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Employee swap: OFPP contemplates exchange program
Trading employees for short-term projects may broaden workers' careers while providing their expertise to a department in need.
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Job performance has little effect on raises, step increases
Federal pay freeze doesn't affect step raises, but new data shows that poor job performance is rarely a bar to raises.
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Getting government datasets to talk the same language
Brand Niemann explains how and why we should make data universally accessible on the Semantic Web.
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Bill takes aim at retirement benefits
A new bill would end the defined-benefit portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System for new federal hires.
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Short-term budget extensions hurt government operations, sources say
The federal government has been operating under temporary funding measures since October 2010, leaving many agencies in limbo in terms of spending and planning for the current fiscal year.
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How to move from datasets to data services
Brand Niemann challenges agencies to follow the data science approach and make all their data available for filtering and downloading in three easy clicks.
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CTO shares lessons learned from freeing HHS data
The Health and Human Services Department has been pushing out its data in recent months and the results have sparked innovation and helped consumers, Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said at a new media conference.
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OMB nominee clears Senate committee
A Senate committee approved President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy director of OMB.
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GAO official calls for stronger IT spending oversight
The federal government must strengthen its oversight of IT spending, a Government Accountability Office official said.
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Telework puts managers in tight spot, officials say
Most federal work doesn’t lend itself to measuring direct output from an employee, which makes it hard to directly measure performance, officials say.
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How to get permission to fail
Agencies can undertake risky projects, but they should expect Congress to be watching closely and demanding accountability.
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Federal CIO Kundra cites progress on IT reform plan
The Interior Department has elevated the role of its CIO and other agencies are likely to follow in coming months, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said.
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OPM's Berry: Performance and pay need not be linked
The federal government is looking to establish a new performance management system, according to a senior administration official.
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Proving value of open government falls to agencies
A panel at IRMCO describes the hazards of opening government data to the public.
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Chris Kemp to quit NASA's CTO job
Chris Kemp says he's leaving NASA to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams; expresses mixed feelings about the departure.
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Federal IT Dashboard has inaccurate data, GAO finds
The Office of Management and Budget’s IT Dashboard, a website intended to improve transparency by tracking the status of about 800 federal IT spending programs, has data flaws, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.
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OPM seeks to elevate federal information management personnel
The Office of Personnel Management is moving to strengthen information management in the government.
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DOJ, agencies get mixed reviews on FOIA
Two separate reports have contrasting views of progress on transparency in federal agencies based on their responsiveness to Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Open source: Not rocket science
NASA is set to host an open-source summit to discuss the challenges, policies and governance of the open-source community in relation to the space agency.
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