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OPM posts alert on USAJobs
Experts assessing fallout from USAJobs breach warn users to beware of scams
Modernization
Life in the pretelework days
“I’m a dinosaur,” said Rita Franklin, the Energy Department’s deputy chief human capital officer, reflecting on what working life was like when she began her civil-service career in the late 1970s. At the beginning, the notion of telework was unimaginable.
Modernization
GSA’s 50 percent solution: How to get there
How can the General Services Administration reach its goal of having 50 percent of eligible employees teleworking at least one day a week within three years?
Modernization
Questions and more questions
As an increasing number of federal employees work from home, more administrative and legal questions concerning responsibility and oversight are likely to arise. Michael Castagna, chief information security officer at the Commerce Department, shared a few of those questions at a conference sponsored by the Telework Exchange. How does an agency's help desk support teleworkers who are using home PCs? If an employee does something illegal on a home PC during work hours when…
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GSA hopes other agencies will follow suit
In addition to its responsibility for meeting internal telework goals, the General Services Administration, with the Office of Personnel Management, is responsible for leading federal telework efforts. In that role, GSA runs 14 telework centers in the Washington metropolitan area where approved federal employees can use government-issued computers. Officials are discussing the possibility of running a line into a GSA center that would enable employees to access the Defense Department's secure Secret Internet Protocol Router Network.…
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Telework and the boomers’ coming retirement tsunami
Federal agencies are bracing for a massive exit of experience and talent in the next few years as baby boomers, who make up a large share of the federal workforce, begin to retire. Managers hope that at least some of them will forgo the golf course for the telework option and will stick around to teach younger employees the tricks of the trade. Many managers who will be eligible for retirement in the next five…
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Reluctant managers resist telework
Telework proponents urge better training programs and funding
People
HUD awards $42.6M program management contract
The Housing and Urban Development Department has awarded a $42.6 million contract to G&B Solutions of McLean, Va., to provide program management services and institutionalize program management approaches departmentwide.
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Giuliani: Federal workforce is too big
If elected president, he would invest more money in technology rather than replace many retiring workers.
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GAO: VA data still at risk
Agency officials have taken numerous steps to secure sensitive data, but those initiatives are not comprehensive or mature enough to be effective, GAO auditors say.
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Lawmakers want OMB to address core problems with IT projects
Research by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee finds that 20 percent of all federal IT projects need to be rebaselined.
People
HUBZone program vulnerable to fraud, lawmaker says
Holes in the SBA program's certification process leave it open to abuses, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) said.
Digital Government
Evans: Desktop standards will make networks safer
Office of Management and Budget officials believe a standard computer desktop configuration will dramatically improve security governmentwide, said Karen Evans, OMB's administrator for e-government and information technology.
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N.Y. county joins global tech network
Westchester County has accepted its invitation to join the Global Digital City Network, which provides a forum for information sharing and promoting joint initiatives.
Digital Government
House passes FAA funding bill
But a veto threat from the White House and a different approach from the Senate mean the agency's budget is still up in the air.
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GAO: VA data still at risk
Agency officials have taken numerous steps to secure sensitive data, but those initiatives are not comprehensive or mature enough to be effective, GAO auditors say.
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