Digital Government

Government still can't reconcile books

GAO blames outdated financial management systems for continuing problems

Modernization

WorldCom captures research net deal

DISA awarded WorldCom the contract to deliver high-speed networking services to the Defense Department's scientific and research communities

Modernization

WorldCom picked for DREN contract

DISA awards much-delayed contract for the Defense Research Engineering Network to connect DOD researchers

People

Munns spells out NMCI priorities

Testing, timetable and legacy systems dominate NMCI program manager's focus on Navy network

People

Financial systems still troubled

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

People

DOD details IT wish list

Fiscal 2003 budget request up 12 percent

People

Intercepts

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

People

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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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 reacts to credit card abuse

Department plans to introduce administrative and legislative changes to fix recurring problems

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Navy creates network command

The Naval Network Warfare Command will enable the service to better support the concept of one naval network

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DOD group approves biz projects

The Business Initiative Council chose four new initiatives to help the department improve operations and save 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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NMCI passes first tests

Tests of NMCI revealed some initial start-up problems, but they did not raise any significant operational concerns

Digital Government

Intercepts

War on terrorism? Pentagon officials have launched an all-out war on credit card problems

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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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Navy stovepipes prove resilient

Scores of legacy applications are forcing customers to maintain separate systems that NMCI was intended to replace

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Marines name NMCI manager

The Marine Corps officially has named Richard Glover as its program manager for the NMCI initiative

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DOD to probe credit card abuse

Rumsfeld asks for investigation about abuse of government-issued purchase cards

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Foreign worker policy questioned

Industry reps urge DOD for review of proposed policy that could prohibit noncitizens from working on IT projects