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Amtrak shortfall puts e-gov fund off track?
Amtrak derailed the $5 million E-Government Fund.<@SM>In the fiscal 2004 Treasury, Transportation and independent agencies appropriations bill, lawmakers late last month slashed the Office of Management and Budget’s e-gov account to $1 million to help make up for a $1.5 billion shortfall for the train service.<@SM>
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OMB and GAO disagree over privacy compliance
The Office of Management and Budget and the General Accounting Office are butting heads over the ability of agencies to assure the protection of individual privacy rights in agency systems.<br>
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OPM hires integrator for governmentwide HR system
The Office of Personnel Management begins its final push to start collecting human resources and payroll data from every agency.<br>
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Bold but not brash
When Labor's Bureau of Economic Analysis gave its Web site a retooling, a chief concern was making sure users still trusted data that has the power to send bulls and bears raging on Wall Street. "Our look was formal, credible, educational and very classic."<br><@SM>—BEA Web manager Carol Kavanagh
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D.C. offices can now buy supplies online
The District of Columbia brought its $71.5 million e-procurement system online last month for 254 users who work for the chief technology officer and the city’s contract procurement office.
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Hey, it’s just business: As e-gov projects evolve, some agencies shift control from CIOs’ offices
As agencies recognize the importance of e-government and the obstacles to its success, some are trying a different approach.
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GSA kicks off governmentwide customer service program
GSA today launched the first iteration of the USA Services initiative, which will answer misdirected e-mail, postal mail and telephone calls.<br>
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Agencies reach for e-training interoperability and efficiency
An e-learning portal developed by the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service lets employees find and register for training with a few clicks.
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To ease asset tracking, DOD will use standard ID tags
Starting tomorrow, all Defense Department program managers must tag new equipment with a standard and universal identification code to track the items they buy.<@SM>
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Policies and Practices: Make or break for e-government
If you listen closely, you can hear the drum the Office of Management and Budget is beating for e-government. Over the next 11 months, it will grow louder and stronger.
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Md. county portal streamlines customer service
Montgomery County, Md., is more than halfway through consolidating about 40 government Web sites into one official portal. But as it inches closer to completion, the project illustrates how difficult it is to overcome territoriality among some agencies.
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Data Swappers
The Bureau of Land Management is setting up Extensible Markup Language data exchanges with oil and natural gas prospectors who drill on federal lands.
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Navy’s Carey gives policy priority
For the past three years, Rob Carey has managed change in the Navy. For most of that time, Carey, the service’s former e-business and smart-card team leader, spearheaded the Navy’s thrust to transform the way it conducted business electronically, which brought about a heavy reliance on smart-card technology for data authentication.
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House Appropriations slashes E-Gov Fund
The House Appropriations Committee yesterday cut the administration’s E-Government Fund by 80 percent from what Congress had allocated for fiscal 2003.<br>
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Passport call center expands services
The State Department has stretched a contract with AT&T Government Solutions to manage its National Passport Information Center for another five years.<br>
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OPM says it won’t reopen Recruitment One-Stop buy
The Office of Personnel Management will continue to work with Monster Government Solutions to revamp the USAJOBS Web site.<br><@SM>
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Tax payment site gets friendlier
The IRS has pumped up the taxpayer tools on an online tax payment site.
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OMB dishes out $2.2 million of e-gov fund
The Office of Management and Budget is doling out $2.2 million to support one old e-government initiative and six new ones.<br>
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Education says online classes are becoming more common
Take note: Most colleges offer online courses, a new study sponsored by the Education Department reports.<@SM>
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E-gov makes no gains in new PMA scores
At first glance, agency progress in meeting the e-government goals of the President’s Management Agenda seems to have hit a plateau. On the midyear PMA scorecard released last week, no agency improved its overall e-government status in the three months since the last evaluation.
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