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GSA awards Symplicity new FedBizOpps.gov contract
The General Services Administration’s Federal Technology Service late last week awarded Symplicity Corp. the contract to run the federal government’s procurement portal.
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DOD promises to follow the rules on business modernization approval
The Government Accountability Office has put the Defense Department’s problematic Business Management Modernization Program on its high-risk list for the last 10 years partly because of Defense agencies’ reluctance to ensure projects abide by DOD’s Business Enterprise Architecture.
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NIST to begin accrediting labs for voting system evaluations
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun an accreditation program for laboratories that want to evaluate voting systems under the Help America Vote Act.
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GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
Yes, we nod, we understand the potential need for mobile storage area networks, such as the one Xiotech Corp. of Eden Prairie, Minn., introduced today.
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Executive suite: Putting the Clinger-Cohen Act in perspective
It’s been nearly a decade since Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.) and Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine) put the finishing touches on the landmark legislation, the Information Technology Management Reform Act.
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A fine line on LOB
Agency CIOs face a broad array of issues and concerns in adapting the Office of Management and Budget’s Lines-of-Business initiatives into their enterprise architectures.
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Patent Office embraces 21st-century FTP
The Patent and Trademark Office has implemented an electronic transfer system to move large files of sensitive and complex data over the Internet rather than transport it on tape.
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DHS blinks on deadline for e-passports, allows digital photos
The Homeland Security Department will require that Visa Waiver Program countries produce passports with digital photographs by Oct. 26, but will allow another one-year extension for those countries to comply with issuing e-passports.
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EPA pilots capability to file once, use often
The agency will streamline reporting for its Toxics Release Inventory by enabling companies in three states to submit their annual accounting of dangerous chemical releases once to EPA’s Central Data Exchange using the TRI-ME reporting software.
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EPA finds competitive sourcing may compete with Lines of Business
The agency will release a three-year plan soon on how it will expand competitive sourcing to more tasks that the agency previously categorized as inherently governmental.
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Spending panel reins in e-government projects
The House Appropriations Committee has attached a legislative tether to e-government projects that requires the administration to seek Congress’ approval to launch or squelch even minor projects in the e-government sphere.
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Kentucky seals financial ERP deal with CGI-AMS
The commonwealth of Kentucky has awarded a $6 million contract to CGI-AMS for the implementation of an enterprise resource planning solution to streamline business processes and improve productivity.
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Defense looks to AT&T unit for GIG-BE support work
The Defense Department has awarded AT&T Government Solutions a subcontract to provide engineering and installation work at key locations in the United States and abroad for DOD’s Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion project.
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First draft of revised Data Reference Model released
The federal Data Reference Model working group released the first draft of the DRM Specification today. The working group is now soliciting feedback from government agencies before it submits the DRM to the Office of Management and Budget.
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Rep. Wolf extends telecommuting penalty for another year
NASA and the National Science Foundation could join the departments of Commerce, Justice and State as agencies that could lose funding if they don’t meet a federal telecommuting mandate.
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Forrester study finds slowing e-gov adoption
The Presidential e-Government Initiatives of 2000 have lost much of their steam because people still prefer to interact with federal agencies over the telephone.
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Army to look at beefing up security along Global Information Grid
The Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations will unveil a document that looks at improving the way users manage and defend the Global Information Grid.
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IG: Homeland Security IT systems not disaster-ready
Fifteen of the 19 IT facilities reviewed at the department either had no recovery sites or their recovery sites were not fully operational, the IG found.
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Army announces enterprise consolidation plan
The Army will begin an enterprise consolidation plan next year that will see the creation of two area processing centers to include a variety of computer servers.
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