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It's easier being red

Remaining management agenda fixes could take years

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Air Force studies outsourcing

Officials want vendors to maintain digital imaging devices

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UAVs tested for border protection

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection will try the Hermes 450 along the Mexican border.

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GAO sees need for DHS tech framework

Until that's in place, DHS should cut back IT spending, auditors say.

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Spotila to leave GTSI

The company does not plan to get a new president and chief operating officer.

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Reps. seek biometric delay

Bipartisan legislation would give visa-waiver countries one more year to include biometrics in passports.

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Lockheed wins $19M deal

Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems business division will finish the next version of software used to plan Air Force missions.

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Kentucky hires IT commissioner

Mike Inman will run the Governor's Office for Technology.

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SSA office to craft Web content

The Social Security Administration plans to have an Office of Electronic Communications.

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Govs demand bioterrorism money

The National Governors Association opposes an HHS proposal to reduce bioterrorism preparedness funding.

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Byrd pushes for more procurement people

The West Virginia senator proposed that DOD increase its number of procurement officials by 5 percent in 2005.

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Federal architecture has come a long way, baby

But most agencies still are at only a basic level, officials say.

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Fed telework grows

But not fast enough, according to a report from the Office of Personnel Management.

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Senate bill restricts military use of FTS centers

It would require a clean bill of health from the DOD inspector general before an FTS support center can handle a major Defense purchase.

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Defense, VA lack common data exchange

The two agencies remain far apart when it comes to sharing digital medical records, GAO says.

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E-gov progress is slight on new OMB scorecard

The Office of Management and Budget’s latest scorecard for the President’s Management Agenda, covering January through March, shows that only two agencies improved their e-government scores since the last ratings in December. The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development moved to yellow from red.

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GPO hunts fugitives

The Government Printing Office will send out a Web bot to find so-called fugitive documents.

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GSA’s E-Travel is ready to leave the station

The National Science Foundation has waited nearly three years for an electronic travel system, but patience seems to be paying off.<@SM><@SM>The agency will join seven others as the first adopters of the General Services Administration’s E-Travel initiative. By early summer, NSF plans to award a task order for a reservation and voucher system to one of three E-Travel contractors: Carlson Wagonlit Government Travel Inc. of San Antonio, EDS Corp. or the Mission Systems unit of Northrop Grumman Corp.

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New FedBizOpps contract coming

GSA issued a solicitation for a new vendor to take over the site for information about federal contracts.

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Air Force issues draft solicitation for info management

The service wants an integrated set of IT capabilities for collaboration, document and workflow management.