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Burns tackling BIA troubles
Brian Burns has been named chief information officer at the troubled Bureau of Indian Affairs
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WorldCom woes limit DREN action
Company's bankruptcy filing means that DOD cannot immediately terminate the contract for a high-speed research network
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FirstGov among 50 most useful
Yahoo Internet Life magazine includes the government Web portal among the '50 Most Incredibly Useful Web Sites'
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Global NMCI nerve center picked
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet's global network operations center will be at the existing location in Norfolk, Va.
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Holcomb detailed to Homeland
NASA CIO Lee Holcomb is on detail as the director of infostructure at the Office of Homeland Security
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Feds deserve equal pay
Bureaucratus column: Don't treat federal employees like second-class citizens
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Time to be flexible
Chief of Staff Andrew Card told government executives that there would be changes in jobs and job descriptions
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OMB details first level of federal enterprise architecture
The Office of Management and Budget today released a fresh version of its e-government business reference model, the first component in OMB’s stated goal of a complete federal enterprise architecture. Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget’s associate director for IT and e-government, called it “a quantum leap for the federal government.”
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Homeland strategy sets IT agenda
The National Strategy for Homeland Security shows how heavily the Bush administration is counting on technology
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Cyberterrorism drill set
Operation Dark Screen to help government, industry prepare for attacks
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Working together
A core group of about 12 people has been working on the Dark Screen exercise for the past year
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GSA reorganizes, disperses FirstGov office
The Office of FirstGov grew up, became successful and is no more. The General Services Administration on June 30 reorganized FirstGov, the Information Technology Office and the Intergovernmental Solutions Office into the new Office of Citizen Services and Communications.<@SM>
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Strategy sets off privacy alerts
Some worry that data collection and automated analysis will enable the government to intrude into private lives
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Fixing a communications breakdown
Homeland security puts focus on interoperability of public safety systems
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Treasury shrinks IT staff
The department is cutting about 40 percent of the IT jobs on its staff and is realigning the workforce
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EDS changes NMCI leadership
NMCI program executive Rick Rosenburg is promoted and will be succeeded by Bill Richard
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