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Value chain aids business cases
The Labor Department has found a strategy it hopes to use to satisfy two of the Office of Management and Budget’s more complicated requirements.
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Commerce: IT architecture will reflect bureau structure
An old saying in Washington likens the Commerce Department to Noah’s Ark because it has one delegation from each species.
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GAO will take a second look at OMB’s e-gov projects
Lawmakers’ interest in the Office of Management and Budget’s 25 e-government initiatives seems to be peaking. <br>
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Army delays launch of military personnel system
High failure rates during testing have forced the Army to push back the rollout of an interim military personnel system that it plans to use as a stepping stone to a DOD-wide system slated to come online in 2004.
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GSA replumbs its Web portal
The General Services Administration is reworking the back-end linkage and programming of all components on its <i>gsa.gov</i> portal. <br>
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CIO Council: Protect your architecture data
The CIO Council is reminding agency CIOs to guard their enterprise architecture information and applications as closely as their core systems.<br><@SM>
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NARA approves two methods for transferring records
Agencies transferring permanent records to the National Archives and Records Administration now can use digital tape or File Transfer Protocol.<br>
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IRS moves e-learning courses online
The IRS is moving its tax law and tax processing electronic training courses to be compatible with the Office of Personnel Management’s e-Training initiative.<br>
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Online student loan system is lagging, GAO says
Systems being developed to streamline processing of federal student aid and related data are in some cases nearly a year behind schedule, a just-published General Accounting Office study concludes.<br>
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SBA and DOD link databases
The Small Business Administration and the Defense Department last week took the first step toward completing the Business Partner Network for government contractors. <br>
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OMB orders merging of park reservation systems
The Office of Management and Budget has instructed the Interior and Agriculture departments and the Army Corps of Engineers to consolidate the country’s two major recreation reservation systems. <br>
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Geospatial One-Stop will have first trial in May
Proposals are due Jan. 22 from vendors that want to build the Geospatial One-Stop Portal, one of the 25 e-government initiatives.<br>
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GSA outlines realignment plan
The General Services Administration will take heed of at least two of a consultant’s recommendations to better align the efforts of the Federal Supply Service and the Federal Technology Service.<br>
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GAO report finds flaws in OMB e-gov initiatives
The Office of Management and Budget did not collect complete business case information before selecting its e-government initiatives, according to a General Accounting Office study.<br>
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Online booking system selected for e-gov travel initiative
The developer of the online booking system FedTrip has been selected to provide the booking system for the Bush administration's e-travel initiative.<br><@SM><@SM>
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Group forms to study tax-related XML standards
Tax officials from the U.S. and other countries have formed a technical committee to devise an international open standard for exchanging tax data via Extensible Markup Language.<br>
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Bush signs E-Gov bill
President Bush has signed the E-Government Act of 2002, HR 2458, into law during a White House ceremony. <br>
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Legislation may broaden OMB’s e-gov perspective, agency IT managers say
Agency CIOs and IT managers want the E-Government Act of 2002 to help the Office of Management and Budget see the e-government forest for the 25 Quicksilver trees.
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Online rule-making portal dovetails with E-Gov Act requirement
The launch of the online rule-making portal by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget Dec. 18 will jump-start one of the first provisions of the E-Government Act.
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Homeland Security will consolidate software licenses
The new Homeland Security Department will consolidate all its component agencies’ software licenses “for the greater good,” looking first at large contracts, Secret Service assistant director Steve Colo said today.<br>
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