Education almost ready on legit-college list
The Education Department within weeks will seek proposals for building a database of accredited colleges.
Will the DHS financial system emerge, too?
Teams of contractors vying to develop the Homeland Security Department's integrated financial system, dubbed Emerge2, face a risky task.
Accenture contract in Bermuda triangle
The Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar contract with Accenture LLP of Reston, Va., to integrate the U.S. Visit virtual border system overcame a legislative hurdle last week.
Fattened spending plan would boost CIO's role
The House Appropriations Committee has cleared a $32 billion Homeland Security Department spending bill that conveys new line item budget authority and a stronger role for the department's CIO.
DHS takes on human resources
The Homeland Security Department is considering proposals from five companies it invited to compete for an unadvertised, $175 million human resources project.
Significa
It's said that a cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing'but everyone knows the value of a gas station with low prices. That's why the Energy Department has published links to dozens of local, nongovernment gas price monitoring sites at <a href= "http://www.fueleconomy.gov">www.fueleconomy.gov</a>.
DeLauro amendment would imperil other DHS contractors
An amendment to the Homeland Security appropriations act for 2005 contract for the U.S. Visit program could jeopardize other companies' DHS contracts.
Data sharing starts on the Web
Bill Spalding, CIO of the interagency Terrorist Threat Integration Center, has supervised the creation of an information architecture for the intelligence community's main nerve center for homeland security intelligence gathered overseas.
Rules panel splits decision on Accenture's DHS contracts
The House Rules Committee has blocked an effort to cancel Accenture LLP's multibillion-dollar U.S. Visit contract.
Solons: Attaboy, Ridge, on U.S. Visit pact
Two influential members of Congress have praised the Homeland Security Department's decision to award the U.S. Visit contract to Accenture Ltd.
Showdown looms on U.S. Visit pact
The House Rules Committee today likely will make a key procedural decision on the fiscal 2005 Homeland Security Department appropriations bill that could determine the fate of Accenture Ltd.'s multibillion-dollar U.S. Visit contract.<br>
House panel votes to block Accenture's U.S. Visit pact
A House committee voted today to prevent Accenture Ltd. from holding the prime contract for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visit system because it is a tax exile.
Contract awarded, work on U.S. Visit begins
Developers of a federal system to track foreign visitors in and out of the United States have a lot of work ahead of them, but the project has taken a major step forward.
Data use vs. privacy
Federal officials are beginning to feel unexpected ripple effects from the data mining technology used in many government programs.Agency officials and lawmakers say that existing privacy laws may not be up to the task of protecting personal privacy from powerful analytical tools that probe personal information.
Significa
Some federal information on the Web sheds a flickering light on past events that were at various times horrific, arduous, mundane, happy or triumphant. See Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, which contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
Emerge2 program to seek bids soon
The program is aimed at overhauling the Homeland Security Department's back-office systems.
DHS launches technology grant program
The Homeland Security Department today announced a one-month window for state agencies to seek their share of $9 million in grants for technology projects.
Auditors say DHS needs systems plan, stronger CIO
The Homeland Security Department's tardy progress on IT planning is jeopardizing billions of dollars of systems investment, the General Accounting Office said today.<br>
NASA's ERP project goes awry, GAO tells panel
NASA has bungled its $982.7 million enterprise resource planning system project in a way that caused the agency to lose track of $2 billion in its Treasury Department account and forced it to adjust its books, witnesses told a House committee last week.
Obsolete algorithm tangles terrorist/criminal watch lists
Advanced name-matching software now used for some agencies' terrorist and criminal watch lists can handle linguistic differences and Arabic, Chinese, Russian and other non-Roman alphabets.
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