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Army readies 3-D design program

The service wants to design weapons in a three-dimensional computer environment.

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EPA taps vendor for E-gov portal

Lockheed Martin won the $98 million contract to work on E-Rulemaking.

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FirstGov adds a Spanish language portal

FirstGov en Español, the government’s first and only Spanish-language information Web portal, launches next week.

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Funding tight for US-VISIT

But DHS officials expect more money for the entry/exit system in 2005.

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Food imports require electronic notice

Beginning Dec. 12, companies importing food into the United States will have to electronically notify the Food and Drug Administration beforehand.

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Interior site gets new look

The revamped home page has quick links to Interior's bureaus and major initiatives.

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Starting date set for federal grant site

Federal agencies must post synopses of grant announcements on the Grants.gov portal starting Nov. 7.

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Diaz tabbed as CIO for research unit

The Homeland Security Department has named Deborah Diaz as the new chief information officer for its research arm, the Science and Technology Directorate.

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Army seeks $98.5 billion 2005 budget

The service wants $22 billion for its Future Combat System.

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Customs IT chief to retire

Woody Hall will step down in November and Charles Armstrong will become U.S. Customs and Border Protection's acting assistant commissioner for information and technology.

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Froelich to lead IRS unit

And the Treasury Department appointed Jesus Delgado-Jenkins to be Froelich's boss.

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DHS buys Anteon card readers

They'll be used for the US-VISIT immigration system.

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Sole source: FedBizOpps portal sets standard for integrated government

What began life as a small electronic-procurement pilot at NASA has grown into an e-government giant.

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Commodity info arrives online

The Agriculture Department launched an online resource for one-stop information about beef, pork and other commodities.

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Parkes leaving FEMA for Energy

Rose Parkes goes from one CIO job to another.

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USDA names finance center leaders

Cyrus Lohfink will be director of the National Finance Center and Gilbert Hawk head of the Information Resources Management Division.

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DHS to talk about antimissile tech

The Homeland Security Department will hold a briefing day Oct. 15 to tell vendors what technologies are needed for antimissile devices on commercial aircraft.

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Army brass tweak portal

AKO not user-friendly, officials say

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EPA adds architecture clause to contracts

The Environmental Protection Agency has started requiring contractors to buy into the agency's enterprise architecture

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Measuring the impact of IT management reforms

Federal Computer Week surveyed by e-mail a random sample of 449 FCW subscribers to measure how much the Bush administration's information technology reforms have affected the way federal IT managers develop and manage projects and programs