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Wired for telework
Federal agencies struggle to overcome reservations about a flexible work option they must offer eligible employees
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Web extra: Technologies for telework
Agencies have extensively tested and used many telework technologies.
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Microsoft agrees to open format converter
In response to government pressure, the company will make its products interoperable with ODF.
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Fireside chats for the 21st century
Podcasts are a new way for the government to reach out to citizens.
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FCC seeks comments to improve disaster comms
Proposed rules aim to restore the telecommunications infrastructure faster after a catastrophe.
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USDA seeks Farm Bill business systems
The Agriculture Department seeks information about applications that can automate farm program business delivery, including eligibility for benefit payments.<@SM>
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GAO: Agencies are Networx-ready
However, at least two departments that GAO examined demonstrated significant deficiencies, according to a report.
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DARPA seeks leap in communications tech
Lumera awarded contract to build state-of-the-art polymer modulators, which will boost land-based and satellite radio links.
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GSA seeks Nextel sources
The agency has published a notice that it is looking for sources of Integrated Digital Enhanced Network-based cellular services under a contract awarded to Nextel in 2002.
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IT comfort food (and no strained soup puns)
We scoured government and industry for a bad word about NASA’s Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract that counts 400,000-plus products in its catalog—and were hard-pressed to find one.
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Supercomputer checks potential Discovery risks
The Columbia system, named in memory of the crew lost in the 2003 shuttle disaster, is assessing images of debris that affected Discovery during its ascent.
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Web-based 'coach' helps laid-off workers
Devis' product helps users navigate resources including career assessments, resume writing and job bank information.
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The science of SEWP
Federal IT purchasing contracts, like taxes, are a necessary evil not normally the object of rapturous elegies by their users. Which is why the near-total admiration expressed by a sampling of people who use the governmentwide acquisition contract run by NASA invites skepticism.<@SM>
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GPO wants feedback as IG office modernizes
The Government Printing Office is gauging industry interest in helping the agency’s inspector general improve its auditing abilities over the next several years.<@SM>
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Joanne Woytek | Staying on course with SEWP
Joanne Woytek is the program manager for NASA’s Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement govenrmentwide acquisition contract—one of only four true GWACs authorized by the Office of Management and Budget.
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GAO criticizes DOD classification program
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence has little involvement or oversight of how components are implementing classification program, GAO says.
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A flurry of HR LOB activity
The government’s efforts to consolidate human resources functions are moving into high gear. Over the next several weeks, the HR Line of Business interagency task force—led by the Office of Personnel Management—will issue additional requirements that agencies and private companies must meet to be considered HR shared-services providers.
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Labor starts A-76 competition for program analysts
The Labor Department is competing 51 program analyst positions in its Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Technology and Survey Processing under A-76.
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