Digital Government

Move money to high-end computing, connectivity, administration says

Agencies should reallocate funds from lower-priority efforts, Office of Management and Budget officials say.

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Johnson to Congress: Get 'smart'

Congressional appropriators cutting funds for e-government initiatives in spending bills will not hamper the initiatives, said Clay Johnson, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget.

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E-Rules, Version 2.0

A more perfect Web site: Regulations.gov being revamped

Digital Government

Campaigning enters the Internet Age

Experts evaluate the online packaging of Bush, Kerry

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Want .gov? That'll be $125.

State and local agencies must now pay before taking advantage of a year-old GSA decision to loosen the federal hold on the .gov domain.

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Board: IRS still on hot seat

Officials on the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, who are strong proponents of the agency's attempt to modernize its Kennedy-era tax-processing technology, have also become some of its loudest critics.

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Land reservation systems will merge

ReserveAmerica will get $128 million to create a single online federal recreation info and reservation site.

Acquisition

Antitrust unit retains DigitalNet

The company's network administration deal was extended.

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Management agenda progresses

More than 40 percent of government agencies lack an acceptable justification for big IT investments, OMB says.

Digital Government

Funding cuts won't kill e-gov

But the administration needs Congress to be smarter about spending decisions, an OMB official said.

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IRS wins A-76 bid, cuts 218 jobs

IRS officials decided to restructure the agency's IT operations at 10 sites with the loss of 218 jobs.

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IRS cuts 218 tech jobs

Only 60 employees will be left in the agency's Modernization and Information Technology Services mainframe printing operation.

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Oversight Board: IRS modernization still troubled

Problems are 'too severe for half-measures,' according to the IRS Oversight Board's 2004 annual report.

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E-gov award disputed

Liquidity Services protested GSA's award of a $500 million contract to Maximus.

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Feds see red over OMB scoring

Some feds say they've had enough of OMB's quarterly evaluations of agency progress on the President's Management Agenda.

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GAO: Money watchdogs need central database

Financial regulators need a cross-industry database for keeping track of enforcement actions, Government Accountability Office officials said.

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Kerry plugs site

More people visited the Democratic candidate's site during his acceptance speech than usually do during an entire day.

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Got .gov? That'll be $125

GSA has started charging for .gov domains.

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Feds give low grades to OMB scoring system

Color-coded bubble charts are not the best way to evaluate progress in achieving the President's Management Agenda, several federal information technology executives said today.

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Burton sees workforce problems

Acquisition personnel quality is down, says the associate administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.