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OMB replaces two e-gov project managers
The Office of Management and Budget has replaced a pair of e-government project managers leading Quicksilver initiatives.
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INS launches an online case-tracking app
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has launched an application that lets people seeking services from the agency check the status of their cases online. <br>
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Trademark seekers shift away from paper, PTO says
The Patent and Trademark Office announced today that it began receiving more trademark applications online than on paper in September. PTO has been working in-house on its first online application filing system since 1992, trademark commissioner Anne Chasser said. “It has taken us 10 years to become an overnight success,” she said. <br>
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Hill wants to know how the budget impasse will affect OMB’s e-government projects
With agency finances in limbo until Congress passes a 2003 budget, lawmakers are gathering information on how a long-term continuing resolution will affect agency e-government projects and other initiatives under the President’s Management Agenda.
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Going Paperless
Military veterans who apply for home loan benefits are answering the doorbell to appraisers toting handheld wireless devices instead of clipboards.
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There’s more than one way to post your message
Speakers at yesterday’s FedWeb fall conference offered a number of tips for delivering online content to audiences who speak little or no English.<br>
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GSA hires vendor to revamp its portal
The General Services Administration yesterday announced a contract worth up to $930,000 with Bates Worldwide Inc., a New York advertising company, to overhaul <i>www.gsa.gov</i>.<br>
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TranStats hits the road
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ new TranStats database portal, launched last month at <i>www.transtats.bts.gov</i>, came along after the Office of Management and Budget had chosen its 25 e-government initiatives, but TranStats has Quicksilver-like goals. <br>
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D.C. wins prize for business portal
The District of Columbia government today received an award for its online business resource center, presented at the National Association of Chief Information Officers’ meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The site, at <i>www.brc.dc.gov</i>, won in NASCIO’s digital government category for putting tax and fee transactions online for 90,000 Washington, D.C., businesses. <br>
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White papers offer e-gov component architecture help
New reports from the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office and the CIO Council’s architecture working group offer guidance on planning, costs.<@SM>
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OPM making progress on two e-gov projects
Office awaits bids to upgrade the USAjobs.opm.gov site, puts finishing touches on agreements for payroll services.<br>
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What’s the effect of the budget impasse?
House and Senate appropriations committees want to know how well agencies can meet the President’s Management Agenda goals if they must operate under a long-term continuing resolution. Congress this week passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 22, and some observers believe the fiscal 2003 budget will not be settled until February or March.<br>
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Two administration sites keep feds informed
The White House and an interagency group have set up two Web sites to keep federal employees better informed. One site supplies White House information, the other is for people needing access to federal disability programs.<br>
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Energy’s e-gov plans advance with new <br>e-signature software
With the flourish of an electronic signature, Energy secretary Spencer Abraham yesterday took the wraps off the department’s action plan for e-government.
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Congress improves at managing e-mail
The Senate last month decided not to renew its contract with EchoMail Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., for e-mail filtering software. Instead, IT managers will depend on the Senatewide deployment of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to better manage the 88,000 e-mail messages the Senate receives each day.
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Iowa launches Web site for bids and proposals
Post it, and they will come. Iowa lawmakers decreed in April that state agencies must advertise all requests for bids and proposals on a page that went up this month on the state’s Web site, at eservices.iowa.gov/rfp. Vendors can find specific RFPs by typing in keywords.
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GSA releases E-Travel draft solicitation
After a two-month delay, the General Services Administration earlier this week released a draft request for proposals for a governmentwide online travel management system. GSA plans to roll out an online booking engine—the first iteration of the E-Travel project—by December.
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Feds testify about improved antiterror systems
State Department, FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service officials, among others, described improvements to government systems for border control and for tracking terrorists’ finances during a hearing today on the effectiveness of the USA Patriot Act.
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Treasury set to issue digital certificates with smart cards
The Treasury Department plans to issue digital-certificate-embedded smart cards to 7,000 Treasury employees across the country beginning next month, said Bernadette Curry, Treasury's PKI program manager.
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Regional officials embrace e-mail, study finds
Mayors and city council members across the country routinely use e-mail to communicate with constituents, in contrast to federal elected officials who are swamped with e-mail and often dismiss it, according to a new study.
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