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Section 508 revisions considered

Public comments sought on revisions to Section 508, especially pertaining to the obligations of vendors

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Letter to the editor

GSA prices not always the best

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EGAd!

Commentary: What is not clear is the business case for this legislation

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Students grade FirstGov

Commentary: My students gave FirstGov good reviews

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Verity upgrades knowledge engine

Verity is releasing a new version of its high-end information retrieval product, which powers several e-commerce sites and government portals

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E-gov bill progresses

The Senate last week unanimously passed a bill to provide $345 million for e-government initiatives during the next four year

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Teleworking faces familiar roadblocks

Few federal employees are teleworking because their bosses don't support it

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EPA will buttress environment site

The Environmental Protection Agency by October plans to add data about local conditions from all 50 states to its Window to My Environment site.

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Priming the pump

Companies prep slew of homeland security solutions, but wait for feds to get the money to buy them

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Fixing 'the problem'

Bureaucratus column: Why do we need an 'expert' to tell government executives what they should already know?

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DOD officials push real-time intelligence

Real-time intelligence called key to Navy and Marine transformation and conducting the war on terrorism

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Homeland HR plan criticized

Employee unions, Congress question broad workforce flexibilities for new department

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Boeing gets the call for DOD radio

Software-based systems will eliminate incompatibilities among services

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Intercepts

DREN continues; Section 803 Watch; Feedback frenzy

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Tech options abound for INS

Ideas include system so foreign visitors can report their whereabouts

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DOD keeps pace for fast-track financial fix

DOD officials hope to complete a draft of their financial management architecture within three months

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E-gov bill heads to House

The Senate unanimously passed a bill to provide $345 million for e-gov initiatives over the next four years

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Agriculture begins to issue digital certificates

Although a full-scale public-key infrastructure is not yet in place, the Agriculture Department has begun issuing its first 300 digital certificates for conducting online transactions with the department.

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Search engine gives FirstGov edge

The new FirstGov search engine the General Services Administration revved up last month runs smoothly and needs only a few improvements to make FirstGov a best-of-breed Web portal.

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OPM gets early cooperation on clearance system initiative

The Office of Personnel Management team working on the E-Clearance project has been pleasantly surprised at the high-tech cooperation it is getting—so much so that OPM expects the e-government initiative to meet its next milestone early.