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Revising expectations
Commentary: Legislators would be willing to put aside self-interest for the good of the country, but only if the timing is right
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NMCI service under scrutiny
The Navy has turned up the heat on EDS, monitoring the service users are receiving through the Navy Marine Corps Intranet
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E-travel to arrive in December
The first phase of an online travel system for federal employees will be ready by year's end, according to GSA
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FAA pay raise issue lingers
Computer specialists at the FAA continue to fight for the governmentwide information technology pay raise
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The rise of the CIO
Editorial: CIOs struggle to earn clout with agencies' senior management circles and help use IT to support business process change
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Bush defends workforce flexibilities
President Bush defends plan to give the Homeland Security Department hiring and pay flexibilities
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Disaster portal delayed
Slow response by 15 agencies to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s requests for content for the disasterhelp.gov portal has delayed the rollout of the service for disaster victims and responders.
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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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