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Putnam asks GSA to clarify progress on SmartBuy
Rep. Adam Putnam is questioning the General Services Administration about why it is taking so long to get the SmartBuy enterprisewide software license buying initiative under way. <br>
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US-VISIT milestones may shift
Homeland Security officials say they'll meet their first deadline, but future goals and deadlines could change.
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HSARPA requests bio research solicitations
The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency wants ways to detect biological and chemical attacks by monitoring malls, stadiums and other areas.
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GAO calls for FBI enterprise architecture
Without a blueprint for technology operations and investments, the agency risks creating duplicative and costly systems, GAO officials said.
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Food Stamp Program is nearly all paperless
Almost all food stamp benefits are now issued electronically, completing a 20-year transition from paper coupons.<br>
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Congress passes DHS spending
Appropriations bill details $29.4 billion for border protection, emergency responders, transportation security and antiterrorism technologies.
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No new HQ for you, DHS
Congress denied Bush's request for a new Homeland Security headquarters and approved less than the White House wanted for the department's CIO office.
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Grants awarded for bomb detection
The Transportation Security Administration announced five cooperative agreements to develop systems for airports.
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Defense bill cuts IT funds by $200 million
The 2004 Defense Appropriations Act would cut IT funds less than the House originally wanted.
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Indians win full accounting
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the federal government to complete a full accounting of all assets in the Indian Trust fund since 1887.
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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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