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XBRL holds promise for sleuths at SEC

The trick is getting corporations to adopt the business reporting language when filing their financial statements.

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CIO Council sets rules for Core.gov

The CIO Council has published the operational procedures for the federal Component Organization and Registration Environment Web repository.

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USDA seeks integrated financial-management system

The Agriculture Department wants to replace its core financial-management system with an updated one that provides general accounting, funds management and financial reports.

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Treasury considers HR Connect hosting options

The Treasury Department seeks comments from federal and commercial data center providers about the availability and cost savings of alternative hosting and infrastructure support services options for the department's human resources system.

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Federal grants sites merge, traffic increases

Two federal Web sites for grant applications merged under the auspices of the Grants.gov e-government project earlier this month.

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OPM taps State agency as newest E-Training service provider

The Office of Personnel Management has added the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute to its E-Training faculty.

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OMB policy on posting information sparks debate

The new policy asking agencies to improve how they disseminate public information is at the heart of a larger battle over how much categorization is needed to make data publicly accessible.

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VA expands online grave site locator

The Veterans Affairs Department has significantly increased its online list of burial locations and information inscribed on the markers to more than 5 million.

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OMB releases new version of DRM

The Office of Management and Budget has posted the second version of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model, designed to boost cross-agency sharing of information.

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After finding success in 2005, OMB sets e-gov bar high in 2006

In its annual Expanding E-Government report, sent to Congress to coincide with the third anniversary of the E-Government Act of 2002, OMB said agencies fully reached two of the five goals it set last year and came close on two others.

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GSA contract for FedBizOpps under protest, again

Development InfoStructure Corp. of Arlington, Va., once again is protesting the General Services Administration’s award of the contract to run the government procurement portal to Symplicity Corp. of Arlington, Va.

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Houston counts down to SAP enterprise software liftoff

The city of Houston is dragging its antiquated IT system into the 21st century with the aim of improving efficiency and customer service.<@SM>

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Interior adding services, customers to Lines of Business

The Interior Department’s National Business Center is preparing up to four proposals to compete to provide financial management services for agencies as a center of excellence under the Lines of Business Consolidation Initiative.<@SM>

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Survey credits E-gov initiatives with increasing satisfaction with federal Web site

Satisfaction with federal Web sites improved for the third consecutive quarter, demonstrating that the Bush administration’s E-government initiatives are making an impact.

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House seeks a host to webcast committee hearings

The House of Representatives is looking for a vendor to handle all live streaming services for the legislative chamber’s 20 individual committees.

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IRS takes ownership of modernization projects

It’s a short distance from the IRS’ business systems modernization office to its business systems development office, but the agency has traveled a long way to move its applications from one to the other.

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CADE to expand tax processing with Form 1040s

The IRS’ relational database will likely process 4 million tax returns in the 2006 tax season beginning next month.

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CIO Council committee, GPO discuss XML template

Officials from the CIO Council have held preliminary discussions with the Government Printing Office about developing a standard Extensible Markup Language vocabulary that all agencies could use to disseminate information online.

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IRS to roll out tax collection system

The IRS is continuing to develop applications to advance its modernization efforts, while beginning to simplify the increasing complexity of the modernization process.<@SM>

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Science.gov upgrades to Version 3.0

The newest version of the Science.gov search engine uses metadata to rank results, which should give users more accurate responses to queries, according to the <a href="http://Science.gov">Science.gov</a> Alliance.