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Lawmakers to watch A-76 closely
Lawmakers are leery about the Bush administration's proposal to compete 15 percent of the federal jobs considered commercially viable by the end of fiscal 2003
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DOD eyes bandwidth growth
Pete Aldridge says department's vision includes 'unlimited bandwidth with global access'
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Local connectivity
Officials in Arlington County, Va. -- home to the Pentagon, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and 10 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority subway stops -- are working to achieve regional interoperability
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House assails INS systems
Lawmakers: Approval of Sept. 11 terrorists' visas shows agency is 'worse than useless'
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FBI record handling under fire
The FBI's computer systems are 'antiquated,' but it was poor performance by personnel that led to the FBI's failure to disclose more than 1,000 documents to lawyers defending Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Justice Department has concluded
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Tools of the trade
Examples of the kinds of tools the Pacific Disaster Center developed to help emergency managers
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Biological pathogens: Know your enemy
A company's planned Public Health Alert and Response System will be able to detect a pathogen and predict its spread
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FEMA.gov rises to the occasion
While many federal employees were evacuating their offices in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Web team kept working. Within an hour of the terrorist attacks, the agency posted information on its site and updated it around the clock
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Latest info scrub worries public interest advocates
The Bush administration has ordered tighter controls on government information that could help terrorists
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The Circuit
Some top technology folks acknowledge that achieving a paperless government will be easier to reach 'in spirit' than in reality
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NMCI passes first tests
Tests of NMCI revealed some initial start-up problems, but they did not raise any significant operational concerns
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Interior contempt motion filed
American Indians maintain e-mail evidence destroyed in case over Interior's mismanagement of trust money
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DOD financial web grows
Department 'discovers' 200 more financial management systems, making auditable books harder to achieve.
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OMB, CIOs support a central e-gov fund
The congressional appropriations process is holding back the administration’s 24 e-government projects, Mark Forman and David McClure yesterday told members of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy.
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Homeland security group formed
Public-private sector council will advise the administration on securing the country against terrorist attacks
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NASA speeds up financial system
Decision acknowledges past problems with deploying an integrated financial management system
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Army tests base security app
Military police at Fort McPherson will use radio frequency identification technology to screen vehicles and people
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GAO: Agencies struggle with IT architectures
Most agencies have no enterprise architecture plan or are just starting to develop one.
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