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Army wants FCS tech now
Soldiers should get Future Combat Systems capabilities as soon as possible instead of waiting for the formal FCS deadline of 2010, a general said.
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National Security Agency names CIO
La Forrest Williams, a retired Air Force colonel, replaced Richard Turner.
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AT&T to manage Navy construction assets
The Navy awarded a pair of contracts worth $13.3 million combined.
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GAO updates IT management guide
The IT Investment Management framework models five stages of investment management maturity.
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Bill would fund U.S.-Israel R&D
Bipartisan House legislation would create a fund for homeland security research by American and Israeli companies.
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Clearing up the PART
OMB will have guidance clarifying use of the Program Assessment Rating Tool.
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Customs delays air manifest requirement
Officials announced a five-month delay for requiring air manifests to be sent to border officials before cargo arrives.
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Web tracking of tax refunds grows
The number of taxpayers using the IRS Web site to track the status of their tax refunds has almost doubled annually.
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OMB hopes to improve investment oversight
Officials want to incorporate better IT investment management into agency practices, said Karen Evans, OMB's administrator for e-government and IT.
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OMB: Agencies improve IT security, but many are short of goals
Agency IT security has shown marked improvement over the last three years, but too many departments still fall short of Federal Information Security Management Act goals, OMB reported today.
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Pushing for cybersecurity, e-gov
Sen. Susan Collins was born into a political family. Her mother and father each served at separate times as the mayor of Caribou, Maine. So it came as no surprise when her first job out of college in 1975 was working on the Washington staff of Maine Sen. William Cohen, an author of the Clinger-Cohen Act. After 12 years of working for the Republican lawmaker, Collins served as a cabinet secretary for Gov. John McKernan for five years and as head of the New England regional office of the Small Business Administration for a year.
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Tax filers jumping on the e-train
Electronic filing of tax returns is running 9 percent ahead of last year, with more than 33.5 million returns e-filed through Feb. 27, the IRS said today. <@SM>
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USDA supports conservation planning software
The Agriculture Department has partnered with Deere & Co., of Moline, Ill., to provide agriculture management software.
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Gimme Shelter
Personnel at 1,400 military recruiting centers sometimes live far from the nearest Army, Navy or Air Force base. “It lets our recruiters be a part of the community where they are working,” said John Curry, leased housing program manager for the Navy Recruiting Command. But living off-base can make housing difficult to find.
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Army winter conference begins
The annual gathering could highlight several Army IT and communications initiatives.
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More planned for Oregon wireless system
The public/private partnership building an eastern Oregon broadband wireless network may begin voice-over-IP service this summer.
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Air Force buys secure data units
Northrop Grumman will provide the aircraft devices for $73 million.
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Borland joins Telos board
The former deputy CIO of the Army will be a director for Telos, an info security firm.
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Army awards contract for IED jammer
EDO will get almost $7 million to build electronic countermeasure devices to jam signals used to detonate roadside bombs.
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