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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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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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