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GPO names acting management chief
Herb Jackson has been named the Government Printing Office's acting chief management officer. He replaces Janet Sansone, who is retiring.
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Agency aims to play matchmaker with new hiring tool
The national intelligence office is developing a site that would pair job applicants with suitable federal vacancies.
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Technology designed to speed hiring often hinders the process, survey shows
HR specialists say incompatible systems and limited online tools make it difficult to match qualified candidates with jobs.
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Soundbytes: ATC Modernization, DISA and Long Commutes
A weekly roundup of comments from Nextgov.com. All comments are presented in their original, unedited form.
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CBP failed to follow basic security practices to protect financial systems
Administrators didn't review employees' rights to access files, enforce stringent password requirements, or block users from logging on after several failed attempts.
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Finding Jobs for Space Shuttle Workers
Nextgov reported on Wednesday that NASA is launching a program to help those highly skilled - and highly paid - employees working on the soon-to-be-shuttered space shuttle program in Florida's "space coast" to find jobs, especially IT jobs. They may want to look just a bit of a ways south in Fort Pierce, Fla.
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46 Groups Recommend Blue Button
As the Obama administration showers doctors and hospitals with stimulus money, it should tell the takers to embed an icon on their subsidized e-health records that allows patients to download their records, according to a new paper backed by 46 consumer, provider, corporate, insurance and privacy groups.
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DARPA Tries to Create the Cyborg
Ahh, computers keep getting faster and smarter, but thank goodness they still don't match up to the power of the human brain -- or I'd be out of work.
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VA, Markle push blue buttons to download personal health data
The Veterans Affairs Department and the Markle Foundation are promoting "blue button" applications that would allow patients to download their personal medical data from providers and insurers.
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Former New Orleans mayor wasted money with outsourcing, IG says
Inspector general faults former Mayor Ray Nagin for outsourcing technology that increased the costs of recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
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DHS offers e-mail services via private cloud
The Homeland Security Department will provide e-mail as a service through a private cloud platform to its various components and agencies as part of data-center consolidation efforts.
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Researchers knock part of the Internet offline
A university software experiment accidentally shut down a small part of the Internet last week.
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Correction: $40B RFP lays groundwork for health IT market
This article has been corrected to state that the Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide acquisition contract’s presoliciation was released Aug. 17. The request for proposals is expected to be released in early September. The CIO-SP 3 Small Business GWAC is expected later in September.
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DOD's response could be driving traffic to WikiLeaks
Traffic data shows that government briefings and other activities could be driving traffic to the controversial WikiLeaks site that leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan.
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