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DOD removes restrictions on IT buys
A controversial provision that would restrict DOD time- and labor-hour service buys did not make it into a final rule
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Money stalls homeland efforts
Until the bill to create the department goes through, the office can only gather information
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Customs plays homeland role
Modernization project may become platform for proposed Homeland Security Department
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Homeland security wish list set
Officials have quietly drawn up a list of their top priorities to jump-start the homeland department
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Hill wants to know how the budget impasse will affect OMB’s e-government projects
With agency finances in limbo until Congress passes a 2003 budget, lawmakers are gathering information on how a long-term continuing resolution will affect agency e-government projects and other initiatives under the President’s Management Agenda.
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Trademark seekers shift away from paper, PTO says
The Patent and Trademark Office announced today that it began receiving more trademark applications online than on paper in September. PTO has been working in-house on its first online application filing system since 1992, trademark commissioner Anne Chasser said. “It has taken us 10 years to become an overnight success,” she said. <br>
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Missile defense contracts awarded
The Missile Defense Agency recently awarded two IT-heavy contracts
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Open source courses through DOD
Study answers question: What would happen if open source software were banned at DOD?
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Personal data travels far
GAO report shows the range personal information can travel once it is submitted to a federal agency
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Avaya assembling Air Force networks
Work has begun on networks for two South Carolina Air Force bases
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Report sets e-gov measuring stick
OMB says new baseline report creates an important mark for measuring e-gov progress
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Transformation driving DOD IT
GEIA forecasts that the Defense IT budget will grow steadily at 5 percent for the next decade
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'Sensitive' label strikes nerve
Scientific leaders decry the labeling and withholding of "sensitive but unclassified" information
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OMB releases small biz strategy
Strategy is intended to increase opportunities for small businesses in the federal market
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DOD official outlines IT challenges
Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz describes priorities and personnel in the Information Age
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There’s more than one way to post your message
Speakers at yesterday’s FedWeb fall conference offered a number of tips for delivering online content to audiences who speak little or no English.<br>
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Going Paperless
Military veterans who apply for home loan benefits are answering the doorbell to appraisers toting handheld wireless devices instead of clipboards.
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