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Prototype gateway will test authentication needs
By this time next year, Stephen Timchak expects to have rolled out a system to confirm the identity of authorized users of e-government systems.
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GSA mulls charging a fee to access some FedBizOpps features
The General Services Administration is considering charging vendors a fee to use the advanced features of the FedBizOpps Web portal, the governmentwide repository of contract opportunities worth more than $25,000.
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OMB names Microsoft and IBM tools as e-gov platforms
HERSHEY, Pa.—Slowly, a plan is emerging for taking the administration’s 24 Quicksilver projects from ideas on paper to interactive online services.
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Study lists success factors for cross-jurisdictional e-gov projects
The Industry Advisory Council and the General Services Administration today released a report outlining the characteristics of successful federal, state and local e-government projects. The study researched 23 initiatives and found five successful projects that included a federal agency working with state and/or local agencies.
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Justice backs South Dakota’s fight against Internet child crimes
South Dakota’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit has received a $1 million Justice Department grant to help support local authorities’ investigations.
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USDA speeds toward e-filing
More by congressional prodding than by choice, the Agriculture Department finds itself among the front-runners of agencies working to meet the requirements of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act.
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OMB prepares a guide for agencies’ Web content and design
Federal Web sites could soon have a similar look. The Office of Management and Budget is writing its recommendations for standards for site content management.
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State creates E-Diplomacy Office to coordinate user needs with IT
Pinstripe-wearing diplomats will work side-by-side with khaki-clad techies in the State Department’s E-Diplomacy Office.
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OMB releases Part 2 of federal architecture model
The Office of Management and Budget will release the second section of the federal enterprise architectural model in the next two months. Bob Haycock, OMB’s chief architect, said the performance reference model will include outcomes and metrics agencies will use to measure performance against business practices.
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Most e-gov initiatives are ready to take off
Mark Forman and his colleagues at the Office of Management and Budget expect to be busy over the next four months with the launch of up to 21 first or second iterations of the 24 Quicksilver e-government initiatives.
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Model programs
With passage of the Clinger-Cohen Act in 1996, agencies were faced with the need to better manage their enterprise architectures—the act mandated an overall blueprint for their IT systems.
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U.S. Marshals and VA finish testing automated travel systems
The Marshals Service and the Veterans Affairs Department are moving ahead with their own automated travel systems despite little word from the Office of Management and Budget or the General Services Administration about which e-travel system will be used for the governmentwide e-Travel initiative.
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IRS: Tax forms will talk
A new design tool for fillable forms will make the IRS’ 50 top online tax schedules usable by visually impaired persons in the next tax season. Adobe Systems Inc. today announced that the IRS has been testing Adobe PDF Forms Access Agent, a $99 developer tool, to provide audible instructions for filling out each field of a form. The IRS keeps several hundred forms and publications online in Adobe’s Portable Document Format.
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OMB outlines 15 more joint business cases
The Office of Management and Budget this week listed 15 additional IT projects for which agencies will submit joint business cases for the fiscal 2004 budget, in addition to the 24 e-government initiatives and presidential projects such as the Faith-Based and Community Initiative and USA Freedom Corps.
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The lowdown on the help desk
<b>What is it?</b> Help desk software accepts problem reports from users and assists IT staff in assigning tasks, tracking progress, documenting work and noticing trends.
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Help desk software is becoming proactive. Though designed to respond to requests for assistance, the programs also can lower the cost of running your network, simplify change and prevent problems.
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Interior moves forward with Geospatial One-Stop
The team working on Geospatial One-Stop intends to push ahead with development of the spatial data portal despite agencies’ slow cooperation with the initiative, the project’s chief says.
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OMB revises geospatial-systems circular
The Office of Management and Budget last week released a revised OMB Circular A-16 that sets new guidelines for agencies that collect spatial data.<@SM>
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GSA reviews authentication needs of e-gov projects
The General Services Administration has reviewed security needs for five of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects and will finish reviews for the other 18 within the next 12 to 14 months.
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AT&T will host FirstGov
The General Services Administration is setting the Web foundation for many of the Office of Management and Budget’s 24 e-government initiatives through the <a href="http://www.FirstGov.gov">FirstGov</a> portal.
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