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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

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Intercepts

Harvey a hard charger; Investigating NMCI; Autodin on, ceremony off; Air Force base at Microsoft

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Congress weighs reorg authority

Volcker tells Congress that White House needs authority to restructure government

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Training technology evolving

Training-based technology could evolve into something you might see now on a futuristic TV show, according to Greg Otte, president of IES Interactive Training.

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OMB releases performance reference for IT

The Performance Reference Model tells agencies how to ensure their information systems help the performance of their missions.

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E-gov sites score high on user satisfaction survey

A quarterly survey of 22 federal e-government sites has rated their customer satisfaction higher than for some offline government functions.

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Center to merge watch lists

FBI, DHS collaborate on suspect database

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Creative funding

CIO group drafts report detailing unique approaches to securing funds

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DISA net contracts kept in the shadows

Vendors are busy jostling for position on the Defense Department's $886 million Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program.

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E-gov leadership program to expand

National Defense University fine-tunes certification program after freshman year

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Isabel stresses government tech

NOAA Web site hit by record daily traffic levels in week leading up to hurricane