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Scorecard is conversation-starter

The President's Management Agenda is a tool to get agencies talking about ways to run programs better

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Whistleblower stifled, and TSP waste

FCW.com's Ask Milt column tackles readers' questions about recourse in a whistleblowing case and against the TSP board

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System holds hazardous data

The Defense Logistics Agency has launched an online repository of material safety data sheets

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Homeland's 1st goal: Be different

The day-one IT goal for the proposed Homeland Security Department is to provide new capabilities

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Student tracking system lagging

The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System may be just "technically operational" by deadline

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Letter to the editor

Bureaucratus off base

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Forman pushes House to meet e-gov fund request

The Bush administration is applying a full-court press to the House to authorize its request for a $45 million e-government fund. Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget’s associate director for IT and e-government, yesterday told lawmakers that the fund was “critical to achieving the promise of e-government.”

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Creation of e-gov office praised

But whether the office's leader should be called a CIO and be confirmed by the Senate remains in dispute

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Guard chief pushes systems upgrade

The Air National Guard director sees great need for modernizing information management systems

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OMB-centric world

At the recent Interagency Resources Management Conference in Hershey, Pa., a reader said that GCN’s coverage of the Office of Management and Budget had intensified noticeably in the past year.<@SM>

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DISA picks 3 for enterprise antivirus

A trio of vendor teams will supply protection in a DOD enterprise antivirus software initiative

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Millennium Challenge IDs systems

Experiment identifies concepts, systems ready for implementation to support joint military forces

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Letter to the editor

Don't start application from scratch

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Secretary Norton is cited for contempt in Indian trust case

A federal judge yesterday found Interior secretary Gale Norton and assistant secretary for Indian affairs Neal McCaleb in contempt of court for failing to fix systems that manage trust fund accounts for American Indians.

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Four agencies achieve interoperable PKI

After five years of work, the General Services Administration’s Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other’s digital certificates through the bridge.

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Cyber strategy: A starting point

The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace released today will become more detailed as comments are returned

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Letter to the editor

No insult to re-apply

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Roster Change

Art Money, former Defense Department chief information officer, has been elected to Rainbow Technologies Inc.'s board of directors

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Next year, tax forms will talk

In the next filing season, about 50 tax forms will talk to disabled users.

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War hero shares IT lessons learned

Combat controller recommends making lighter, more efficient equipment a key focus