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A Combat Robo Doc
Navy field corpsmen who serve with Marine units probably are the best on-the-scene trauma care specialists in the world, but there's only so much one corpsman can do on the battlefield or during a medevac.
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Online Tools for Open Season
The annual open season for selecting and/or changing your federal benefits ends Dec. 14. Federal employees who have put off investigating other health plan choices may want to consider some online tools to help make an informed decision before the deadline.
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CIOs Optimistic on IT Hiring
A new survey by Robert Half Technology suggests that government competition with the private sector for IT talent could show a slight increase in 2010. According to the first quarter of the IT Hiring Index and Skills report, 7 percent of technology executives at U.S. companies anticipate adding IT staff in the first quarter of 2010, while 4 percent plan workforce reductions. Eighty-nine percent of CIOs said they plan to maintain current personnel levels.
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The news of 2009: From buzz to bust
Some stories christened by the Buzz of Week in 2009 have proven less buzz-worthy than others.
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VA launches massive contract to buy IT equipment and services
The Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology program likely will spend billions of dollars to upgrade the department's technology infrastructure.
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Mashups of stimulus spending data leads to two fraud investigations
Recovery board's application analyzes immense data sets on recipients of stimulus funds to filter out communities, programs and contractors that could indicate wrongdoing.
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This is going to change everything
Better stop thinking of enterprise architecture as mind-numbing techno-babble. Done right, EA has the potential to make sense out of the miasma of agency data and convoluted services across governments, changing how you do your job -- and delivering spot-on services to the public.
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Army Modernizes V-Mail
The letter is routed via the Internet to one of 10 locations in Afghanistan where special equipment will automatically print, fold, address, stuff the message into an envelope and then seal it. The envelopes are then placed into the regular intra-theater mail delivery system.
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Obama Nixes Locality Pay in 2010
Alyssa Rosenberg <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44149&dcn=todaysnews">writes</a> at <em>Government Executive</em> that President Obama is not only <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/12/obama_limits_2010_pay_raise_to_2_percent.php?oref=latest_posts">limiting the 2010 pay raise for federal employees to 2 percent</a>, he also plans to freeze locality pay rates at 2009 levels. The move makes Obama the first president in history to freeze locality pay rates.
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