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Tech Touted in Clearance Reform
The Office of Personnel Management has increased the efficiency in which the government completes security clearances, completing 90 percent of background investigations in an average of 37 days, the agency's director told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs federal workforce subcommittee on Tuesday. In 2005, the average time needed to obtain a Top Secret security clearance was in excess of one year, Berry said, while today it is only 72 days.
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Navy could run two years late on business systems upgrade, GAO finds
Poor management controls are slowing the implementation of the Navy's Enterprise Resource Planning project and driving up costs, according to GAO.
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IT Leadership Awards
Consulting firm (ISC)2 on Tuesday announced the final nominees for its sixth annual Government Information Security Leadership Awards. The awards honor individuals who have significantly enhanced the information security workforce by demonstrating a leadership role in any information security workforce improvement initiative, program or project on either a government-wide or agency-specific basis. The program recognizes IT workers from each of the following categories:
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Health IT panel approves intermediaries for data
Health and Human Services Department's Health IT Standards Committee has adopted a framework for the flow of patient data to be collected and aggregated to measure the quality of care.
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Google readies government cloud offering
Google's government cloud offering will offer Google Apps in a dedicated environment within undisclosed Google facilities in the United States.
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Get a Life!: Be thankful the fiscal year ends in September
The race to award contracts and close the books as the fiscal year winds down is a government tradition -- but the September 30 date is fairly recent.
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E-Verify prepared for surge in worker eligibility queries
E-Verify successfully processes an increase in requests to verify employees working at companies that won government contracts after Sept. 8.
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Bill would let some growing companies keep small business contracts
Federal Computer Week
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The FOUO Debate
Some readers took exception to my posting last week of a high-level <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/09/us_cyber_command_-_the_wiring_diagram.php>wiring diagram for the U.S. Cyber Command</a>, which was labeled "For Official Use Only," a.k.a. FOUO.
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Managing Your Online Reputation
Nearly half of U.S. human resources professionals are using social networks to research job candidates at least occasionally, according to a new <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007268">survey</a> by Harris Interactive and CareerBuilder.com. The survey found that HR professionals were most likely to use search engines such as Yahoo! or Google to research candidates online (41 percent), followed by Facebook (29 percent) and LinkedIn (26 percent).
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