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OMB directs agencies to name senior geospatial official
The Office of Management and Budget is directing major agencies to designate within 45 days a senior agency official for geospatial information, according to Clay Johnson, OMB's deputy director for management.
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Dave Combs | Enterprise efforts are in tune at USDA
Agriculture CIO Dave Combs, who took the reins last summer, has had a career as varied as USDA’s business lines.<@SM>
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Feds showed e-Gov progress during '05 hurricane season
Federal agencies made use of a number of e-government initiatives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year, demonstrating their ability to find and provide information and services electronically and more efficiently.<@SM>
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Education to modernize school, lender management operations
The Education Department seeks to develop a system for an integrated partner management system to support enrollment and oversight of schools and lenders in the Federal Student Aid program.<@SM><@SM>
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OMB working with agencies on EVM as deadline nears
The Office of Management and Budget has been pushing civilian agencies to use earned-value management so that project managers can track money spent on a project almost in real time and measure that expense against timelines and deadlines.<@SM>
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Sweeping changes urged for U.S. response to emergencies
The Homeland Security Department should set up a national operations center to integrate federal agency response and give a unified view of disasters, according to recommendations made by the White House and released in a report today.<@SM>
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Information-sharing underlies agencies' strategies
Agencies are focusing this year and next year on ways to extract and share data through modernizing and consolidating infrastructure, as well as making better use of the information that is collected through business processes.
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Five companies land agreement to support LOB initiatives
The General Services Administration awarded a blanket purchase agreement to five vendors to support the Office of Management and Budget’s Lines of Business consolidation initiatives.<@SM>
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IRS walks fine line on modernization cost, schedule, budget: GAO
The IRS is trying to balance getting its Business Systems Modernization projects delivered on time and within cost on a lean budget, while meeting additional congressional mandates for performance accountability to gain access to its funds.<@SM>
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NARA finalizes rule on short-term e-records
The National Archives and Records Administration has issued a final rule that gives agencies guidance on how to define and maintain short-term electronic records, including e-mail.<@SM>
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Transportation’s financial system checks out
Focus on business processes made DOT’s ERP a center of excellence<@SM>
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Budget puts IT on new course
2007 proposal reflects OMB’s emphasis on blending tech into business processes
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Security LOB to focus on training, reporting
OMB will set up centers of excellence later this year for training and security reporting for mandates such as the Federal Information Security Management Act in the fiscal 2007 budget submitted to Congress earlier this month.<@SM>
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GSA to use Web video to detail Alliant strategy
The video will cover major issues that have been raised since the initial draft RFPs were released, as well as changes to the two IT procurements the General Services Administration has made in response.<@SM><@SM><@SM>
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Excellence.gov awardees focus on info-sharing
The Justice Department, the Army and the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are among those being feted by the American Council for Technology and the Industry Advisory Council this year.<@SM>
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Without a trace
Documents can reveal supposedly deleted data, but fortunately there are ways to make sure that secrets stay secret.
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Feds seek input before soliciting Grants.gov integrator
In a recent request for information, HHS said that the Grants.gov Web site has significantly grown since its inception in 2003, and a new systems integrator may be needed as the portal’s use increases.<@SM>
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FEMA technology set for upgrade
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will get improved logistics systems, better customer service systems for disaster victims, modified contracting practices and better communications under new plans announced yesterday.<@SM>
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