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NOAA updates policy on weather info dissemination
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has updated its policy on sharing weather-related information.<@SM>
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Congress defuses attacks on e-gov, competitive sourcing
Congress late last week gave two of the administration’s top management priorities—competitive sourcing and e-government—a shot in the arm.
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Chiefs might change, but management stays the same
When Colin Powell arrived at the State Department four years ago, its IT infrastructure was in shambles.
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Success at IRS? Systems coming online at last
Having brought four systems online over the past few months, the IRS and contractor Computer Sciences Corp. want to build on the momentum they have gained in the Business Systems Modernization program.
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Agencies setting up lines-of-business management structure
Even though the president’s fiscal 2006 budget is far from complete, agencies leading the lines-of-business e-government initiatives are moving forward.
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Another View: E-government is changing
he U.S. government is not the only one trying to figure out the next steps in e-government, outsourcing and communications.
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Government’s E-Authentication scheme just might work, study says
The initiative could be a model for far-reaching authentication programs linking government and private-sector organizations, a study concluded.
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Health IT czar issues health network RFI
“With the exception of a few isolated regional projects, the United States does not currently have meaningful health information interoperability capabilities,” Dr. David Brailer says in his RFI about a national health network.
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GAO investigation of e-voting problems requested
Democrats have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate reports of voting irregularities, many involving electronic touch-screen voting machines.
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States continue to join EPA Exchange Network
States are buying in to the Environmental Information Exchange Network, with six adding nodes in the past six weeks.
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Navy puts all coursework on one site
The Navy's E-Learning distance learning system has moved to the Navy Knowledge Online Web portal.
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Vegas voters favor electronic system--with a receipt
Given a choice between an electronic machine that produces a receipt of their votes or a paper ballot, Las Vegas voters chose the receipt.
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HHS unveils family health history software
Health and Human Services is offering free software to help Americans learn their families’ health histories and promote personal health.<@SM>
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No mandate for e-voting, computer scientist says
Despite wide use in last week’s presidential election, direct-recording electronic voting is still a faulty method of casting ballots, one computer scientist argues.<@SM>
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OMB releases much-anticipated data model
The Interior Department’s Recreation One-Stop e-government project hit a wall: Federal and state government partners working on the project could not agree on what data to include and share for making reservations at state and national parks.
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Energy lab readies for Solaris 10
A global collaboration grid at an Energy Department laboratory will lean on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. and the company’s new Solaris 10 operating system to allow data sharing across multiple levels of security and confidentiality.
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Manage your project portfolio your way
Say you’re an agency competing for millions of dollars in project funding.
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CIO Council group lists ways to improve e-records management
OMB and NARA need to improve accountability and managerial support, and create an advisory board to enhance management of e=-ecords, a report said.
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The life & times of data
The Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command faced an age-old problem: The amount of data it needed to keep was growing faster than the storage system designed to hold it.
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