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GovBenefits.gov celebrates first year

Portal includes 417 programs, offering citizens information about benefits and helping to determine eligibility

Digital Government

FDA plans food-tracking system

Goal is to trace source of criminally contaminated food, foodborne illnesses

People

USDA puts finishing touches on IT overhaul

The Agriculture Department has completed the foundation of its Common Computing Environment

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Knowledge hoarding

Agencies find incentives can encourage the reluctant to share what they know

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CIA, FBI wrangle over threat center

Schism illustrates stiff cultural difficulties with information-sharing efforts

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Performance budgeting still a work in progress

OMB is preparing to release another tool designed to help agencies measure the performance of IT programs

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Justice bringing forms online

Department is implementing a system to bring hundreds of legal and standard forms online

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DHS e-mail system ready to roll

But Homeland CTO says integrating the systems of 22 agencies has presented a challenge

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SBA getting new loan management system

Loan monitoring system consolidates past systems and includes a new risk-assessment rating tool

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Tacit knowledge tough to manage

Capturing know-how and individual experience presents a challenge for knowledge management

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Insider information

CIOs with years of federal experience learn to work the system from within

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CDC center aids SARS battle

The CDC recently activated a high-tech command center to track and respond to the outbreak of a potentially deadly respiratory virus

Digital Government

FBI boosting virtual case database

Trilogy network deployed in 591 sites

Digital Government

FBI tech money safe

The FBI will not cut other IT initiatives to fund Trilogy, the FBI director told lawmakers

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Critics dog student tracking system

Latest glitch: Forms printing at wrong schools

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Student tracking system debated

Immigration official says the system works and vows to help smooth out the kinks

Digital Government

FBI's Trilogy network completed

The FBI has completed the network for the long-awaited Trilogy modernization project

People

OMB's rating tool examined

Program rating tool should be reviewed in groups based on common missions, expert says

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Nominee outlines management style

OMB deputy director nominee Clay Johnson says he will bring a focus on accountability

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Justice budgets for terrorism

Department's fiscal 2004 budget focuses on improving information sharing and infrastructures