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Place security before politics
Bureaucratus column: Federal employees probably will be paid twice as much as their private-sector counterparts, attracting more skilled workers
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Siebel picks its targets
Vendor views customer relationship management as central to homeland security, e-government initiatives
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Logistics update pays dividends
The Air Force this month begins testing an update to one of its central logistics systems that could help supply its forces in the Middle East
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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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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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