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Top CIO unveils cloud computing storefront in push to reduce IT costs
Site will help agencies hand off IT operations and service to vendors in the coming months.
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Groups welcome Recovery board's mash-up system to uncover fraud
Citizen Web developers see potential good in oversight panel's move to contract with a team of computer analysts in fighting white-collar crime.
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IRS nearly resolves one security threat, receives incomplete on others
Encryption installed on most laptops, but vulnerabilities exist in the system used to manage income tax returns, the agency's inspector general finds.
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Antitrust concerns swirl around sale of Diebold Voting Machines
Wired: Threat Level
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Obscure database is key to U.S. educational funds for California
The Los Angeles Times
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The VA's Fort Monmouth Outpost
In 2011 Fort Monmouth, N.J., will be history, with folks from the Army Communications-Electronic Command (CECOM) either moved to Fort Belvoir, Va., or the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. But CECOM contracting skills will live on in the new Veterans Affairs Department Technology Acquisition Center.
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Top Tools for Collaboration
Computerworld <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137915/Forrester_Desktops_rule_smartphones_don_t">highlight</a>s a recent <a href="http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,55268,00.html#heading3">report</a> by Forester Research that examined how American workers make use of computers, smart phones and key productivity and collaboration tools at work.
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OPM Proposes Benefit Changes
The Office of Personnel Management on Monday released proposed regulations that would expand the definition of "family member" for purposes of determining leave and long-term care benefits. The regulations, published in the Federal Register, would <a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-22030.pdf">modify definition</a>s of "family member" and "immediate relative" for determining use of sick leave, funeral leave, voluntary leave transfer, voluntary leave bank and emergency leave transfer.
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Berry to elevate the role of chief technology officer at OPM
While the new CIO, likely to be a politically appointed position, will be part of senior management, a move that is rare in the federal government.
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