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Hetal Jain: Transportation's sustainability monitor
This honoree used an EPA-developed web tool to track information on DOT's teleworking, water use, energy use, employee travel, recycling, pollution and more.
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Grace E. Dalton: Coordinating email migration
This Rising Star was instrumental in coordinating the Army's effort to move 1 million people to enterprise email.
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HealthCare.gov needs less tech, more jugaad
Two architects of the world's most massive national ID system offer some ideas to fix the technological linchpin of the healthcare reform law.
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CMS struggles to remove sensitive information from cards
Fifty million Medicare cards reveal their holders' Social Security numbers, exposing them to identity theft.
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Eric T. Brassil: Freeing the flow of State Department reports
Thanks to this Rising Star, reports on 280 overseas posts are now easily accessible for Foreign Service officers and interagency employees.
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Rebecca Schwartz: Nanotechnology for the troops
Much of Rebecca Schwartz's research at Lockheed Martin is classified, but her work is generally geared toward developing technical solutions to reduce the physical burden of troops in combat.
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Fed tweeters back in action
The end of the shutdown brings expressions of relief, 140 characters at a time.
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Michael Shrader: Aiding small tech manufacturers
As a VP at Carahsoft, Shrader oversees more than 50 small companies.
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IT training trails new technology
The IT professionals who manage and operate federal systems are often unprepared to deal with technology advances because they lack time and money for adequate training.
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Start-ups: Can there be too much of a good thing?
Encouraging young people to take risks and pursue business ideas is well and good, but efforts to persuade students to skip college in favor of start-up work go too far, Steve Kelman suggests.
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Feds to get back pay after shutdown
Furloughed employees and those who stayed on the job without pay will be compensated.
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How to come back
Managers returning to work after a furlough face several challenges to get back up and running.
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Victor T. Lazzaro: Putting health data to work
Lazzaro's efforts have helped policymakers, the medical community and businesses understand how medical offices nationwide are implementing new technology.
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Obama fails transparency promises
A report from the Committee to Protect Journalists details the ways in which the Obama administration is not living up to its stated principles regarding information.
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Alexander to leave NSA, cyber posts
The departure will not be immediate, but is expected within a few months.
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Will returning feds head for the exits?
The shutdown and its furloughs might be the final straw for some federal employees, giving managers a potential morale challenge.
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Feds face insurance bills
If the government shutdown is not lifted soon, federal employees will begin receiving bills for some insurance premiums.
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6 lessons for feds from Silicon Valley (plus 3 that really don't apply)
Tech entrepreneurs' leadership goals are strikingly similar to those of agency IT executives. But the obstacles to getting there can be very, very different.
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What's so special about federal fellows?
A reader wonders if a recent article on the effects of the shutdown on federal fellowships means FCW is not concerned about the rest of the federal workforce.
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