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TSA takes novel e-gov approach

For its e-government projects, the Transportation Security Administration puts the government before electronic.

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OMB expects A-76 circular to push management agenda

Senior administration officials today touted the new guidance for agencies to compete federal jobs with the private sector as bold, appropriately decisive and reflective in a careful way.<br>

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OMB assesses next wave of e-gov projects

The Office of Management and Budget last month hired a contractor to help it evaluate prospective e-government consolidation efforts.

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Template tool helps agencies make their case, vendor says

OMB Exhibit 300, the capital asset plan and business case document that agencies must present to the Office of Management and Budget to win funding for their projects, has taken on heightened importance this budget season.

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D.C. Web site gets big makeover to ‘citizen-centric’

The District of Columbia’s revamped Web site has the same services as on its previous generation, but the packaging has changed considerably.

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HSD names manager, sets timetable

NEW ORLEANS—The Homeland Security Department named David Boyd as the new project manager for Project Safecom, one of the Office of Management and Budget’s 25 e-government initiatives, sources said.

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OMB: Business cases must relate to enterprise architectures for 2005

The Office of Management and Budget is raising the bar for business cases for fiscal 2005: Agencies must show strong links between their business cases and enterprise architectures for OMB to fund IT projects. <br>

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Boyd takes over Safecom Project

The Homeland Security Department named David Boyd as the new project manager for Project Safecom.<br>

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Study finds local governments have static Web presence

Most local governments have Web sites, but they are mostly passive brochure-ware with very little in the way of transactions.<br>

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Internaut: E-gov sites deliver the data

Cross-agency cooperation is a crucial component of every data sharing project, from Extensible Markup Language tagging to joint application use.

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Prince George’s County, Md., pumps up its Web site

Prince George’s County is using Rhythmyx content management software to post press releases and other information on the county’s Web site. <br>

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Michigan orders some taxes e-filed

Michigan is joining two nearby states in requiring corporations and professional tax preparers with large numbers of customers to file income tax returns electronically.

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OMB offers advice on attaining PMA nirvana

To help agencies make the grade—so to speak—on the President’s Management Agenda, the Office of Management and Budget soon will begin negotiating with them to set strategies for progress.

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Recruitment deal hits protest limbo

The administration’s Quicksilver e-government program has hit its first big hitch: a vendor protest that has put the Recruitment One-Stop project on hold.

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OMB details procedure for obtaining e-gov funding

Agencies looking to get a portion of the Office of Management and Budget’s e-government fund will need to submit a proposal that includes a description of the initiative, a justification for the funding and a spending plan.<br>

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Another View: Poll reveals the next e-government challenge

Americans want it all when it comes to electronic government: convenient service and protection for their personal information.

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E-gov proponents say the barriers remain the same

More than two years after government accelerated its pace down the e-government road, agencies face many of the same cultural, organizational and communication barriers. <br>

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Study finds investment in e-gov is still a government priority

Even in this time of tight budgets, government’s commitment to reaching citizens through e-government is strong, according to a new report by the General Services Administration’s Interagency Advisory Board. <br>

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Four agencies get e-gov rating boost on OMB management scorecard

The departments of Health and Human Services and State, the General Services Administration and the Agency for International Development took the biggest recent steps toward gaining green ratings for e-government on the President’s Management Agenda’s scorecard. <br>

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FirstGov wins $100,000 innovations award

After relaunching the FirstGov Web portal earlier this week, GSA yesterday won a $100,000 grant from the Institute for Government Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. <br>