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Contractors Wag Defense Watchdog
Want some outrage today? Take out your pay stub, look at the gaping hole the Internal Revenue Service has made in your income and then read this Government Accountability Office <a href=http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10163t.pdf>testimony</a>. It details how contractors have managed to defang the Defense Contract Audit Agency, the outfit that's supposed to protect the public purse from looters called federal contractors.
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No COLA Increase in 2010
Federal retirees will receive no cost-of-living adjustment in their pension checks in 2010, the government announced Thursday.
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Telework Best Practices
Telework Exchange conducted a <a href="http://www.teleworkexchange.com/establishedprogram/A%20View%20from%20the%20Top%20Presentation_FINAL.pdf">Webinar</a> on Wednesday that looked at some telework best practices at federal agencies. Representatives from the Patent and Trademark Office, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Virginia state government and Cisco each provided advice on the keys to a successful telework program, including how to measure its effectiveness
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DHS proposes standards for private sector disaster preparation
Industry fears the voluntary standards are too rigid and eventually could be made mandatory for companies looking to do business with the government.
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Critics fault Recovery Board's first posting of stimulus data
While praising the effort, critics say it might be difficult for the public to find details on recipients, where job opportunities are and the progress of the economic program.
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GSA debuts service to shrink federal Web addresses
Go.USA.Gov application renames links to fit into brief Twitter or smart phone messages.
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Web-based health insurance portals get Senate committee nod
Federal Computer Week
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VMware virtualization infrastructure provides a greener IT environment.
Rely on VMware virtualization to reduce costs, increase IT efficiency and go green.
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The Information Dominance Corps
Navy meteorologists and oceanographers might not consider themselves cyber warriors, but they are going to be lumped into a new Navy Information Dominance Corps established by Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, on Oct. 6.
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Recruiting 11,000 IT Workers
The Partnership for Public Service is launching a new program designed to recruit, hire and retain entry-level information technology workers in the federal government. The program, called FedRecruit: IT Pilot Program, is designed to help agencies meet the need to fill what the <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/09/it_hiring_to_surge_by_2012.php">Partnership estimates will be about 11,000 technology job openings</a> during the next three years.
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