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The E-Learning project has to repeat a grade

The Office of Personnel Management earlier this month re-released the E-Learning solicitation after vendor concerns over the fairness of the procurement forced the agency to pull it back last month.

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USDA’s buy for recreation site draws protest

Spherix Inc. has protested the Agriculture Department’s award of a contract to ReserveAmerica for the consolidated National Recreation Reservation System.

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OMB sets plan to review all 25 e-gov projects

By the end of the month, the Office of Management and Budget plans to hire a contractor to make sure all 25 e-government projects comply with federal laws and regulations.

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Labor pushes its electronic agenda forward

The Labor Department has rolled out new e-government initiatives to bring services and information to the public quickly and easily as well as handle internal business efficiently.

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Michigan gets double duty out of content management

After Michigan moved its unemployment services to centralized call centers, its new content management system took on the extra job of managing the case loads.

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OMB to verify, validate e-gov projects

The Office of Management and Budget by Sept. 30 will hire a contractor to make sure all 25 e-government projects comply with federal laws and regulations.

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OPM re-issues E-Learning solicitation

After vendor concerns over the fairness of the procurement forced OPM to pull it back, agency re-releases E-Learning solicitation.

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First-hand experience shows how process modeling can help

If you’ve ever worked with process and business modeling software, chances are you’ve felt like a character in a Dilbert cartoon.

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Seven questions to ask before you switch your switch

The first step an agency should take toward adopting voice over IP is to assess its network, said Jeff Snyder, vice president of Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn.

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The lowdown on project management software

<b>What is it?</b> Project management software is one tool, often working with portfolio management and enterprise resource planning software, to manage the risks and results of projects.

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Project management heads uptown

The project management software category has evolved far beyond the desktop to become just one, albeit vital, tool among many now used to capture the risks and rewards of projects, portfolios and entire programs.<@SM>

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Niku’s open-source tool a work in progress

Niku Corp., one of the major manufacturers of industrial-strength portfolio and project management software, announced it was making its Workbench project scheduling tool available for free through the open-source development community.

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Audit supports Social Security progress

Performance indicators audit notes progress in Social Security Administration’s development and protection of management information systems.

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Group developing strategy for easier records management

The Electronic Records Working Group would launch an e-records management toolkit, supports standard metadata elements and definitions.

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Records agency automates its FISMA process

The government’s move toward electronic documents is producing unexpected benefits for the nation’s chief record-keeper.

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Seeking e-gov users, OMB goes Madison Avenue

Planning and development are done, the technology and administration are in place, and all that’s left for three e-government projects is for the Office of Management and Budget to unveil them to the public.

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Bidder protests recreation contract award

Contract award to ReserveAmerica for the consolidated National Recreation Reservation System draws a protest.<@SM>

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DOD to call for reviews of buying to ‘Get It Right’

In an effort to allay lawmakers’ concerns about contracting problems, the Defense Department’s top procurement officer plans to issue a memo requiring the military services to review planned purchases from multiple-award schedules.

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OMB lays out R&D priorities for IT in 2006

The Bush administration has placed supercomputing and cyberinfrastructure among its highest priorities for agency R&D efforts in fiscal 2006.

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Net-centric approach creates a software challenge

As the Defense Department gears its networks for greater use, its software needs also are changing.