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CIO Council gets new look, new direction
President Bush’s Office of Management and Budget has radically overhauled the CIO Council, abolishing committees, changing members’ assignments and giving the group new priorities.
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E-gov bill author is optimistic
Mark Forman may not be the federal CIO, but his appointment earlier this year as IT point man shows that the Bush administration is aware e-government programs need strong leadership, said the chief author of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman’s E-Government Act of 2001.
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OMB nears approval of e-gov plans
The Bush administration is two steps away from activating 23 cross-agency e-government projects that, together, represent a nearly $1 billion investment.
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All About Kids
The dwindling federal IT work force has a hard time coping with citizens’ telephone and e-mail queries, said webmasters at FedWeb 2001, an annual conference held last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
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eArmyU portal takes enroll call
As a single mother and an enlisted Army sergeant at Fort Benning, Ga., it was hard for Andrea Pratt to juggle all of her responsibilities and attend college.
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CIO Council gets new priorities
HERSHEY, Pa. -- The Office of Management and Budget has radically overhauled the CIO Council by abolishing committees, changing<@SM>members' assignments and setting new priorities. The changes came after months of consultation with <b>Mark Forman</b>, OMB associate director for IT and electronic government.<@SM>
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GSA sets up business registry portal
Dry cleaners, restaurants and trucking companies will be the first to get one-stop business registration and licensing services from a new General Services Administration Web portal.
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Education site gets new look
The Education Department today launched a redesigned Web site with easier information access and user personalization.
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Tennessee upgrades with new car titling, registration system
Tennessee Motor Vehicles Department employees will have an easier time tracking and maintaining residents’ vehicle title and registration information thanks to a new $14.2 million system the state will install over the next three years.
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Commerce Web site aims to boost small-business exports
The Commerce Department this week launched a Web service aimed at connecting U.S. businesses with buyers and partners around the world.
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The customer comes first at forum
One of the ways government is like business is that they both have customers, particularly when government offers enhanced services online. That’s why customer relationship management has become a hot topic in government circles—it not only helps managers focus on delivering citizen-centric services, it can help agencies achieve paperless processes and other IT goals.<@SM>
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FirstGov handles millions of Web hits after attacks
Like a seismograph needle during an earthquake, the activity on FirstGov, the General Services Administration’s portal to government Web sites, posted a sharp spike during last month’s terrorist attacks.
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President’s Management Council approves 23 federal projects
The President’s Management Council, made up of 29 chief agency operating officers, this week approved 23 e-government projects. “Each of these initiatives represent this concept that I’ve been laying out: Unify and simplify,” said <b>Mark Forman</b>, associate director for IT and e-government at the Office of Management and Budget.<@SM>
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Agency webmasters aid in recovery
E-government wasn’t a major focus as the government got back to work after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, but federal agencies did use the Web for a variety of purposes.
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Brown University study finds city Web sites lacking
The Web sites of the 70 largest American cities need major improvements and offer little more than basic information, researchers at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy said.<@SM>
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Bush forming panel of science, technology advisers
President Bush yesterday signed an executive order creating the latest incarnation of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, a group made up almost entirely of private industry and academic advisers.
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Va. governor goes to conference via IP
When a scheduling conflict prevented Virginia Gov. James Gilmore from attending the Commonwealth of Virginia Information Technology Symposium in Lexington last week, the state IT Department made sure he was there.
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HHS to integrate Medicare accounting
The Health and Human Services Department yesterday launched a long-term project, worth up to $328.4 million, to unify Medicare’s multiple accounting systems. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contracted with PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. of New York to act as systems integrator for the new Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System.
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Ohio child support system runs up against $16 million fine
Officials, IT workers and contractors at the Ohio Job and Family Services Department are working almost around the clock to stave off federal fines of up to $16 million. By Oct. 5 they must reprogram and test the statewide child support system.
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NMCI payment deferred
The Navy will pay Electronic Data Systems Corp. $128 million less in fiscal 2002 than was stated in the original task order for funding the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
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