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Commerce’s Bodman to head PMC e-gov committee

Samuel W. Bodman, the deputy secretary of the Commerce Department, will be chairman of the E-Government Committee of the President’s Management Council.<br><@SM>

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Central authentication gateway plan is history

The administration is scrapping plans for a centralized E-Authentication gateway, which has been touted as a cornerstone of e-government.

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EPA questions GAO’s E-Rulemaking audit

Environmental Protection Agency officials are questioning the timing of a recent General Accounting Office report criticizing the rollout and progress of the E-Rulemaking project.<br>

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GSA will link many pieces of e-procurement

By spring, the General Services Administration will begin to connect some of the pieces of the Integrated Acquisition Environment e-government project.<@SM>

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Taking measure of e-gov projects

As many agencies struggle to define ways to measure the performance of their IT investments, the General Services Administration seems to have found a method that works.

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OMB maps a plan for advancing SmartBuy

The Office of Management and Budget will develop an action plan by November describing how it will move the stalled enterprisewide software licensing program.<br>

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N.Y. center tests e-gov gateway

The Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany is helping different levels of government connect, a type of e-government it says has been overlooked as agencies focus on services to citizens.

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Computing will become service ‘you buy by the drink’

Two industry leaders speaking last month at the Commonwealth of Virginia IT Symposium 2003 acclaimed Web services as the next big thing, despite the juggernaut of hardware and networking innovation.

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Alabama mandates electronic tax filing

The state has launched an electronic tax filing service that is mandatory for 10 of its 44 taxes.<@SM>

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USPS offers free postmarking app for Word

Citizens and businesses now can use the Postal Service’s electronic postmark capability to digitally sign and apply date and time stamps to Microsoft Word documents.<br>

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GAO questions E-Authentication timetable

The General Services Administration’s timetable for building a gateway for the E-Authentication project is unrealistic, the General Accounting Office said.<br><@SM>

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OMB’s Evans will focus on leadership

Karen Evans, the new administrator of e-government and IT, yesterday stepped out of the large shadow of Mark Forman by promising to take a different tack than her predecessor.

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OPM launches redesigned Web site

Site's content is better organized and the search engine is easier to use, designer says.<br>

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Davis: Why the delay on E-Authentication?

Rep. Tom Davis is questioning whether the General Services Administration’s E-Authentication Quicksilver initiative will be completed by March. <br>

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FirstGov adds a Spanish language portal

FirstGov en Español, the government’s first and only Spanish-language information Web portal, launches next week.

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Treasury sets up digital tab for alcohol, tobacco dealers

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is setting up a system to accept certain forms with electronic signatures from cigarette and spirits dealers.<br>

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GSA to link e-procurement pieces

By spring, the General Services Administration will begin to connect some of the pieces of the Integrated Acquisition Environment e-government project.<br>

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Sole source: FedBizOpps portal sets standard for integrated government

What began life as a small electronic-procurement pilot at NASA has grown into an e-government giant.

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Procurement collection system launched

A General Services Administration-led team launched the Federal Procurement Data System repository, on time and on budget this week.<br>

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OPM personnel record database goes live

Four agencies are testing the new data repository and work force analysis tools the Office of Personnel Management launched this week. <br>