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Eagle awards announced

Mark Forman, OMB associate director of information technology and e-government, and Linda Gooden, president of Lockheed Martin Information Technology, won Eagle awards

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Homeland threat system released

Ridge: Plan provides 'common vocabulary'

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Vendors team up for airport security offering

Four vendors have teamed to offer a suite of applications to help secure the nation's airports

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Lawmaker slams INS management, IT

Congressman pushes legislation and blasts agency's computer systems, management

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Army MPs go biometric

Army military police officers have successfully tested mobile facial-recognition technology to aid them in their duties

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Purchase cards revoked at Spawar

DOD 'serious' about ending card misuse

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Intercepts

DOD's financial mess fund; Bad day out of the office; DOD's business improvements

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Davis: Feds pin 508 rules on vendors

Rep. Tom Davis says agency procurement officials have devised ploys to shift Section 508 compliance responsibility to product vendors

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Privacy, security sides clash

Will more data and better technology achieve greater security? Experts sound off at security vs. privacy forum

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Locals may lack IT for plan

State and local officials expressed concern that local agencies may not have the technology to make the homeland security alert system useful

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Outsourcing anarchy

A Legal View: Changing the law to allow federal employees to challenge outsourcing decisions would inevitably lead to chaos

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DOD reviews systems access

Draft policy could curb hires of foreign IT workers

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DOD funding aids first responders

DOD is funding development of a system to improve communications among public safety agencies and DOD personnel

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Call to service

For Priscilla Guthrie, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were all the motivation she needed

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Air Force woos workers

The Air Force Materiel Command has launched some initiatives to improve its recruitment and retention efforts

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Special Ops awards network support

BTG wins contract that covers the Special Operations Command's communications network infrastructure

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GSA offers telework incentive

GSA is offering federal employees the chance to try telecommuting for free

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Army secures wireless LAN

The Army has selected a security solution to protect a wireless local-area network with about 85,000 users

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Lawmakers challenge Army goals

Senators challenge the risks involved in the Army's aggressive timetable for its transformation

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OPM will fund at least one e-gov plan on its own

The Office of Personnel Management is making an aggressive effort to find money for its five e-government initiatives approved by the Office of Management and Budget. In weekly meetings with Mark Forman, OMB’s associate director for IT and e-government, OPM is refining the goals set in the individual business cases submitted in December.