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Election group ponders absentees

A federal commission created to study voting issues is considering best practices for absentee voters overseas.

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Harvey: CIO to Army Secretary

Francis Harvey was formally nominated as secretary of the Army and withdrawn as nominee for DOD chief information officer.

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Public storms NOAA site

Eight days in September generated 200 million hits ? equal to one-third of NOAA's online traffic for all of 2003.

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Webcontent.gov coming soon

The site will explain requirements for federal Web sites.

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Labor uses Web for project reports

Project managers and others there have been using xpdoffice to record daily activities and tasks.

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AAI gets $160M contract

The Defense Department will pay the company for operation and maintenance of biological detection systems.

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Army buys NetPro software

The Army Medical Information Technology Center bought 65,000 seats of NetPro's ChangeAuditor and Directory Lockdown.

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Conn. puts off IT merger

The governor says she wants to appoint a new commissioner for IT before moving forward with the plan.

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OPM workers win sourced work

The five-year contract relates to technical advice and support in an IT environment at a Macon, Ga., center.

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EDS joins Lockheed ERA team

EDS will lead deployment centers and records management for Lockheed's program in the Electronic Records Archives competition.

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DHS issues $80M in grants

About $49 million goes for port security, $21 million for highways, and $9.9 million for bus security.

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Bill would magnify cybersecurity in DHS

A companion piece of legislation aims to enhance science and technology.

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Harris wins Space Command deal

The Air Force will pay the company $53 million for IT support of the 50th Space Wing.

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Army plans purchases

The service is preparing at least four major procurements for the coming months.

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Md. court denies e-voting appeal

A judge rejects e-voting opponents' request to require certain security measures for touch-screen voting.

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Northrop competes for DOT protection

The company was added to the list of vendors under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with the Transportation Department.

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Attracting midcareer workers to be feds

Feds will struggle to replace senior-level employees as they leave, says a new report.

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In or out of house

The government should develop its own business cases for IT investments.

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OMB to open service centers

Cross-agency service centers handling IT infrastructure for three lines of business could become operational in fiscal 2006.

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OMB's Evans raises project reporting bar

Earned value management analysis could become the next mantra of chief information officer.