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Senate immigration bill creates two new visas to encourage new talent
The plan is designed to follow on the success of the Jobs Act in helping start-ups get capital.
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GSA to roll out mobile purchasing agreement as part of shared services efforts
Will a wide-scale strategy for buying smart phones help the government become more collaborative and efficient?
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No Defense-VA integrated electronic health record until 2017
Departments need to take time to 'get it right,' Shinseki says.
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GSA's picklegate
Want to know how concerned GSA has become about conference spending? Check the box lunches.
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First online immigration application now available
New ‘ELIS’ website lets visitors request extensions to stay in the country, a step toward digitizing the largely paper-based immigration process.
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Washington Post helps us keep track of White House visitors
The newspaper has created a searchable database of the White House's visitor logs.
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Pentagon-funded researchers refine 3-D printing
Defense shows interest in new manufacturing techniques that cut costs.
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A frontline dispatch from Spain, a country in crisis
Steve Kelman finds that Spain's economic worries are not obvious on the surface.
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Defense and VA tap vendor to save clinicians from multiple log-ons
In software test at Chicago hospital, Harris bests Microsoft.
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Navy computer game wants players’ bright ideas on energy use
Pentagon-funded crowdsourcing experiment will hit the Web on Tuesday.
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USASpending moves to big data cloud
Host combines cloud efficiencies and big data analysis.
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OMB asks for evidence-based budgeting
Agencies should base their fiscal year 2014 budget requests on evidence of programs' effectiveness, with an eye toward spending less, OMB says.
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Navy’s new network will cost half the previous estimates
Continuous competition after contract award will drive down costs further, official says.
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Wanted: Tools to help paratroopers during airdrops
Technology for retrieving supplies is lacking.
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Customs and border agency tries new twist on industry days
Seminar is designed to guide company investments in new technologies.
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Up front about drone ops
More transparency could defuse public criticism, officials say.
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Army hosts MOSES open-source virtual world
The focus of many federal virtual world activities has moved to the U.S. Army's "MOSES" experimental open source environment
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Energy offers online training to employees in 3D virtual buildings
The Energy Department is offering multiple training courses online in 3D virtual worlds in its National Training and Education Resource online platform.
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Fun, competition inspire better service and happier employees
Could the same principles that apply to gaming help increase workforce productivity and employee engagement?
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