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A paperless manifesto: 7 proposals
Early adopters in the digital records revolution share tips on winning conversion battles.
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Education Dept. taps Perot for IT infrastructure work
The department will move its network infrastructure from a government-owned environment to one owned and operated by a contractor.
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Broadband operators reject ding-a-ling answers
Scottsburg, Ind., officials got tired of waiting for broadband service to come, so they created their own
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Bureau of Labor Statistics awards $52M infrastructure support services contract
G&B Solutions will provide technical support, system and network administration and engineering, and network analysis.
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DOE, industry commit to greener data centers
The department and the Green Grid, a consortium of IT companies, signed an MOU to implement energy management programs and adopt clean energy technologies.
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Trust, skills crucial to sharing information in emergencies, report states
Researchers in New York have issued a report that examines the task of coordinating a regional response to events that disrupt telecommunications networks.
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SEWP business is up, fee down
Popularity of SEWP IV prompts NASA to lower the contract’s service fee
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Get ready for all-IP networks
New IP-based services on Networx could usher in big changes for federal agencies
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OPM posts alert on USAJobs
Experts assessing fallout from USAJobs breach warn users to beware of scams
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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.
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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?
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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
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Alliance: DHS will miss Pass card deadline
The Smart Card Alliance says the department cannot finish testing ID cards with RFID tags in time for them to be an alternative to passports by next summer.
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Thompson: Setting the standard
OMB’s secure desktop configuration mandate is a good first step toward improved security
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FCC gets wired for disaster response
Agency launches Web database to report communications infrastructure damage
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