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The Marine, J.D. Salinger and Service

Like many of my generation (I turned 66 on Monday), I grew up with the works of J.D. Salinger, not only <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em>, but his short stories in <em>The New Yorker</em>, which I subscribed to for years, including when I was in the Marine Corps.

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On Patrol in the Snow

Jungle fatigues are not the best clothing for 26-plus inches of snow, but the Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Memorial seemed to weather the weather well on Sunday, in this picture taken by my pal Joe Mancinik, a Navy veteran attending The George Washington University, whom I mentor.

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Advice on Improving IT Workforce

The Obama administration's fiscal 2011 budget proposal laid out <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/02/2011_budget_includes_investment_in_it_workforce.php">several priorities for the federal IT workforce</a>, including hiring reform, boosting recruitment and retention, replacing retiring workers and implementing a governmentwide collaboration platform.

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Veterans Health Administration runs competition for health IT ideas

The Veterans Health Administration has launched a contest to see which employees and contractors can dream up the best ideas for improving its use of health IT.

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Data Mining: Government spending by the numbers

Predicting IT spending; the most vulnerable Web browsers; public satisfaction with federal Web sites on the rise.

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Organizations with large IT staffs are most apt to recruit via the Web

Social networking has yet to catch on as a hiring tool, but is likely to get more popular, a survey of CIOs finds.

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DISA telecommuters can work just fine even with more snow

Virtual private networks and distributed laptops support the majority of the agency's Washington metropolitan area workers.

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DISA's Star Trek Communicators

One of the most tantalizing lines buried in the <a href=http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2011/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PARTS/DISA_FY11.pdf>fiscal 2011 budget request for the Defense Information Systems Agency</a> is a $102.8 million single item for a Senior Leadership Enterprise communications system.

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Meshing of US and allied defense sensors gaining importance

Networking of sensors could help bring about reduction in nuclear stockpiles, says military's vice chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. James Cartwright