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Intercepts

Smaller Navy, PR-savvy Army, Paint-by-number Ids; 2004: a network odyssey; Gilligan's sincere island

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Defense launches 12 pilots

The military hopes to speed up its net-centric transformation.

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Booze, cigarette tax forms to go online

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau will be implementing electronic forms gradually.

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GSA launches purchase data system

The new Federal Procurement Data System is up and running after just five months of development.

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GSA to link e-procurement pieces

By spring, the General Services Administration will begin to connect some of the pieces of the Integrated Acquisition Environment e-government project.<br>

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Treasury sets up digital tab for alcohol, tobacco dealers

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is setting up a system to accept certain forms with electronic signatures from cigarette and spirits dealers.<br>

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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.