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Air Force forms new IT office

The Air Force created a new organization to develop a servicewide IT architecture and study ways to improve administration networks' management.

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Army aviation program honcho to retire

Maj. Gen. Joseph Bergantz, who oversaw development of the military's first unmanned aerial vehicle, will retire next July.

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Iraq request includes $2 billion for info tech

Proposals for communications systems and research, development, test and evaluation were in Bush's supplemental funding request for Iraq and Afghanistan.

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GAO wants better OPM metrics

The Office of Personnel Management says e-gov will save $2.7 billion, but congressional auditors couldn't determine how the agency came up with those numbers.

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Virginia honors state IT projects

At its annual IT symposium, the Commonwealth honors state, local and private-sector organizations for technology innovation.

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DHS bill skips air cargo screens

The Homeland Security spending bill produced by a House and Senate conference committee provides more overall money than Bush requested.

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PC Mall Gov wins Va. supplier contract

Virginia agencies will buy all their Microsoft products through PC Mall Gov for the next two years.

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US-VISIT questioned by GAO

The Homeland Security Department's plan to track the arrival and departure of every foreigner at the U.S. border has neither the money nor the manpower to make it work, the General Accounting Office said.

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OPM plans E-Learning procurement

The Office of Personnel Management will give agencies more choice when it comes to online learning. The agency by December will award new E-Learning contracts for the services on the <i>www.golearn.gov</i> site. <br>

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Putting a little SWAT in every cop

Center uses simulation technology for realistic tactical training

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Committee wraps up defense spending

The House and Senate conference committee gave the largest increase in fiscal 2004 defense spending to research and development.

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Lasers could reduce friendly fire incidents

Military tests Soldier Integrated Multi-function Laser System

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Deciding who owns the problem

Given the intent of service-level management as a hybrid discipline crossing business and information technology boundaries, where will the decision to purchase SLM tools come from?

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Forest Service purchase cards under fire

GAO study says cites lax oversight contributed to wasteful spending

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DHS names federal worm hunter

Department appoints security czar, creates central response center

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Preventing friendly fire

The Defense Department has been working for years on technologies that can distinguish friendly troops from noncombatants and enemy soldiers to prevent friendly fire incidents.

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Officials want better use of GPRA

Congress should strengthen oversight to ensure the use of program performance information in managing and funding programs, officials said last week.

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Feds' sites boost public service

Gauging whether federal agencies have improved their use of the Web to interact with citizens is not easy, but a user satisfaction survey says they are improving.

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Some services are hard to measure

One vendor tackles task of measuring performance in application development

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Making the case

Business case studies could be your best defense during budget negotiations