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Those Who Serve
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, and it's fitting to pause and honor those who have answered the nation's call for service. Those who serve include not only the men and women in uniform, but State Department folks such as my friend of nearly 30 years Abigail Friedman, a foreign service officer who traded in her diplomat threads for Army fatigues this summer.
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Fitter Feds
As the debate over health care continues, one top technology company <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28728.wss">announced</a> last week that it will begin providing employees with 100 percent primary health care coverage and a special wellness rebate. Beginning in 2010, IBM will become one of the first U.S. companies to cover primary care at 100 percent. The company also announced a new wellness incentive that provides a $150 healthy living rebate to all full-time employees who make lifestyle changes to improve their health and build energy.
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Beefing Up Cybersecurity Training
A new <a href="http://webobjects.cdw.com/webobjects/media/pdf/Newsroom/2009-CDWG-Federal-Cybersecurity-Report-1109.pdf">report</a> by CDW-G calls for more training of federal employees as a means to confront and combat cybersecurity threats. The report, which is based on a survey of 150 federal civilian and 150 Defense Department information technology professionals, found that more than half of all federal agencies experience a cybersecurity incident at least weekly, with the number and severity of these incidents staying the same or increasing over the past year.
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Networx transition woes: Enterprise becomes an also-ran
This is part 3 of our look at the Networx transition that explores how and why Networx Universal has become the favored contract of the two vehicles.
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Federal data breach notification standard must pre-empt state laws
Public and private entities currently juggle laws from 47 states, two cities and one U.S. territory.
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