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Governmentwide contracts program will remain intact
GSA official says he was making a long-term projection when he told conference participants the agency would merge GWACs with its schedules program.
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New command at tip of DoD cyber spear, Lt. Gen. Alexander says
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CTO Levin to Do VA's Tech Vision Thing
The Veterans Affairs Department has hired <a href=http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502820>Peter Levin</a>, a White House fellow in the Clinton administration, as its new chief technology officer in the office of the secretary and senior advisor to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, Press Secretary Katie Roberts told me.
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Ondra Not a candidate for VA Post
On Monday I <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/06/gulf_war_vet_edges_closer_to_t.php>suggested</a> that Dr. Stephen Ondra, an Army Gulf War vet who is a professor of neurological surgery at the <a href="http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/">Feinberg School of Medicine</a> at Northwestern University in Chicago, had the inside track for appointment as under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration.
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Productivity Boost
A new <a href="http://www.kellyservices.com/web/global/services/en/pages/kelly_global_workforce_index.html">survey</a> by Kelly Services reports that use of mobile communications technologies such as smartphones and laptops are driving positive changes in employee behavior and a shift in work-life balance.
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Inversion of Expectations
Rob Salkowitz <a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=697&doc_id=178469">writes</a> over at the Internet Evolution blog on how the long and established cultures at Lockheed Martin and the CIA have actually mitigated the generational issues that often come with adopting Web 2.0 technologies.
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House backs biometrics in DHS 2010 spending bill
The House endorsed a spending increase on DHS' largest biometrics program in the fiscal 2010 spending bill it has passed.
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