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House passed e-gov bill; Senate prepared to take it up

Congress is one step away from creating an Office of E-Government in the Office of Management and Budget and providing unprecedented funds to move e-government forward across agencies. <br>

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Packet Rat: The Rat emotes about e-votes

The Rat usually votes by absentee ballot. It causes less uproar than a six-foot anthropomorphic rodent trying to enter the polls.

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IRS awards online training pact

Initiative will help train 100,000 IRS workers online about the ever-changing tax code

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Immigration status a click away

Case Status Online offers a more convenient way for applicants to check the status of their cases

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PACAF set to award PC deal

The Pacific Air Forces soon will award a command-wide PC replacement contract

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Lessons learned at home helped with new system

When Martin Smith, director of the International Trade Commission’s Office of Information Services, faced the task of overhauling the agency’s electronic docket system, he recalled his experience in building his home in McLean, Va., in the 1990s.

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e-Authentication prototype awaits e-gov projects

The federal government has an operational prototype of the e-Authentication gateway, one of the Office of Management and Budget’s 25 Quicksilver e-government projects, that is managing access to two applications. <br><@SM>

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Model to guide homeland investments

Architecture model will outline connections between technologies and guide investments

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Air Force planning enterprise C4ISR review

The Air Force will begin regular reviews of enterprise capabilities, starting next month

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Air Force rolling out XML e-forms

The Air Force is converting 18,000 e-forms that are used by more than 700,000 personnel

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House OKs homeland bill

The homeland security bill relies heavily on technology to safeguard the nation

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Air Force piloting SIPRNET portal

Portal is being tested as a way to eliminate 'disconnect between the force and the unit level'

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Homeland dept. poised for launch

Many pieces of the new department would be ready to go within a month, Cooper says

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More sites targeted for shutdown

After eliminating PubScience, commercial publishers aim at other government-funded services

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DOE lab calls on big Bro for protection

Networking at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is all about bandwidth, because visualization, simulation and other high-end applications eat up bandwidth voraciously.

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Air Force preps architecture training

The Air Force is preparing a training strategy to produce and track enterprise architects

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Air Force developing online guide

Guide will categorize products and standards in the Air Force enterprise architecture

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Virtual IT job fair on hold

Budget impasse has put plans for a second online job fair, hiring campaigns on hold

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Feds have edge in some IT skills

Federal IT workers outscore private-sector counterparts in certain technologies

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Treasury losing IT decision-makers

Forman: 'Whole chunks of the decision-making operatives are leaving government'