a bill to direct more federal homeland security dollars to states and cities at higher risk for a terrorist attack.

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Davis tries license bill again

Rep. Tom Davis reintroduced a proposal to require federal standards for ID verification on driver's licenses.

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CACI hires Kellogg for R&D

The company also reported quarterly results.

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GAO highlights Pentagon shortcomings

The Defense Department accounts for eight of 30 programs cited by Congressional auditors as susceptible to waste, fraud and mismanagement.

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Sharing leads GAO risk list

Cross-government information sharing for homeland security tops the list of four new federal efforts at high risk of failure, GAO says.

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Loy replacement picked

President Bush plans to nominate Michael Jackson, former deputy secretary for transportation, as DHS second-in-command.

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Air Force to set data warehouse policy

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper will issue a policy with guidelines and a deadline to start distributing information into the service's data warehouse.

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CMS to track Medicare drug benefit costs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to build an efficient framework to track seniors’ out-of-pocket expenses under Medicare’s new drug benefit. <@SM>

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FTS gets acting commish

Barbara Shelton will take over the Federal Technology Service when Sandra Bates retires.

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Case of the defunct file system

FBI expected to halt work as problems with system persist

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The Davis Plan

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) has become one of the most influential people in the information technology community.

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IRS works to finesse $80 million cut

Officials learn to cope with bad news

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Hutchinson to leave DHS

News reports say the undersecretary of DHS' Border and Transportation Security Directorate will apparently resign March 1.

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Welles: Helping is a way of life

Feds are predisposed to donate their time and money to worthy causes

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IRS requests priority help

Tax agency officials ask auditors to rank the urgency of identified problems.

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Bates' retirement sparks GSA rumors

As Federal Technology Service Commissioner Sandra Bates prepares to retire, talk is growing about the possibility that FTS and the Federal Supply Service (FSS) could be merged to eliminate redundancies.