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OPM will seek proposals to enhance USAJobs
The Office of Personnel Management in early September will release a request for proposals for a commercial system to enhance its USAJobs.opm.gov portal.
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Card smarts
Over the past decade, about 60 federal agencies started making plans to issue smart cards to their employees. Most are still at the drawing board.
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Carriers add registered e-mail
Months after the Postal Service pulled the plug on its certified e-mail service, telecommunications companies are offering government users something similar.
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GSA awards AT&T Web hosting contract for FirstGov
The General Services Administration today awarded AT&T a four year, $7.6 million contract for Web hosting and security services for the Firstgov.gov portal.
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Vendor data gets user-friendly
When contracting officers or members of a source selection committee need to find out about a potential vendor’s quality of work on previous contracts, collecting the data often is a challenge. But the process is about to change. Three agencies are working with the General Services Administration and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to create a central past-performance records database for use governmentwide. NIH’s Diane Frasier says more than 100 agencies are expected to use a new system providing access to past-performance information.<@SM>
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OMB pushes agencies to share funds
The Office of Management and Budget is asking agency CIOs to give up control of their most valuable resource: money.
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OMB team lays out its e-gov agenda
The Office of Management and Budget’s e-government team met recently at the Washington offices of GCN and Washington Technology to discuss the administration’s e-gov progress.
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Agencies speculate on consolidating online travel apps
Will agencies' electronic-travel initiatives be left waiting at the gate?<@SM>
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Congress is at odds over e-gov funding request
President Bush’s fiscal 2003 request for a $45 million e-government fund will head to conference when Congress is back in session next month.
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Disaster portal delayed
Slow response by 15 agencies to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s requests for content for the disasterhelp.gov portal has delayed the rollout of the service for disaster victims and responders.
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Calif. gets funds from its nonfilers
Fourteen million Californians file their state tax returns voluntarily, but the ones who don’t file keep Cathy Cleek and her team busy. Cleek is director of the Franchise Tax Board’s nonfiler program.
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VBA links offices on virtual network
The Veterans Benefits Administration is linking regional offices to improve the customer service offered by its call centers.
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EPA looks to unify states with CDX
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Information Collection Office, which is managing the rollout and expansion of the agency's Central Data Exchange (CDX) portal, knows the Web is the route to take for the portal’s next step. Now, the agency is looking for the right technology to pave the way.
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Middleware anchors INS’ information architecture
The Immigration and Naturalization Service views middleware as the linchpin in its strategy to integrate the nation's border control systems.
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Administration releases draft standards for listing grant opportunities
The Office of Federal Financial Management today released proposed data standards for agencies submitting grant and funding opportunities to <i>FedBizOpps.gov</i>. The procurement portal is the mandatory site for agencies to post contracting opportunities.
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IRS tests database, sets free-filing deal
The IRS has begun testing the Customer Account Data Engine, the database management system that will replace the nearly 40-year-old Master File and Integrated Data Retrieval System.
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Internaut: Feds are citizens and e-gov users, too
The federal government is pouring a substantial amount of energy and dollars into e-government service to citizens. But it's not all for private citizens.
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Texas jump-starts public and private connectivity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Texas Health Department this week issued the first statewide alert over the Texas Health Alert Network, about the spreading West Nile virus. The HAN so far has provided 64 health departments with Internet connectivity, some of them for the first time.
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California governments move services online
Residents of Nevada County, Calif., and the cities of Davis and Bakersfield this summer began paying county taxes, finding housing regulations and applying for building permits online.
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Report finds congressional members doing a better job of managing e-mail
Members of Congress are doing a better job of filtering e-mail and using electronic means to communicate with constituents, according to a report released yesterday by the Congress Online Project, a joint research initiative of the Congressional Management Foundation and George Washington University.
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