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Obama wants smaller raises for fed employees
Citing the economic downturn and skyrocketing federal budget, the president announced he intends to trim government employees' Jan. 1 raise.
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Administration wants help archiving its Facebook, Twitter content
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Defining Transparency
Open government is about more than catching agencies making mistakes, it's about helping citizens protect their interests, scholar says.
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First responders should use service agreements for telecom equipment
Former Homeland Security secretary says the practice would allow emergency workers to upgrade equipment quicker and more cheaply.
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Navy to form directorate to manage info, cyber and space capabilities
The Information Dominance Directorate will combine functions managed by the director of Naval Intelligence and deputy chief of naval operations for communication networks.
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Administration issues solicitation to archive social media content
The White House wants to capture, extract and store information posted by its employees on publicly accessible Web sites, including Facebook and Twitter.
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Concern grows over emphasis on technology to push transparency
Some members of the open government community want the Obama administration to address policies that would make information disclosure a central part of doing business, not just creating Web sites and applications.
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Help wanted: Agencies will need 11,000 more IT workers
Federal agencies will need to hire over 270,000 new employees for mission-critical jobs over the next three years, including over 11,549 IT pros, according to new survey.
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Banging the Cyber Workforce Drum
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/56941-revamping-and-securing-our-countrys-civilian-cyber-infrastructure-rep-loretta-sanchez">writes</a> on The Hill's Congress Blog about the importance of securing a top-notch cybersecurity workforce in the federal government. The Defense Department, for example, has thousands of cybersecurity workers dedicated to combating cyber threats and building cybersecurity plans, but the Homeland Security Department has only 100 employees dedicated to this work. "With the gap between military and civilian cyber security personnel as large as it is," Sanchez writes, "there needs to be strong government leadership to increase recruitment pools and employ the next generation of cyber leaders that will help and protect our civilian networks."
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