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Financial systems still troubled

DOD leads agencies with pervasive financial management problems, GAO finds in fiscal 2001 report

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Air Force pinged on Web data

DOD inspector general's report found inappropriate information on many of service's sites

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The Circuit

GovNet Waiting Game

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Electronic death records 'vital' at SSA

The federal government wants a searchable electronic database of every death in the United States

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Virtual IT job fair scheduled

The federal CIO Council has chosen April 22-26 for its nationwide ?virtual? information technology job fair

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Army makeover under scrutiny

The Army's aggressive timetable for transforming and fielding of the Objective Force has lawmakers from both parties, as well as Defense Department leaders, unsure whether the service will be able to meet its ambitious goals

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Army closes in on transformation

The Army has begun a limited pilot project in the Washington, D.C., area to test key concepts of a top-level initiative

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VA maps out plan

Online tool simplifies route to benefits

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Numbers Game

The Defense Department is requesting $26.4 billion for information technology and national security systems for fiscal 2003

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DOD grapples with tangled financial web

The tangled web of Defense Department financial systems has grown even more complex now that DOD officials have found another 200 financial management systems above and beyond the 673 they already knew existed, Pentagon officials said recently.

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Adobe to retool PDF forms

Changes envisioned for Reader software would support online transactions

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Intercepts

The Defense Department is moving to curb its problems with government-issued credit cards

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DOD details IT wish list

Fiscal 2003 budget request up 12 percent

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Purchase card pandemonium

Purchase card pandemonium

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Taking a step back

Federal Computer Week debuted March 23, 1987, with a report on the Reagan administration's decision to withdraw a controversial plan that would have restricted access to 'public computer databases'

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DOD makes history more accessible

DOD awards contract for declassifying, digitizing documents

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Homeland security focuses coordination

Although sharing information among the courts, the police and other justice agencies at every level of government has been a goal of dedicated individuals and organizations for the past several years, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have given the issue a renewed national scope, several government officials said last week

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Faulty Florida system sent benefits to inmates, the deceased

Florida’s Agency for Workforce Innovation, which operates the state’s Unemployment Compensation System, sent benefit checks to prison inmates and dead people because of poor system controls, state auditors said.

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OMB sets e-gov architecture baseline

The Office of Management and Budget is creating a template for the leaders of its 24 highlighted e-government initiatives to follow.

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In E-Town, government doors are always open

Rising above the other booths at FOSE 2002 last month was the Mayberryesque clock tower of E-Town, billed as the town hall of the future, where citizens will transact business and find answers to their questions.