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Government agencies to spend $15 billion on health IT by 2014
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Honoring Marine Maj. Corky Ram
DURHAM, N.C. -- I'm at Duke University this Friday for dedication of a <a href=http://www.dukealumni.com/olc/pub/DUKE/general/general_43.html_>memorial</a> to the Duke graduates who lost their lives on active duty since World War II, including the best company commander I ever had the privilege to serve, Maj. Cornelius "Corky" Ram.
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Navy grapples with 'relentless pace' of technology change
Wennergren, Carey outline the Navy's progress toward implementing various information technology policies and systems that will shape the force’s interoperability and improve capabilities in defending against cyber threats.
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Shaping the Federal Workforce
The Office of Personnel Management in coordination with the Harvard Kennedy School and the Maryland School of Public Policy will hold a roundtable meeting on Oct. 28 to discuss the future of the federal workforce, <em>The Washington Post</em> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204539_2.html">reports</a>. The event, which will be off-the-record and closed to the press, will include administration leaders, unions, congress and members of the private and nonprofit sector. Participants in the meeting plan to tackle issues including: the vision for the federal workforce in five to 10 years, filling mission-critical jobs, transforming the broken federal recruiting and hiring process, and reforming the federal pay system.
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Senate Approves Federal Retirement Changes
Legislation that includes several key retirement provisions for federal employees is heading to the president's desk. The Senate on Thursday approved the final version of the fiscal 2010 Defense Authorization bill (<a href="http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.02647:">H.R. 2647</a>), which includes a provision that would allow employees in the Federal Employees Retirement System to credit their unused, accumulated sick leave toward retirement. The bill also would allow CSRS workers to shift to part-time status at the end of their careers without reducing their final annuities, and would enable FERS employees who decide to return to civil service from the private sector the ability to recoup their full retirement annuity without losing credit for previous years of federal service.
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Deja Vista: That's the impression that we got about Windows 7
With the release of Windows 7 yesterday, GCN Lab Director John Breeden responds to reader comments about his review of Microsoft's next-generation operating system.
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Milcom speakers dwell on communications and collaboration
Integrating communications networks and defense systems, which lie at the heart of convergence, is tough but necessary.
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Census Bureau meets deadline to build address file for 2010 Census
Handheld computers performed well in checking and adding addresses used to mail census forms to the nation's 140 million households.
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