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Md. elections CIO says e-voting flaws ‘mitigated’

Maryland voters can rest assured their votes will be safely and accurately counted next month, says the Maryland Elections Board CIO.<@SM>

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Agriculture launches personal Web pages

The department is giving visitors to its Web site the ability to customize the homepage to fit their needs.

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App lets Air Force, Navy gain control of workflow

The first year the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii began using Concerto software to accelerate the flow of projects, officials cut overtime by $9 million.

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Meyerriecks helped put Defense systems on common ground

Create a common operating environment for the military’s IT infrastructure, lead the team moving the Defense Department from legacy systems and mainframes to IP networks, commercial software and PCs, and act as chief architect of the Global Command and Control System used by all of DOD today.

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Nelson applies an enterprise view to EPA’s systems strategy

A single, apt metaphor could help explain the success of Kim Nelson, CIO of the Environmental Protection Agency and recipient of GCN’s Civilian Executive of the Year award.

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Air Force expands parts tracking app to other must-have data

Air Force Knowledge Services can analyze aircraft uptime so efficiently that the Air Force is expanding it to other kinds of intelligence.

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Thompson takes Symantec well beyond its antivirus roots

Symantec Corp. built its name on its flagship Norton system maintenance and antivirus products.

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Carlin goes the distance for NARA

The responsibilities of the National Archives and Records Administration are daunting by any standard. In charge of managing the essential documents that define America, the independent federal agency also responds to more than 13 million government and 2 million public requests for information annually.<@SM>

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From complex to the commonplace, EPA calls its own numbers

The Environmental Protection Agency’s finance and budget workers used to spend late nights and weekends trying to decipher the agency’s budget figures.

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HHS, other agencies collaborate to make Grants.gov pay off

If it takes nimble cross-government collaboration to really make electronic government work, Grants.gov is well ahead of the pack.

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Interstate exchange: Management was key to putting EPA network together

From the beginning, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Information Exchange Network initiative looked like a tall order.

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President Bush, Senator Frist name health IT group members

The president and Senate majority leader name first members to a commission that will set a strategy for creating universal health records.

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OMB renews push to decrease paperwork burden

Three times a charm? The Bush administration asks agencies to identify a trio of initiatives that will lighten the paperwork load on the public.<@SM>

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IRS adds e-feature for earned income credit

The IRS today launched an application to help tax preparers determine whether their clients are eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, while minimizing errors.<br><@SM>

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SEC to make online authentication more stringent

“We’re looking at implementing a new authentication system to prevent people from fraudulently filing,” SEC chief security officer Chrisan Herrod says.

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Online Extra: USDA secretary makes e-gov's case to Congress

With a portion of their funding for e-government initiatives at risk, Agriculture Department secretary Ann M. Veneman took the unusual step of taking her agency’s case directly to Congress.

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Online Extra: Algorithms are the engines of data mining

At the core of many data-mining tools are the algorithms, or sets of rules, that the apps use to winnow data and select useful information.

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USDA launches e-loan payment service for farmers

The Agriculture Department has launched an electronic service to let farmers and ranchers request and receive loan deficiency payments online.

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Senator says ‘major breakdown of stovepipes’ is coming at DOD

Network-centric warfare programs will get about $25 billion of a $440 billion Defense Department authorization bill, Sen. John Warner predicted this month.

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Air Force Materiel Command gets SMART with Web tool

The Air Force Materiel Command is using a Web system to manage and track its acquisition contracts from a centralized location.