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No one said it would be easy
One of the toughest challenges with the many collaboration projects is getting senior managers to throw their weight behind the interagency initiatives
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Rethinking Medicare
Bureaucratus column: The Medicare population is vastly different from the federal employee workforce
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When location counts
Users of geospatial data push industry for better system interoperability
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Time for a name change?
The Open GIS Consortium's target has become the need to access all kinds of geospatial data produced from various applications
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Saving the future now
Commentary: This is the first of two columns about NARA's new electronic records project
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Intercepts
Clouds or Silver Lining?; But Does It Get HBO?; Sitting on the Sidelines; A Horse is a Horse, Of Course; Hail and Farewell
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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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