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Tooth and nail fight for Navy contract goes another round
Winner will claim right to provide satellite services to deployed ships
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Of money and matrimony
Court orders related to divorce or separation can have a significant impact on your federal benefits.
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Andersen Consulting lends expertise to intell agencies
Contract promises to free up three of the Pentagon's top intelligence agencies from daily administrative burdens
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Navy focuses IT training on info ops
The Navy has revamped its training program for information technology technicians and officers, focusing on the skills required to conduct network-centric warfare and information operations.
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Critical Bosnia communication contract up for grabs
The Army is seeking bids on the integral communications network that links U.S. forces in Bosnia with a satellitefed widearea network.
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China trade and foreign workers top agenda for high-tech firms
U.S. hightech companies confront two critical problems securing new markets where they can sell their products and finding enough workers to keep producing them. Solutions to both appear to lie overseas, and the companies have charted a course for Congress to help them reach their goals.
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Navy taps into Microsoft's popular Flight Simulator product
Armchair jet jockeys play Microsoft Corp.'s Flight Simulator on their PCs to capture a bit of the thrill of the real thing, which replicates an actual flight experience closely enough that this week the Navy made its customized version of Flight Simulator standard issue for all student naval aviators.
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Agent Orange studies to hit the Net this year
The Air Force plans to make available by the year's end all raw data and analysis associated with a study into the health effects of the Agent Orange herbicide used during the Vietnam War. But a congressional study has criticized the service for dragging its feet on making the data available via the Internet and other electronic media.
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Being a performance manager
Recently I taught in an executive education program that the Kennedy School conducted for senior General Accounting Office managers. My topic was performance measurement, especially the kind envisioned by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), the 1993 legislation designed to move agencies to use performance measurement to improve overall government performance.
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Savings plan needs options
Congress is contemplating muchneeded changes to the government's voluntary 401(k)type program, the Thrift Savings Plan, which places too many restrictions on its clients.
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Text of Adm. Jay Johnson's message to all Navy commands about the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet
Text of Adm. Jay Johnson's message to all Navy commands about the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.
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The harvest of an IT career
Joe Leo's laugh fills the room as he types with two fingers to demonstrate that he knows how to use a computer.
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Embrace the new economy
As we enter 2000, perhaps the greatest challenge for all of us is to ensure that the public sector keeps pace with the social transformation it set in motion when it created and unleashed the Internet. We must embrace the fact that the communication made possible by the Internet really does change everything about how the public will expect us to organize service delivery.
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Fair or foul?
Federal employees declared victory in 1997 after skillful lobbying defeated the Freedom from Government Competition Act, which many of the government's 1.8 million civilian employees feared would send the bulk of federal jobs to the private sector.
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Exec exodus
Less than two weeks into the new year, more senior government technology chiefs joined the ranks of those quitting government for work in the private sector. And circumstances virtually assure that this trickle of departures will swell into a steady stream.
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Boeing gobbles up Hughes' Defense satellite biz
Hughes Electronics Corp. announced last week that it plans to sell its satellite systems division to Boeing Co. and exit the defense and space market.
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Telecommuters beware: Kitchen accidents not covered by workers comp
Government employees who telecommute may not receive workers-compensation benefits for injuries they acquire while in their homes.
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Reed taking up residence at EDS
Anne Reed, the first CIO at the Agriculture Department, will be joining Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s Global Government Industry Group on Feb. 1 as vice president for industry relations.
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