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DHS HR team sets fall target

Senior review committee developing personnel guidelines consider pay-banding, other options

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Navy Secretary nominee dies

McMillan had been named to replace Gordon England, who left to join Homeland Security Department

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Passport call center expands services

The State Department has stretched a contract with AT&T Government Solutions to manage its National Passport Information Center for another five years.<br>

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Flaw in e-voting software?

Johns Hopkins researchers say e-voting code could allow multiple votes

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House Appropriations slashes E-Gov Fund

The House Appropriations Committee yesterday cut the administration’s E-Government Fund by 80 percent from what Congress had allocated for fiscal 2003.<br>

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Senate pops Homeland funding

Senate's $29.3 billion appropriations bill adds new money for high-tech systems

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DISA awards security services pact

Eleven vendors share $1.5 billion I-Assure II prize

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CSC gets e-learning deal

Computer Sciences Corp. wins a deal to develop e-learning programs for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

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Army CIO pushes outsourcing

The chief information officer for the Army Corps of Engineers gets a chance to prove that tech outsourcing works.

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SI gets Army contract

The network and computer services firm will take over human resources systems for several offices.

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Contract database to start

GSA publishes a new rule requiring agencies to submit info on government-wide contracts

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Congress pushed on Web accessibility

Congressional Web sites could be made more accessible to people with disabilities, advocates say

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Emergency teams get new tech

The Department of Health and Human Services will equip emergency vehicles with new communications devices.

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Competition goals removed

The Bush administration has backed off government-wide benchmarks for opening up certain federal tasks to competition, and replaced them with agency-specific targets.

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CDC: Smallpox systems incomplete

The director of the Centers for Disease Control says that the smallpox vaccination program needs more work.

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Bush gets D on security

A liberal group criticized the administration's work on homeland security

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FBI tech upgrades roll on

The federal law enforcement agency is installing more modern computers and expects newer software soon.

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House cuts irk administration

The House Appropriations Committee cuts White House requests for Commerce e-government and Justice restructuring.

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Ex-federal official joins Sygate board

The man who was once second-in-command of a board charged with protecting national infrastructure is now a director for an IT security firm.

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Defense to test privacy training tool

Beta testing will soon start for a CD-ROM to teach spies and intelligence analysts about privacy laws.