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Texas wildlife work to continue with Verizon

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has awarded a contract to Verizon Business to continue providing an automated system to process hunting and fishing licenses.

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Bill provision would repeal GSA's new office

The General Services Administration’s move to combine its Office of Governmentwide Policy and Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs under a new office may be in jeopardy.<@SM>

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PDF format up for ISO stamp

The multiplatform format is widely used across government to digitize print documents and build electronic forms.<@SM>

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Regulations.gov to nearly triple number of rules posted

Only about 36 percent of all documents that support federal rules are posted on Regulations.gov, but that will change over the next 11 months.

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Treasury, Illinois pilot federal-state tax payment system

The Treasury and Illinois Revenue departments are testing the ability of state business taxpayers to be able to pay their state withholding taxes at the same time as their federal taxes through a single system.

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Cost of two factors adds up

SPECIAL REPORT: Case study no. 2 | Authentication steps could be difficult for existing equipment.

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Commerce uses encryption to help steel notebooks

SPECIAL REPORT: Case study no. 1 | Departmentwide data security software aims for ease of use.

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Pentagon to contractors: Meet DOD InfoSec standards

The Defense Department wants to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to address training requirements that apply to contractor personnel who perform information assurance functions.

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Tech briefs

Dell's semi-rugged notebook PC; XML standards; industry news

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Enter here

No longer the ‘next big thing’ of the late 1990s, Web portals are back.

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Agencies feel botnets’ light footprint

SPECIAL REPORT: The Next Steps for Security | DHS pilot helps agencies monitor network intrusions.

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Secure Measures

SPECIAL REPORT: The Next Steps for Security | Agencies work to catch up to OMB mandates for protecting mobile data.

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Tool lets agencies show OMB the IT money

Electronic Capital Planning and Investment Control application integrates architecture, performance and security data.

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Defense Travel System under review

Congress has reservations about system’s cost, efficiency.

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Telework culture lagging: survey

The federal government has a way to go if it is going to establish a culture favorable to telework, according to a new survey of federal managers.<@SM>

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Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: E-gov’s true measure

OMB' report to Congress on the 25 e-government projects suggests both the progress the initiatives have made and the challenges they still face.

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First labs receive initial OK for voting system testing program

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has recommended that two Colorado laboratories be accredited to test voting systems against federal standards.

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Waxman to probe Doan's dealings

Rep. Henry Waxman has requested information from GSA administrator Lurita Doan as part of an investigation into allegations about her intervention in proceedings to consider the suspension or debarment of major IT contractors and other procurement irregularities.<@SM><@SM>

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GSA unveils USA.gov

Welcome to USA.gov—the new Web site of the federal government.

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GSA hopes to cuts costs, paperwork of schedules

The General Services Administrations is trying to decrease the time and burden for vendors to get on Federal Supply Schedules.