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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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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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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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