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Financial managers get own metrics site
The Chief Financial Officers Council recently launched a site for measuring project management goals against a series of standard financial indicators.
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GAO gives Uncle Sam thumbs-up on e-gov
Agencies are making progress on projects mandated by the E-Government Act, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
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PTO taps Texan for CIO post
The Patent and Trademark Office has named David Freeland to fill its vacant CIO post.
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States continue to join EPA Exchange Network
States are buying in to the Environmental Information Exchange Network, with six adding nodes in the past six weeks.
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GAO: Homeland Security lacks big picture on IT
DHS tells the audit agency it will establish goals, performance measures and timelines for eight priority IT areas.
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PostNewsweek pubs get national reporting awards
Government Computer News and Washington Technology have received business journalism awards for their joint investigative reports on federal IT workers' use of diploma mill degrees.
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By the numbers
With 10 days until tax day, here are a few cyberstats (as of mid-March) about how the filing season's been going so far for the IRS.<ul><li>43 million plus: tax returns filed electronically, up more than 11 percent over last year</li><li>10 million: people who prepared and filed returns from their home computers, up 23 percent</li>
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Treasury lawyer to take FinCEN helm
The Treasury Department has tapped William J. Fox, acting deputy counsel, to become the next director of its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.<br>
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Agencies will use common metrics to track finances
By June, the Chief Financial Officers Council expects agencies to begin using new governmentwide performance indicators to report the status of their finances.
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CFO Council to roll out governmentwide performance metrics next month
The Chief Financial Officers Council has settled on eight measures that agencies can use as leading performance indicators and plans to issue them by the end of May, Office of Management and Budget controller Linda Springer said today.
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GAO takes aim at financial, tax and battlefield-intelligence systems
In a flurry of activity yesterday, the General Accounting Office identified work that needs to be done to ensure the government's financial, tax-processing and battlefield-intelligence systems meet administration goals.
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Defense veteran joins Lockheed Martin's naval team
The U.S. Joint Forces Command's recently retired deputy commander, Martin J. Mayer, has taken on a new C4I job at Lockheed Martin Corp.
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GAO lauds financial improvements but urges DOD to do more
Although the Defense Department has improved its ability to find and fix accounting errors, it still must modernize its systems and settle on consistent performance metrics, the General Accounting Office concludes.
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GSA will develop new strategy for Advantage site
At the behest of the General Accounting Office, the General Services Administration will make the business case for its online schedule buying system. <br>
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Uncle Sam issues data-sharing standards for medical info
The government has issued governmentwide standards for coding and sharing medical records. <br>
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Dunnington replaces Holcomb as NASA CIO
NASA has tapped its deputy systems chief, Patricia L. Dunnington, to take over as chief information officer.<br>
Digital Government
Ready or not
'We have to get it right in a real-time environment.'That's the charge'as described by Homeland Security Department CIO Steve Cooper'facing the IT chiefs of the 22 agencies that have been thrown together under the new department.
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Our Story
Homegrown. It's a word that describes many of the applications that powered the government's first systems and still fits many of the new e-government apps crafted today. But it's also a word that describes this publication.
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Defense IT execs are honored by Women in Technology
The Army's Miriam F. Browning and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's Joan R. Vallancewhitacre received top government honors last week for their contributions to computing from the Women in Technology organization.
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