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Leaner defense budget aims for realistic reform
The Defense Department's $708 billion fiscal 2011 budget request closely adheres to priorities set forth in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review.
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Oops, Missed the VA Approps Bill
As more than one kind reader pointed out, <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2010/02/vas_66_billion_man.php?oref=latest_posts>I erred on Monday when I said Congress has yet to pass the 2010 VA Appropriations Bill.
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The Budget's Personnel Priorities
The fiscal 2011 budget proposal unveiled by the White House on Monday identifies several high-priority goals for the Office of Personnel Management over the next two years.
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Agencies try to exploit 'free' data model
Blogger Brian Robinson was wondering how the business models would emerge to justify Data.gov and similar government Web sites. Here's one out of Massachusetts: Get the free market to do government's job for it.
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Wait another year for patient safety data, GAO says
Information required under the Patient Safety Act likely won't be available until February 2011, according to a new report.
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Defense, VA ask for $2.8 billion to fund health technology in 2011
Funding matches fiscal 2010 spending levels, but reflects the importance of IT in providing medical care to nearly 16 million soldiers, veterans and family members.
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VA's $6.6 Billion Man
President Obama has proposed a $3.3 billion information technology budget for the Veterans Affairs Department in fiscal 2011, the same as the record VA IT budget in fiscal 2010. This must make Roger Baker, the department's chief information officer, the most sought after <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/05/the_good_news_and_bad_news.php>canasta partner</a> in all of Washington.
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2011 Budget Invests in IT Workforce
The federal The Chief Information Officers Council plans to conduct a governmentwide IT workforce survey in 2010 to help enable agency managers to identify future workforce needs, according to the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/topics.pdf">budget documents</a> released on Monday.
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Report finds the most worrisome cyber threats are China -- and the U.S.
Some IT and security executives see foreign governments as a threat to their critical infrastructure.
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Obama's $3.8 trillion budget slashes 120 programs
Terminating or reducing funding for those programs would save more than $20 billion, White House officials say.
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