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Dot-gov domains to cost $125

Federal agencies and state and local governments renewing .gov domain names or wanting new ones should be prepared to pay $125 a year starting July 31.

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Does every vote count?

Electronic voting emerges as a major topic at this week’s Black Hat Briefings. One view: The American election system is broken.

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Geospatial comments sought

The Interior Department's U.S. Geological Survey is accepting public comments on Version 2 of the Geospatial One-Stop Portal.

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Cyber Eye: E-voting really needs standards

An estimated 32 percent of American voters will cast electronic ballots in November, but their confidence could be undermined by worries about the security and reliability of the tallies.

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US-VISIT boosts 2Q deals

Feds awarded more than $23 billion in IT prime contracts in the second quarter of 2004, Input officials say.

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Feds win Harvard awards

Two federal technology initiatives were among five programs that won awards from Harvard University.

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DHS unions blast HR system deal

A $175 million integration contract for a personnel system 'defies logic and sanity,' says the counsel for a union that represents thousands of DHS workers.

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Deepwater tracker launched

The Coast Guard is using a performance management system from SAS to track progress in the Deepwater modernization program.

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Arizona police buy face ID tech

The state's Department of Public Safety has signed a contract with ImageWare Systems that will allow officials to conduct facial recognition searches on driver license images.

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Feds give low grades to OMB scoring system

Color-coded bubble charts are not the best way to evaluate progress in achieving the President's Management Agenda, several federal information technology executives said today.

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CoreFLS experiment ended

After spending millions of dollars, officials killed a pilot program intended as the first step in replacing the VA's financial management system.

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Who should do your assessment?

Agencies lacking resources may be better off retaining a storage consultant to do the job.

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Agencies keep assistive tech at forefront

New ways to help disabled federal workers do their jobs

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A toll for federal data?

Analysts decry new costs to access outsourced procurement database

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7 steps to a storage assessment

Find a sponsor; get support; scope out high-level needs; assess the as-is state; envision the to-be environment; analyze the gap; generate recommendations.

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DHS looking for communications gaps

DHS officials plan to solicit bids for a nationwide evaluation of public safety wireless communications.

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Eight years later, CIOs search for their place

In the eight years since the creation of the federal CIO position, the role remains in a state of flux.

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Online, Michigan is #1

Michigan claimed the top spot for its use of e-government in a new survey of states released by the Center for Digital Government.

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Pentagon braces for IT spending cuts

For the first time in years, officials foresee significant budget cuts in 2005

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Comings and goings

Jimmy Parker; Casey Coleman; Mike Wash; Jamie Sullivan; Bruce Klein; Valerie Lynn Baldwin; Gen. Hugh Shelton.