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DOD hires modernization boss
The Defense Department named Paul Tibbits director of the Business Modernization and Systems Integration Program Office.
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BMC2 award coming soon
Industry officials expect that Air Force officials will soon issue a request for proposals for the Battle Management Command and Control system.
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GAO rules out feds' A-76 appeals
But the General Accounting Office said regulations should be changed to let federal employees appeal agency decisions to contract their work to businesses.
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EA is the IT tie that binds
As director of the enterprise architecture practice of High Performance Technologies Inc., a systems integration and IT consultancy in Reston, Va., Ira Sachs helps government agencies design blueprints for integrating their systems.
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States feel info blitz
State officials say they still get homeland security alerts from far too many federal sources.
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Air Force chooses radar software architects
Industry teams led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each received $220 million to study Space Based Radar system and software architectures.
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White House to e-gov vendors: Give us your best
Officials presented their visions for common e-gov solutions in the financial management, grants management and human relations business lines
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Ridge, Powell back extensions of biometric passport deadline
The two secretaries urged Congress to give visa-waiver countries more time to build biometric features into their passports.
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Contracts planned for ERA design
Federal officials expect to award two contracts by early fall for the design phase of the Electronic Records Archives.
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DHS needs asset info
A national inventory of critical homeland security assets remains incomplete, but more money or personnel wouldn't speed up the process, an official said.
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Report says federal tech spending will grow slowly
New forecast says federal information technology spending will reach $80.7 billion in fiscal 2009. <@SM>
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IRS proves its mettle in record e-file season
The IRS successfully handled a record volume of electronically filed tax returns and managed to identify problems early and fix them.
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IRS wants culture change
An official says the agency's IT personnel must learn to deal with the public.
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DOD uses tech for logistics
The Defense Department's new operations facility in Kuwait has an information technology unit that uses Web technologies to merge existing supply systems.
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IRS got 59.3M e-filers
An official said everything went smoothly for this latest tax season, except for a server crash.
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UK finds Web accessibility lacking
The United Kingdom's Disability Rights Commission investigated 1,000 public sector Web sites over the last year.
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NASA to merge media archives
Space officials want proposals for a NASA archiving system that would create a one-stop multimedia source for the public.
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Civil servants weigh in against CAPPS II
The American Federation of Government Employees added its voice to the criticism against the passenger screening system.
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