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OMB prepares to align financial systems

By month’s end, the Office of Management and Budget will release for comment a document that describes an enterprise architecture framework aimed to align agencies’ programs with their administrative systems. <br>

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CIO leaving space agency

Less than a year into the job, NASA acting CIO Paul Strassmann has decided to leave, sources say

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Top Homeland hires considered

New York's counterterrorism chief and Coca-Cola's top cybersecurity watchdog are candidates

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DOD leaders emphasize space

Space-based assets will only increase in importance as the military continues network-centric transformation

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Lieberman blasts outsourcing quotas

Senator says setting arbitrary quotas for outsourcing federal jobs is wrong

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OMB director bolsters wary feds

Daniels explains the President's Management Agenda call to 'competitively source' more operations

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OMB, DHS working on privacy

Concerns arise as new information systems and sharing mechanisms are developed

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Border tech advances highlighted

Hutchinson describes advancement of the key systems to track visitors and cargo crossing U.S. borders

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Homeland, governors linking up

Department is connecting 26 governors' offices for secure videoconferencing in case of terrorist attack

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Army gets a look at FCS' 'eyes'

Vendors demonstrate Jigsaw project, which could be 'eyes' of Future Combat Systems

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Commerce picks Dialog for news site

Dialog will host World News Connection, which offers information compiled from foreign news organizations

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New Mexico gets ready for HIPAA compliance

As states scramble to meet the April 14 deadline for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s privacy rules, New Mexico is smoothing its way to compliance by focusing on data integration.<br>

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Roster Change

Government IT personnel moves

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CIA veteran named threat center chief

CIA deputy John Brennan is named director of the new Terrorist Threat Integration Center

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Air Force CIO outlines priorities

John Gilligan identified his top five priorities in Air Force transformation

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Energy projects have corporate flavor

DOE progressing on IT initiatives that reflect a more corporate approach to management

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SSA speeds e-disability system

Agency plans to put its electronic disability system into production four years early

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INS inspectors lack tools, training

Inspectors do not have adequate equipment and are not properly trained on the computer systems, IG report says

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NIH monitoring Internet use

Agency deploys software to track and manage Internet use for more than 41,000 employees

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Navy forms first XML council

The XML Business Standards Council is the first of four groups to provide XML policy guidance