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State creates E-Diplomacy Office to coordinate user needs with IT
Pinstripe-wearing diplomats will work side-by-side with khaki-clad techies in the State Department’s E-Diplomacy Office.
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OMB prepares a guide for agencies’ Web content and design
Federal Web sites could soon have a similar look. The Office of Management and Budget is writing its recommendations for standards for site content management.
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USDA speeds toward e-filing
More by congressional prodding than by choice, the Agriculture Department finds itself among the front-runners of agencies working to meet the requirements of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act.
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DOD launches comm office
Transformational Communications Office will create an integrated communications network
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Model programs
With passage of the Clinger-Cohen Act in 1996, agencies were faced with the need to better manage their enterprise architectures—the act mandated an overall blueprint for their IT systems.
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Army issues FCS requirements
Operational requirements document for Future Combat System shifts focus from concepts to solutions
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Most e-gov initiatives are ready to take off
Mark Forman and his colleagues at the Office of Management and Budget expect to be busy over the next four months with the launch of up to 21 first or second iterations of the 24 Quicksilver e-government initiatives.
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Army facing acquisition workforce crisis
Service developing a plan to address the crisis, Army official says
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TSA piloting biometric lockers
The agency is testing a computerized system to secure public lockers at the Twin Cities' airport
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OMB releases Part 2 of federal architecture model
The Office of Management and Budget will release the second section of the federal enterprise architectural model in the next two months. Bob Haycock, OMB’s chief architect, said the performance reference model will include outcomes and metrics agencies will use to measure performance against business practices.
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Army studies IT for budget briefing
The Army is wrapping studies on IT-heavy programs as it prepares to report on its future funding needs
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Homeland bill veto threatened
White House threatens to veto Senate homeland security bill unless management flexibilities are restored
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Olson stirs IRMCO attendees
Solicitor General Ted Olson, whose wife perished Sept. 11, addresses fellow public servants
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IRS: Tax forms will talk
A new design tool for fillable forms will make the IRS’ 50 top online tax schedules usable by visually impaired persons in the next tax season. Adobe Systems Inc. today announced that the IRS has been testing Adobe PDF Forms Access Agent, a $99 developer tool, to provide audible instructions for filling out each field of a form. The IRS keeps several hundred forms and publications online in Adobe’s Portable Document Format.
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DOD joint concepts in question
GAO says lack of key management tools at Joint Forces Command makes its impact on transformation unclear
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U.S. Marshals and VA finish testing automated travel systems
The Marshals Service and the Veterans Affairs Department are moving ahead with their own automated travel systems despite little word from the Office of Management and Budget or the General Services Administration about which e-travel system will be used for the governmentwide e-Travel initiative.
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Roster Change
Robert Frye, executive director of the Standard Systems Group (SSG), is retiring effective Sept. 3
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