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Tax filers jumping on the e-train
Electronic filing of tax returns is running 9 percent ahead of last year, with more than 33.5 million returns e-filed through Feb. 27, the IRS said today. <@SM>
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Another View: Good decision-making needs good IT
The purported intelligence failures regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are stark reminders of the role IT has—or should have—in fixing longstanding government problems.
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Pushing for cybersecurity, e-gov
Sen. Susan Collins was born into a political family. Her mother and father each served at separate times as the mayor of Caribou, Maine. So it came as no surprise when her first job out of college in 1975 was working on the Washington staff of Maine Sen. William Cohen, an author of the Clinger-Cohen Act. After 12 years of working for the Republican lawmaker, Collins served as a cabinet secretary for Gov. John McKernan for five years and as head of the New England regional office of the Small Business Administration for a year.
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OMB: Agencies improve IT security, but many are short of goals
Agency IT security has shown marked improvement over the last three years, but too many departments still fall short of Federal Information Security Management Act goals, OMB reported today.
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CIOs blame slow pace of e-gov on funding hurdles
Federal CIOs are frustrated with the pace of e-government and funding continues to be a thorny issue, a new survey by the Information Technology Association of America concludes.<br>
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More e-filing of early tax returns
Electronic filing of taxes is up sharply this year because more individuals are using their computers to file returns, the IRS said today.<br>
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GSA’s Sindelar takes on familiar role for OMB, e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget is getting serious about its line of business consolidation initiatives—called by some the next wave of e-government projects.
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DHS will be shopping at DOD’s EMall
The Homeland Security Department earlier this month announced it will use a tailored version of the Defense Department’s EMall portal to buy goods and services from existing DOD contracts. EMall will also carry items that can be procured through DHS contracts.
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DOD pulls plug on Internet voting overseas
After initially defending its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment against criticism that it was not secure enough, the Pentagon cancelled SERVE plans for this fall’s presidential election.
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Agencies embrace electronic payments
Federal agencies increasingly are paying vendors by electronic funds transfer instead of checks.<br>
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Michael Daconta: The semantic Web
Need help sorting through Web services? What is the semantic Web? Internet expert and researcher Michael Daconta, author of a book by the same title, answered questions Feb. 12 in a live, online forum. <a href="http://gcn.com/forum/qna_forum/24897-2.html">Transcript</a>
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USDA brews a plan for electronic receipts for coffee trades
The Agriculture Department has OK’ed the use of electronic warehouse receipts for the handling of coffee trades. <@SM>
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Citizens do trust some agencies with personal information
Citizens trust the Postal Service, Veterans Affairs Department and IRS to secure their personal information, according to a new survey.<br>
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GovBenefits will use FirstGov’s content management system
The Labor Department this summer will piggyback on the content management system of the General Services Administration’s FirstGov portal for the government’s GovBenefits site.<br><@SM>
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How major IT projects made out, by agency
Agriculture Department USDA would get $46 million for increased testing and surveillance and development of an animal identification system to protect the food supply from mad cow disease. The system will include radio frequency ID tags for animals and databases for animal and facilities identification.
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Online extra: White House backs joint projects on health care, bioterror detection
Sharing technology across agencies to integrate federal processes and improve efficiency is an administration priority.
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DHS buys into EMall
The Homeland Security Department today announced it will use a tailored version of the Defense Department’s electronic shopping mall to buy goods and services.<br>
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Online extra: Congress rebuffs E-Gov Fund, centralized hiring site in ’04 spending
The $820 billion fiscal 2004 omnibus bill clears $328 billion in discretionary spending, including roughly $57 billion for IT.
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President Bush’s 2005 proposal would amount to 1 percent bump
The startlingly small 1 percent increase for IT funding outlined in President Bush’s fiscal 2005 budget proposal illustrates that agencies are heeding the administration’s call to closely mesh systems and mission requirements.
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Online extra: OMB looks to ordering fees to cover E-Gov Fund shortfall
The Office of Management and Budget is asking lawmakers to change the law that governs how the Federal Supply Service spends surplus revenue.
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