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Beverage label filing goes online
Label approval certificates for alcoholic beverages can now be filed over the Web
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Army's WIN-T hits milestone
Defense officials approved system development and demonstration for the Army's ambitious system for high-speed communications on the battlefield.
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OMB and GAO disagree over privacy compliance
The Office of Management and Budget and the General Accounting Office are butting heads over the ability of agencies to assure the protection of individual privacy rights in agency systems.<br>
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Veridian investors to vote on sale
A shareholder vote on the systems integrator's sale to General Dynamics is set for Aug. 7
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Navy’s Carey gives policy priority
For the past three years, Rob Carey has managed change in the Navy. For most of that time, Carey, the service’s former e-business and smart-card team leader, spearheaded the Navy’s thrust to transform the way it conducted business electronically, which brought about a heavy reliance on smart-card technology for data authentication.
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Data Swappers
The Bureau of Land Management is setting up Extensible Markup Language data exchanges with oil and natural gas prospectors who drill on federal lands.
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Report: Privacy compliance is uneven
Federal auditors find that government agencies don't put enough emphasis on Privacy Act requirements.
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Md. county portal streamlines customer service
Montgomery County, Md., is more than halfway through consolidating about 40 government Web sites into one official portal. But as it inches closer to completion, the project illustrates how difficult it is to overcome territoriality among some agencies.
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Air Force tabs EFJohnson for radios
EFJohnson will get almost $8 million to supply mobile and portable radios for Air Combat Command.
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Foreign students get ICEy reception
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will work around the clock to make sure foreign students are registered.
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Policies and Practices: Make or break for e-government
If you listen closely, you can hear the drum the Office of Management and Budget is beating for e-government. Over the next 11 months, it will grow louder and stronger.
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To ease asset tracking, DOD will use standard ID tags
Starting tomorrow, all Defense Department program managers must tag new equipment with a standard and universal identification code to track the items they buy.<@SM>
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Defense R&D personnel moves falter
Almost three-quarters of personnel initiatives proposed by Defense Department labs and test centers haven't been adopted
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Defense aims to cut office uniforms
Military officials want to move non-civilian personnel from the back office to the front lines.
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Agencies reach for e-training interoperability and efficiency
An e-learning portal developed by the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service lets employees find and register for training with a few clicks.
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GSA kicks off governmentwide customer service program
GSA today launched the first iteration of the USA Services initiative, which will answer misdirected e-mail, postal mail and telephone calls.<br>
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Military items get universal IDs
Defense Department officials hope to boost DOD's inventory control by giving each physical item a unique identification code.
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Info management may cost $1.3B
The demands of homeland security will force federal agencies to spend more to organize their information, according to a market researcher
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Hey, it’s just business: As e-gov projects evolve, some agencies shift control from CIOs’ offices
As agencies recognize the importance of e-government and the obstacles to its success, some are trying a different approach.
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