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Clipping the wings of indulgent travelers
VA and other agencies turn to new e-travel systems to trim excessive costs.
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Smart phones, smart leadership?
Management becomes a 24/7 job when executives,managers and supervisors get BlackBerrys.
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SAIC names two business unit managers
SAIC names J.T. Grumski and Doug Wagoner to the two positions.
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Encryption roulette
NIH’s CIO says the agency doesn’t have answers yet to all the challenges of safeguarding data on mobile computing devices.
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House passes bill with contracting reforms
The House has approved a spending bill with provisions designed to curb fraud by government contractors.
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CXO Lessons Learned: A new workforce paradigm
The seamless mixing of feds and contractors complicates workforce management.
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Career execs lead during administrative transitions
A change of administrations poses familiar challenges and opportunities for career federal service leaders.
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Connecting the dots among security initiatives
TIC, Networx and IPv6 programs intersect to provide security and the future’s technology.
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Agencies seek data exchange standards
Working group collaborates and shares documents in a wiki as they develop standards for formulating federal agency budgets.
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Battling more than demographics
Job hopping, premature promotions could be more of a threat to the acquisition workforce.
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Defense bill would halt A-76 competition
The Defense Authorization bill for fiscal 2009 would impose a three-year moratorium on A-76 competitions and require stronger contractor ethics rules.
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DOD moves to limit excessive pass-through costs
An interim rule seeks to limit contractor charges for subcontracted work.
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Will NARA be ready for Bush's e-records?
GAO and NARA's IG are concerned about whether NARA's new system for archiving the Bush administration's e-records will be ready by January.
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Letter: Recruit employees with a quicker hiring process
A reader writes "the federal government...still fosters an antiquated and stovepiped hiring process."
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Letter: Government blogs are a good first step
A reader writes that there is more than blogging under Web 2.0 applications.
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Letter: Public can participate in history by preserving it
A reader suggests that the National Archives and Records Administration quicken its digitization pace with help from the public and wikis.
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