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Agencies' unique coding systems hinder Recovery Act oversight, official says
The board that oversees money from the stimulus law ran into an old problem: agencies doing things their own way and forgetting about unity, official says.
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OMB may open purse to help program reviews
Close on the heels of the fiscal 2011 review requirements, officials are now offering to help agencies pay for program evaluations.
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Should being a fed be a round-the-clock job?
Federal employees might take off their badges when they get home, but they never stop being federal employees, even on Facebook, one reader writes.
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Christopher Barnes: Empowering supercomputer users
Barnes enabled six geographically disparate DOD organizations to combine into a single enterprise, serving supercomputer users in government, industry and academia
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Nina Preuss: Connecting NIH scientists to data
2010 Rising Star award winner Nina Preuss created an online collaborative scientific community that helps scientists find software, data and other available resources about neuroimaging informatics.
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Andrew Heo: Stewarding $10B in information
2010 Rising Star award winner Andrew Heo overhauled an information assurance program to ensure that $10 billion of Space-Based Infrared System assets have worldwide availability.
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Martin Vozzo: Revitalizing distance learning
2010 Rising Star award winner Martin Vozzo revitalized the management of the JKO distance learning program. The program now offers nearly 450 certified courses, with more than 128,000 registered users.
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Donna Sheets: Shedding light on military medical mistakes
2010 Rising Star award winner Donna Sheets oversaw the design, development and deployment of a Web-based system that military medical personnel use to report possible medication or surgical errors or other patient safety concerns.
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Ryan Swann: Keeping the workforce on track
2010 Rising Star award winner Ryan Swann led the development of a system that helps human resources managers sift through huge volumes of personnel data and gauge how well their agencies comply with HR policies and goals.
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Sara Mosley: Locking down the State Department's Internet connections
2010 Rising Star award winner Sara Mosley helped the State Department emerge as a leader in network security by leading the deployment of the Trusted Internet Connections initiative.
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Douglas Haskin: Fortifying hardware and software for soldiers in the field
2010 Rising Star awards winner Douglas Haskin helped successfully field more than 4,000 hardware items to soldiers and successfully implement 50 software changes.
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James Carver: Surging technology to the next battlefield
2010 Rising Star winner James Carver managed on-time fielding of more than 3,200 systems to more than 50 active-duty Army, National Guard and Reserve units at more than 36 sites worldwide.
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Wayne Speaks: Making the rounds for military health applications
2010 Rising Star award winner Wayne Speaks developed a process for assessing the performance of critical Military Health System applications on a daily basis.
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Shane Sanders: Demystifying classified information sharing
2010 Rising Star award winner Shane Sanders has developed an approach — using existing technology — that should make it feasible for one network to handle two types of top-secret information.
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David Parrish: Befriending small biz on behalf of the IRS
2010 Rising Star award winner David Parrish improved the acquisition process for several critical Internal Revenue Service projects, looking in particular to work with small and disadvantaged businesses.
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Allison Scogin: Sculpturing trusted data networks for warfighters
2010 Rising Star award winner Allison Scogin assisted in developing, implementing and troubleshooting DOD's massive public key infrastructure and public key enabling initiatives.
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Nick Saund: Setting a guard post for military health information
2010 Rising Star award winner Nick Saund strengthened the protection of sensitive data stored in Defense Health Services Systems applications by quickly developing a single-sign-on system.
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Kathleen Druitt: Bridging the gap between recovery act initiatives
2010 Rising Star winner Kathleen Druitt led the implementation and operation of Recovery.gov and FederalReporting.gov, which included frantic testing two weeks before the sites' scheduled launch.
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Pablo Vilaboa: Supporting first responders after the Haiti earthquake
2010 Rising Star award winner Pablo Vilaboa made sure the help desk hit its marks providing technical support to first responders pouring into the Southern Command in response to the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti.
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