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Reform scores big with feds
Federal employees' overall job satisfaction is on a par with privatesector workers but is particularly strong among feds who work for agencies that have made 'reinventing government' a priority, according to the results of a new federal employee survey released last week.
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Navy assesses small-biz impact of intranet deal
SBA fears multibilliondollar project will sever links between Navy, small business service providers
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President's Y2K council disbands
With its last job done, the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion packed up its boxes and closed its doors last week
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More States Join MissingMoney.com
Maine, New Mexico and Massachusetts recently joined MissingMoney.com, a free national search engine that helps people find lost assets and unclaimed property.
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Doing e-gov homework
You've slaved for months mapping out an ambitious e-commerce project that will both save the department money and deliver programs faster. Now comes the hard part: finding the money.
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NSF puts IT work force under the microscope
The National Science Foundation is funding research to help explain why women and minorities are underrepresented in the information technology work force and find out what might be done to change that inequity.
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Study: DMV Online Services are Slim
Three out of four state motor vehicle agencies do not offer people the opportunity to conduct business online, according to a study by Andersen Consulting.
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NASA starts at ground level
NASA may be launching a counterpart to its 'faster, better, cheaper' philosophy: find people, keep people, train people.
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Air Force considers contracting shuffle
The Air Force soon may be the first Defense Department organization to closely ally its business managers with its front-line deal-makers under a plan that would integrate the operations of the service's two leading information technology organizations.
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Companies join, create software to integrate job services
The partnership is driven by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which requires states to have all employment agencies joined by a 'One-Stop Operating System' by July 1
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Washington Offers Travel Info Pit Stop
Washington travelers might want to make a pit stop to check road and weather conditions at the state's new World Wide Web site, called rWeather.
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Mapping out potential GPS threats
The Transportation Department is waiting for the results of a study on how to protect systems that use the Global Positioning System from hackers intent on knocking out or distorting positioning data.
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A driving force at FTS
You won't see the General Services Administration Federal Technology Service's new commissioner out playing golf with her coworkers on a sunny weekend afternoon. More likely, you'll see her decked out in leather and a helmet, zooming down the road on the back of her husband's HarleyDavidson.
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Leaders Must Embrace Information Age
Government leaders must embrace the digital revolution and revamp information technology policy or they and their communities will be left behind, according to a Harvard report.
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Building a blueprint for agency CIOs
Federal agencies have much to learn from their state government and industry counterparts about the role chief information officers play.
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Measuring success
Despite the training-related problems, SOAR has achieved most of its goals.
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Commerce commits to outsourcing
The Commerce Department, preparing to launch a desktop outsourcing pilot project this month, has decided to select a vendor from one of its own services contracts, rather than use the existing governmentwide seat management programs.
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