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Former OMB chief architect joins MEGA
Richard Burk adds to his consulting work a position on the company's advisory board.
Acquisition
62 companies get spots on Alliant Small Business
The GWAC is worth about $15 billion over 10 years and offers management and technical support services.
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Senate confirms VA secretary nominee
James Peake replaces James Nicholson, who resigned in September.
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Letter: Article mischaracterizes Bechtel's post-Katrina work
FEMA praised Bechtel employees' work in the affected areas of Mississippi, and DHS' IG expressed concern about FEMA's oversight, not about the company.
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Letter: Quality of EVM metrics depends on underlying data
Contractually reported data is not always a valid measure of technical progress and cost performance.
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Mitchell's interim replacement named
Stan Kaczmarczyk will continue as the Office of Governmentwide Policy's principal deputy associate administrator while overseeing the Office of Technology Strategy.
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Most fed data is un-Googleable
After five years, a major E-Gov Act provision goes unmet because of search problems.
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Buzz of the Week: Re-prioritizing security
Resolution continuing; Avoid name dropping; Do we need another chief tomanage?
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Letter: Chief management officers won't help
Without any real job qualifications, the position could be filled by unskilled but aggressive White House supporters.
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Real ID grants to assist states
“These funds will advance the ability of states to verify the legitimacy of documents that applicants present and to confirm that the applicants are who they say they are," Secretary Michael Chertoff said.
Modernization
NARA finishes testing first ERA software
The first piece of software from Lockheed Martin will help the government create and process e-records schedules and requests for e-records transfers.
Digital Government
Hot or not: Congress failed to make a mark
But policies for better information sharing and e-discovery were positive advances
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Want to come home again?
Once retired, then rehired, some feds return to their former agencies to pass on their program knowledge
Modernization
Hot or not: Not a case of business as usual
Some CIOs gained new authorities, but not all gains offset the challenges facing managers.
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National labs suffer cybersecurity breaches
Personally identifiable data may have been exposed as a result of the hackings at the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National laboratories.
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