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Bush leads biometric push
A new presidential directive requires agencies to create standards for sharing biometric data.
People
Back to square one on clearances
Joint Security and Suitability Reform Team focuses on factors that cause delays and create backlogs.
People
OPM’s best practices for COOP
The Office of Personnel Management provides key principles for continuity-of-operations planning.
People
Keeping employees in the COOP loop
Agencies examine how to engage teleworkers in their continuity of operation plans.
People
COOP makes a telework connection
Agencies know they have to get their work done, regardless of power outages or natural disaster, but are they COOP ready?
Digital Government
The 50-State Strategy to Sell Cyber Command
Air Force relies on tried-and-true budget politics to gain support for new command.
Digital Government
OSC chief pushed subordinate to post online rebuttals
On many occasions since 2006, Scott Bloch, head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, ordered a subordinate to post comments on blogs and in the "comment" sections of online news stories using a pseudonym.
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Groups ask court to reverse ruling, limit laptop searches at border
Fourth Amendment concerns cited, along with lack of established policy on when searches can be conducted.
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GSA and AFGE sign telework agreement
The General Services Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees have agreed to a policy that lets GSA employees combine telework with alternative work schedules.
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Senior exec group urges changes to pay system
Major improvements are needed to the Senior Executive Service pay system if the SES is to recruit talented employees, officials say.
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Court stops privacy for livestock database
A federal district court has ordered the Agriculture Department to suspend its effective date for applying Privacy Act safeguards to a database that is the foundation for the National Animal Identification System.
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Army official urges strategic use of Lean Six Sigma
Mark Von Heeringen talked at a conference about the importance of selecting process improvement projects that support the strategic vision of the Army’s senior leaders.
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Health IT office awards contract to fight medical identity theft
National coordinator for health IT asks Booz Allen to analyze prevalence of medical records theft and how to prevent and detect it.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Look To Strike Right Balance With Spyware Bill
Senate Commerce Committee members Wednesday stressed the importance of striking the right balance with legislation to help fight secretly installed computer spyware and provide the FTC with the tools the agency needs to prosecute high-tech hackers.
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