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In Virginia, April is the coolest month for electronic filing
Virginia Gov. Mark Warner yesterday proclaimed April “Electronic Filing Month” and urged Virginians who have not yet filed their taxes to use the Virginia Taxation Department’s free Internet filing service, iFile.
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E-gov leaders strain to meet deadlines
The Office of Management and Budget’s strategy report on its 24 highlighted e-government initiatives set the clock ticking for the agencies carrying out the projects.
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Quad Council salutes five top cutting-edge initiatives
The government has a reputation for lagging behind the private sector when it comes to technology, but at least five e-government projects are on IT’s cutting edge, a senior administration official said.
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More projects on the horizon
While figuring out the best architecture for the Office of Management and Budget’s 24 e-government initiatives, Debra Stouffer also is setting the table for the next set of projects.
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Bill would create an e-gov director
Although the movement on Capitol Hill to create a federal CIO has lost steam, lawmakers still looking for better oversight on how agencies spend IT money have proposed creating a new position in the Office of Management and Budget.
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In E-Town, government doors are always open
Rising above the other booths at FOSE 2002 last month was the Mayberryesque clock tower of E-Town, billed as the town hall of the future, where citizens will transact business and find answers to their questions.
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OMB sets e-gov architecture baseline
The Office of Management and Budget is creating a template for the leaders of its 24 highlighted e-government initiatives to follow.
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Faulty Florida system sent benefits to inmates, the deceased
Florida’s Agency for Workforce Innovation, which operates the state’s Unemployment Compensation System, sent benefit checks to prison inmates and dead people because of poor system controls, state auditors said.
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PKI Steering Committee chooses signature app
The General Services Administration’s Federal Public-key Infrastructure Steering Committee, in a significant move toward adopting a governmentwide PKI, is finalizing plans to purchase 150 licenses of an electronic-signature application.
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IT job fairgrounds are in cyberspace
The CIO Council and the Office of Personnel Management have set April 22 to April 26 for an IT job fair over the Web from which they expect to help agencies choose from thousands of potential employees.
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NTIS makes sci-tech resources searchable in one spot
The Commerce Department’s National Technical Information Service is developing an online catalog of the leading government Web resources on science and technology. The <a href="http://www.scitechresources.gov">www.scitechresources.gov</a> site has a database of about 1,000 sites selected by NTIS staff. <@SM>
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GSA auction site earns $17.7 million in first year
The General Services Administration’s online auction site, at <a href="http://www.gsaauctions.gov">www.gsaauctions.gov</a>, has generated about $17.7 million in more than 10,000 auctions of surplus federal property in its first year.
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States begin to adopt e-voting
States are making steady strides toward electronic voting systems. But don’t throw out your dimpled chad-o-meter just yet.
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OMB, CIOs support a central e-gov fund
The congressional appropriations process is holding back the administration’s 24 e-government projects, Mark Forman and David McClure yesterday told members of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy.
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Quad Council salutes cutting-edge initiatives
The government has a reputation for lagging behind the private sector when it comes to technology use, but at least five e-government projects are on IT’s cutting edge, a senior administration official said.
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E-gov projects likely to end up in a bell curve
Progress on the Office of Management and Budget’s 24 e-government projects likely will end up in a bell curve, according to Norman Lorentz, OMB's chief technology officer. A few projects will lead the way, most will come to fruition in the middle of OMB’s 18- to 24-month time frame, and a few will have to be adjusted or scrapped altogether.
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OPM will fund at least one e-gov plan on its own
The Office of Personnel Management is making an aggressive effort to find money for its five e-government initiatives approved by the Office of Management and Budget. In weekly meetings with Mark Forman, OMB’s associate director for IT and e-government, OPM is refining the goals set in the individual business cases submitted in December.
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OMB soon to outline e-gov project action items
A report exposing the real guts of the Office of Management and Budget’s 24 e-gov initiatives—outlining project specific goals, objectives and action items—is scheduled to be released by March 31, according to senior administration officials.
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Online posting of Lincoln papers completed
The Library of Congress this month put the final pieces of the Abraham Lincoln Papers online.
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OMB expands its e-gov team
The Office of Management and Budget has put the final pieces of the leadership puzzle in place for its 24 e-gov initiatives.
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