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Bold but not brash

When Labor's Bureau of Economic Analysis gave its Web site a retooling, a chief concern was making sure users still trusted data that has the power to send bulls and bears raging on Wall Street. "Our look was formal, credible, educational and very classic."<br><@SM>—BEA Web manager Carol Kavanagh

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USDA to use project software

Metier's WorkLenz to help Agriculture Department analyze and predict project performance

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OPM hires integrator for governmentwide HR system

The Office of Personnel Management begins its final push to start collecting human resources and payroll data from every agency.<br>

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NIH unveils household product site

The National Institutes of Health has created a database of information on common household products and potential health effects

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Ezenia tool approved for DOD suite

InfoWorkSpace has finished interoperability testing for the Defense Collaborative Tool Suite.

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CSC, Jacobs win $2.7B contract

The companies will provide tech support for the Air Force Materiel Command

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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.