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GSA to monitor response to award management system

GSA's leader says the reactions of agencies to his efforts to fix the troubled System for Award Management will be his metric for sucess.

Acquisition

GSA OASIS contract enters home stretch

OASIS is intended to solve many of the problems associated with professional services contracting, and a draft RFP is just a few weeks away.

Modernization

4 steps toward smart data center consolidation

A report from IDC offers strategies for agencies working to eliminate redundant servers and migrate applications to a cloud environment.

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Obama remark gives sequestration hope

A remark in the Oct. 22 presidential debate has led to speculation about the prospect of averting budget cuts set to hit in January.

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Consortium names award in honor of Lynn McNulty

Information security consortium (ISC)2 has created a new honor as a memorial to a cybersecurity pioneer.

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IG recommends ways to prevent Medicare fraud

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs to tighten up its security to reduce the risk of Medicare fraud through identity theft, according to an audit.

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NIST fellow wins Nobel Prize for physics

David J. Wineland, a physicist, won the honor for work in quantum systems.

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NIST fellow wins Nobel

David J. Wineland was surprised by a phone call informing him he had won the Nobel Prize for physics.