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Survey shows Web doesn’t replace personal contact
The availability of electronic services hasn’t reduced the need for phone and in-person contacts with federal employees, a new study concludes.
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Digital government academic society forming
Organizers of the digital government research and development conference are planning to start their own independent society.
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Defense awards Deloitte ERP consulting contract
The Defense Department has awarded Deloitte Consulting LLP a blanket purchase agreement to bid on enterprise resource planning implementation projects.
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NASA’s O’Keefe: We saw the trouble coming
Agency's administrator says they knew the transition of data from dozens of older financial systems would cause problems.
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NASA’s ERP project goes awry, GAO tells panel
NASA has bungled its $982.7 million enterprise resource planning system project in a way that caused the agency to lose track of $2 billion in its Treasury Department account and forced it to adjust its books, witnesses told a House committee last week.
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VA, DOD two-way medical data exchange uncertain, GAO says
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are proceeding with development of their own computer-based patient records systems but lack a clear strategy as to how to build electronic data exchange capability.
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FEA security layer due this summer
The Office of Management and Budget by the end of the summer will release a security layer for the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
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GSA’s E-Travel is ready to leave the station
The National Science Foundation has waited nearly three years for an electronic travel system, but patience seems to be paying off.<@SM><@SM>The agency will join seven others as the first adopters of the General Services Administration’s E-Travel initiative. By early summer, NSF plans to award a task order for a reservation and voucher system to one of three E-Travel contractors: Carlson Wagonlit Government Travel Inc. of San Antonio, EDS Corp. or the Mission Systems unit of Northrop Grumman Corp.
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E-gov progress is slight on new OMB scorecard
The Office of Management and Budget’s latest scorecard for the President’s Management Agenda, covering January through March, shows that only two agencies improved their e-government scores since the last ratings in December. The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development moved to yellow from red.
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Limited progress noted on DOD business architecture
GAO said the DOD still has no one responsible for the accountability and responsibility of directing, overseeing and approving the business enterprise architecture. <@SM><@SM><@SM>
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NASA systems: Houston, we have a problem
Mistakes in implementing its enterprise resource planning system have perpetuated NASA's lack of adequate financial controls, GAO tells a House committee.
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GCN Survey: For IT managers, it’s patch-as-patch-can
Feeling a little overwhelmed by the flood of patches from software vendors? You’re not alone.
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E-gov progress on OMB scorecard shifts little
Even after two years of evaluations by the Office of Management and Budget, agencies still cannot meet the administration’s goals for e-government.
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Army selects software to upgrade its portal
The Army has upgraded its Army Knowledge Online portal that provides single sign-on access to roughly 300 Army applications and services.
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Agriculture software to better manage conservation lands
Web-based software will more efficiently rank offers based on environmental benefits and cost, calculate payment rates and eligibility determinations.
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GAO says VA, DOD e-health data interface lacks detailed plan
Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have failed to initiate a defined architecture and project management to develop a two-way electronic exchange of patient health data, GAO reported.<@SM>
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Military health records contract awarded
The Department of Defense's Theater Medical Information Program awards contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. for software applications.
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Capitol architect signs 10-year services contract
Avue Technologies Corp. has sold its workforce management services to the Architect of the Capitol in a 10-year deal worth more than $30 million.
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OMB to make biz cases a bit easier
Agencies working on their IT business cases for the 2006 budget will, for the first time in five years, get to follow a familiar format.<@SM><@SM>
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GSA approves E-Travel systems
All three E-Travel vendors’ systems were approved and certified as ready to make federal employees’ travel easier, the GSA said Monday.
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