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Gauging IT investments

A new process to evaluate information technology investments using science, statistics and mathematical models is getting so much attention that even the government's statistical experts will take it for a spin early next year

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Managers peg e-gov, culture as top concerns

Improving electronic services, not security, is the No. 1 challenge, according to study

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SAIC lands Spawar contract

SSC San Diego acquires engineering services to support voice and data communications

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Navy finds a more efficient mail call

Lotus Development Corp.'s Domino is helping the Navy streamline electronic communications with the ships of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets

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Ending a moot debate

Editorial: The debate over a national identification card has been unfortunately cast as Big Brother vs. civil liberties

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Pangea focuses on assistive technologies

The Pangea Foundation is developing a suite of middleware technologies to help application developers construct Web pages with assistive capabilities embedded in them

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Unions ready to fight Bush management plan

The Freedom to Manage initiative could be losing some of its momentum

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Latest FAIR lists set up battle lines

The latest list of federal jobs that are potential candidates for outsourcing has drawn stark battle lines between the private sector and government workers

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IT in play at Olympics

A new State Department visa system screens coaches and athletes for terrorist connections

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Forman promotes e-gov resource sharing

Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget’s associate director for IT and e-government, has been holding face-to-face meetings with agency program managers to persuade them to share funds for OMB’s 23 approved e-government initiatives.<@SM><@SM>

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OMB: Pass the hat for e-gov funds

Congressional stinginess and the evaporation of federal surpluses have punctured hopes for windfall funding of e-government projects.

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GovNet ideas don’t come cheaply

Presidential cybersecurity adviser Richard A. Clarke’s October request for information for a secure GovNet intranet has drawn more than 160 vendor responses, including some warnings about the costs of a secure network.<@SM>

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FedBizOpps will be sole source of solicitation info

The federal government will complete the first step in making procurement a one-stop electronic process on Jan. 1, when FedBizOpps.gov becomes the only comprehensive federal online source for listing and finding solicitations.

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Letter to the editor

Overlooking inside talent

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CEO pushes stimulus, security

Symantec chief meets with federal officials to promote IT security and the economic stimulus package

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DLA counting on modernization

CIO says the agency's Business Systems Modernization is changing systems and spending for the better

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Tech research boost advances

Committee approves R&D bills, with amendment for research into handling information during crises

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Air Force trying to keep up

The Air Force's lengthy acquisition strategy is hindering it from keeping up with technology advancements

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Enduring Freedom tests logistics

System is performing admirably that tells DOD exactly where an asset is from factory to foxhole

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INTERVIEW: Alan Balutis, FGIPC’s bridge-builder

Alan P. Balutis accumulated a quarter-century of federal experience before becoming in April the first person to serve as executive director and chief operating officer of the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils and its affiliate, the Industry Advisory Council.<@SM>