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FCW Download and Table of Contents
Published October 1, 2007
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Procurement: Which method to use?
By David Perera
It is a time of change for governmentwide acquisition contracts. What will that mean for how agencies buy goods and services?
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FAQs for small businesses
By David Perera
Frequently asked questions that small businesses should askif they want to enter the government market
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FAQs for agencies
By David Perera
Frequently asked questions that agencies need to ask as theydeal with small-business requirements
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Buyer's Guide 2.0
For years, Federal Computer Week has put together buyers' guides. These guides contain information about how to buy the goods and services agencies use and which contracts carry specific goods and services. This year, we are trying something different. Rather than publish all types of charts and graphs, we are placing that data online. That information, available by visiting www.fcw.com/ specials/buyersguide, contains specific data on contracts, including the vendors on a wide variety of contracts and the products and services they provide. In print, we have combined information about governmentwide acquisition contracts and small-business requirements. We have a…
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Tickets to travel
By Wade-Hahn Chan
How border states, with the blessing of the Homeland SecurityDepartment, are setting their own card standards for identifying travelers at border crossings
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Talking across the fence
By Mark Tarallo
IT industry groups have complex relationships with the federal agencies and lawmakers they often collaborate with
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NEWS
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Buzz of the Week | Embracing Web 2.0
The State Department's entry into the blogosphere last week intrigued us. It was unusual, especially for a government agency whose history dates to 1789.
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The Buzz contenders
#2: Budget fatigue sets inPresident Bush woke up in a realistic frame of mind last week and said he wanted Congress to pass a continuing resolution — with no strings attached — to keep the government operating at current funding levels past Oct. 1. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) reacted to the administration's instruction as if it were a provocation to fight. "This is the time when we ought to be sitting down…
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DOD relents and names a CMO
By Sebastian Sprenger
Many agree that a chief management officer is needed but some question the particulars
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Circuit
By FCW Staff
Welcome to the blogosphere; In case they didn't hear
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COMMENT
MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
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PCs come full circle
By Larry Stevens
Virtual desktop software is the latest spin on server-based PC computing
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Tech briefs
DHS readies TWIC rollout Agencies responsible for the Homeland Security Department's Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) expect to begin biometric enrollment for the permits by October, after the Sept. 18 release of technical specifications for the identity cards. The program to provide biometric credentials to workers at ports and other transport hubs has experienced multiple delays and cost overruns in the past four years, partly because of unsettled questions about biometric technologies. Paul Schneider, DHS' undersecretary for…
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PROCUREMENT
POLICY
FLIPSIDE
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A few minutes with... Kevin Carroll
By Sebastian Sprenger
Kevin Carroll retired last week as the Army’s program executive officer for enterprise information systems after eight years at the helm of the service’s top information technology shop. In an interview with Federal Computer Week, Carroll reflected on his time in the Army.
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