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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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DHS faces human capital challenges

DHS' acting deputy secretary told a Senate committee that the department's top human resources job should be held by a career official, not a political appointee as required by current law.

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Letter: Time to settle federal e-forms procurement

A reader writes that the General Services Administration needs to award the contract for e-forms.

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Letter: Doan was misunderstood

A reader writes that Doan's mission may not end with her departure.

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SEC would require XBRL for financial reporting

If adopted, large companies would have to report financial statements using interactive data next year and all other public companies in three years.

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OMB plans domain name security measures

The agency plans to to require agencies to implement security measures designed to protect information from the federal government’s domain name servers from unauthorized access.