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Rx for security clearance delays
A joint reform team’s proposal calls for an automated investigative process.
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Doan's undoing
In the end, ethics allegations didn't force her exit, but the hassles she caused did.
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Law hinders competitive sourcing, officials say
A report on competitive sourcing ahows a decline in competitions between the public and private sectors that officials attributed to legislative restrictions.
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Court reverses error on injunction review
A federal appeals court might still review an injunction that shielded employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from the background investigations required under HSPD-12.
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SSA creates panel to guide systems' future
The Social Security Administration will establish an advisory panel to analyze the agency’s information technology environment and recommend future systems enhancements.
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Web extra: Otto Doll: How good collaboration happens
Doll discusses how collaborations take shape and change with different participants.
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IRS studies expanding electronic filing
The Senate Appropriations Committee has directed the service to consider all possibilities to expand the electronic filing of tax returns to 80 percent by 2012.
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Letter: Young feds stereotyped, work undervalued
A reader writes that the skills the new generation of workers holds is an "untapped resource."
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Letter: Better staff needed to ease security clearance process
A reader writes: "I have been a Personnel Security Specialist for more than 20 years and have seen the entire clearance process steadily decline."
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Letter: Doan was a good change manager
A reader writes that done was a "caring leader of an organization that needed leadership."
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Social Security braces for retirees
Simplified and automated procedures will be deployed to help manage the workload.
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Rules of engagement
Federal and state leaders of an environmental initiative share what they’ve learned about intergovernmental collaboration.
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Editorial: End of the Doan era
GSA Administrator Lurita Doan couldn't overcome her missteps along the path to fighting a good fight.
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Amtower: A drop in the bucket
Frenzy about abuses of GSA’s small-purchase credit card program ignores its ample value.
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Army uses Lean yardstick
Measuring and analyzing service bottlenecks improved the Army’s reputation with veterans.
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Mistrust fosters oversight arms race
Lawmakers and acquisition leaders compete on measures to improve contractor oversight.
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Technology changes states' financial models
Members of a panel of experts say yearly appropriations models can't keep pace with the fast pace of technology innovation.
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Letter: Doan deserved more support from administration
A reader writes about Lurita Doan's positive work ethic and the resistance she faced in Washington's bureaucracy.
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