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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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Broadening e-gov's reach
Commentary: Digital government has garnered enough buzz that scholars see it as a promising research area
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Web site broadens access
Chesapeake watershed profiles soon will link federal, state and local partners
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Customs: E-filing helps port security
Customs plans to require that every ship heading to the U.S. electronically transmit a list of cargo at least 24 hours before it is loaded at a foreign port
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Survivor entitlement
Bureaucratus column: The husband of A fed challenged how the CIA calculated his survivor annuity
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Army picks two for tech to lighten soldiers' loads
The Army has selected two integrators to compete for the opportunity to create technology for the Objective Force Warrior
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From the ground up
Editorial: Although work with state governments is picking up, coordination among city agencies is problematic
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