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Leslie Hurley: Taming NMCI users' storage needs
2010 Rising Star award winner Leslie Hurley oversaw a project that guarantees long-term storage needs for Navy Marine Corps Intranet users.
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EPA posts toxic data early to encourage crowdsourcing
Officials said they published the reports so communities, public interest groups and facilities can identify errors, and use the information to make decisions.
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Industry, FCC coming close to agreement on net-neutrality
The meetings are part of talks aimed at finding a compromise on Internet regulation in lieu of the FCC's proposal.
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Panel Passes 1.4 Percent Pay Raise
A Senate panel on Thursday approved a bill granting civilian federal employees a 2011 pay raise of 1.4 percent.
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IT Job Search Gets Personal
Leading IT jobs website Dice has launched a new social networking site that connects IT job seekers with tech recruiters. The <a href="http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/dice_talent_network">Dice Talent Network</a> combines social networking tools with an online job board where employers and IT job professionals can connect directly. For example, employers can communicate via chat or instant message or post job announcements, and tech pros can set up complete social networking profiles and follow and target the companies they want to work for.
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More on OPM's Job Registry
In following up to Thursday's <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/07/nixing_federal_job_registers.php?oref=latest_posts">post</a>, <em>Federal Times</em> <a href="http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100729/PERSONNEL02/7290301/1001">reports</a> that Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry has no intention of cancelling the agency's centralized hiring registry program. Berry's comments come one day after an OPM official said that in the seven months since OPM launched its hiring register program -- part of which focuses on IT hiring -- agencies have only hired 71 of about 106,000 qualified job candidates from the registers.
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Industry hopes fed computers go dark on Power IT Down Day
Given that the federal government accounts for around 1.5 percent of the total U.S. annual energy consumption, and is the largest single user, just a little savings could add up to a lot of green.
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Don't expect a miracle from cybersecurity strategy, DHS says
An official with the Homeland Security Department's National Protection and Programs Directorate says the government doesn't need a new cybersecurity strategy.
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U.S. understanding of cyber war still immature, says former NSA director
Retired General Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and NSA, said today at the Black Hat Briefings that the U.S. lacks an effective military and political doctrine for conducting and defending itself against cyber war.
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DHS struggles to define its cybersecurity mission
Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute has asked the security community to help define the cybersecurity mission for the Department of Homeland Security.
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IT Stimulus Yields Foreign Interest
In the latest case of foreigners with dollar signs in their eyes coming to America, a Paris-based IT company seeking to enter the U.S. health IT market has bought Pulse Systems, a maker of electronic health records based in Wichita, Kansas.
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