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Collaboration takes new forms
Flexibility, speed and coordination define new requirements for data sharing and interagency collaboration
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FBI speeds background checks on gun buyers
The Justice Department is providing gun sellers with nearly instantaneous information about customers in 91 percent of the cases
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IRS picks CIO, top deputy
The IRS has turned once again to its in-house experts to fill key information technology positions
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Air Force forms council for IT buys
Group will develop servicewide strategies for buying and managing IT products
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OMB expert helps Homeland Security tackle A-76
David Childs, an Office of Management and Budget senior procurement policy specialist, is on detail to the Homeland Security Department for three months to help the agency build its infrastructure to compete federal jobs with the private sector. <br>
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Scrutiny required
Editorial: DOD officials are saying everything that privacy advocates want to hear about the newly renamed Terrorism Information Awareness program
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Government interest in Web services grows
Some government and industry executives view Web services as a potential antidote for the data-sharing headaches of homeland security
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OMB puts federal jobs up for grabs
Revised A-76 holds agencies accountable for competing work deemed commercial
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Procurement execs want larger role
As federal procurement reform continues, officials seek to be included earlier in process
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Study finds technical errors in government sites
A survey of 41 federal Web sites found that 68 percent will present some sort of bug within the first 15 minutes of a visit.<br>
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Friendly fire system hailed
Pentagon plans to expand development of Blue Force Tracking technology
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GAO denies Recruitment One-Stop appeal
The General Accounting Office has pushed the Office of Personnel Management closer to recompeting at least part of the Recruitment One-Stop contract—one of the 25 Quicksilver e-government projects. <br>
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Marine accounting open to competition
DOD will begin conducting an A-76 competition of its Marine Corps Accounting Services
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NASA financial program in danger
GAO says the agency is in danger of producing its third consecutive failed financial management system
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Template tool helps agencies make their case, vendor says
OMB Exhibit 300, the capital asset plan and business case document that agencies must present to the Office of Management and Budget to win funding for their projects, has taken on heightened importance this budget season.
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OMB assesses next wave of e-gov projects
The Office of Management and Budget last month hired a contractor to help it evaluate prospective e-government consolidation efforts.
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OMB expects A-76 circular to push management agenda
Senior administration officials today touted the new guidance for agencies to compete federal jobs with the private sector as bold, appropriately decisive and reflective in a careful way.<br>
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