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Joint Special Report
Federal Computer Week drills down into the top cybersecurity issues facing government today.
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Canada: Old Vets Die, So Shrink VA
That's the take of Jean-Pierre Blackburn, minister of Canada's Veterans Affairs Department, who <a href=http://www.canada.com/news/Veterans+Affairs+Department+smaller+merged+Blackburn/3363716/story.html>said last week</a> since Canada's large population of World War II and Korean War vets die at the rate of 1,700 a month, it's time to shrink the size of his department.
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Two Takes on Federal Pay Debate
Derek Thompson, a blogger at theAtlantic.com (part of Atlantic Media, Nextgov's parent company as well) tries to add more insight into the ongoing (and confusing) debate about whether federal workers make more or less than their private sector counterparts.
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Drowning in Data
The federal government softened "meaningful use" standards for electronic health records, released last month, in response to criticism that proposed rules released earlier in the year were overly onerous. Critics included the Amerian Hospital Association and the American Medical Association.
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HHS' new strategic plan emphasizes health IT
The Health and Human Services Department has asked for feedback on its draft strategic plan for 2010 to 2015.
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NARA wants you to 'like' the Constitution
The National Archives and Records Administration has started a Facebook fan page for the U.S. Constitution.
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Insourcing is not just a dollars issue
“We weren’t seeing the savings we had hoped from insourcing,” said Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Aug. 9. He was referring to work DoD had brought back in-house from the private sector, and made the statement during a press conference to explain his sweeping new plan to cut overhead and make better use of the department’s dollars.
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DARPA sets privacy rules for its programs
New privacy principles provide ethics framework for future DARPA research.
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Feds meet to find ways to fix federal IT development
The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council wants agencies to focus on project results, not reporting and compliance.
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Open Internet Coalition to FCC: Don't wait for Congress
Pushing back against a raft of lawmakers whom have urged the Federal Communications Commission to let Congress act first on Internet regulation, the Open Internet Coalition implored the commission not to wait for the legislative body to move forward with reclassification of broadband.
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