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Justice puts limits on TIPS
Operation TIPS will go on, but without help from workers whose jobs give them access to people's homes
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Congress is at odds over e-gov funding request
President Bush’s fiscal 2003 request for a $45 million e-government fund will head to conference when Congress is back in session next month.
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Army awards WIN-T pact
The Army awarded a pair of contracts that will let two vendor teams battle it out for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program
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FBI continues tech exec shift
The latest shuffle produced a new director for investigative technologies and a chief for the Cyber Crime Section
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Virtual Pentagon notice filed
A $400 million notice to bidders has been issued for the Command Communications Survivability Program
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Agencies speculate on consolidating online travel apps
Will agencies' electronic-travel initiatives be left waiting at the gate?<@SM>
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OMB team lays out its e-gov agenda
The Office of Management and Budget’s e-government team met recently at the Washington offices of GCN and Washington Technology to discuss the administration’s e-gov progress.
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OMB pushes agencies to share funds
The Office of Management and Budget is asking agency CIOs to give up control of their most valuable resource: money.
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Vendor data gets user-friendly
When contracting officers or members of a source selection committee need to find out about a potential vendor’s quality of work on previous contracts, collecting the data often is a challenge. But the process is about to change. Three agencies are working with the General Services Administration and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to create a central past-performance records database for use governmentwide. NIH’s Diane Frasier says more than 100 agencies are expected to use a new system providing access to past-performance information.<@SM>
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Homeland IT team filling up
Transition Planning Office team will determine how IT can best serve the proposed Homeland Security Department
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NMCI reaches key milestone
The 20,000-seat mark signifies the official start of the monitoring of service-level agreements
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Miller joins Homeland transition
FEMA's chief information officer becomes a member of the administration's Transition Planning Office
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Calif. gets funds from its nonfilers
Fourteen million Californians file their state tax returns voluntarily, but the ones who don’t file keep Cathy Cleek and her team busy. Cleek is director of the Franchise Tax Board’s nonfiler program.
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Cyber Corps funding boosted
The supplemental funding bill signed this month included $19.3 million for the Scholarship for Service program
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Middleware anchors INS’ information architecture
The Immigration and Naturalization Service views middleware as the linchpin in its strategy to integrate the nation's border control systems.
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Standards for grant portal drafted
Draft issued of proposed data standards for agencies posting grant opportunities on FedBizOpps.gov
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EPA looks to unify states with CDX
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Information Collection Office, which is managing the rollout and expansion of the agency's Central Data Exchange (CDX) portal, knows the Web is the route to take for the portal’s next step. Now, the agency is looking for the right technology to pave the way.
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TSA issues first IT work orders
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded the first two work orders for its IT infrastructure
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VBA links offices on virtual network
The Veterans Benefits Administration is linking regional offices to improve the customer service offered by its call centers.
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