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Census counts on paper for 2010

House lawmakers grill Commerce officials about rising costs and reversion to paper.

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IBM is back, but what happened?

EPA pulls the computer giant out of limbo after the parties quickly reach an agreement.

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IG: FAA needs layers of oversight to fix safety gaps

Official finds systematic problems with agency's safety oversight.

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ODNI releases sharing strategy for intell community

The new strategy aims to improve collaboration and communication between segments of the intelligence community.

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Buzz of the Week: Blue week for Big Blue

Blue week for Big Blue

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FlipSide: A few minutes with…Jonathan Breul

A few minutes with…Jonathan Breul

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PowerPoint: Project yourself

Public-speaking experts offer pointers on delivering effective presentations

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DHS seeks to bring more small-biz dollars to veterans

The department hopes that the PACTS contract will help it reach its procurement goals for disadvantaged businesses

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Waldron: Restoring balance

GSA has an opportunity to fix problems created by a thorny price reductions clause

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Hiring managers look to outsiders

Trends show federal government looks to industry for new upper-level hires

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Agencies expect to invest in new financial systems

Input report highlights the importance of the Financial Management Line of Business initiative to OMB

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Bush nominates new DHS undersecretary for management

Elaine Duke became DHS' first deputy undersecretary for management last October.

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Letter: Agencies need to make older workers happy, too

A reader says young professionals aren’t the only ones driving changes in the government workforce.

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Letter: Craft an organizational change strategy and test it

Change is enabled by carefully crafting strategies (including, but not limited to communication and compensation) to help employees and organizations to shift their mind-sets.

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Agencies get ready to reduce Internet gateways

They must report to OMB plans for cutting external connections.

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The key to cross-agency information sharing: habit

Strong leaders are required to institute information sharing policies, but the long-term way to ensure the practice stays in place is habit.

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FOSE panelists: Government needs new approaches to hiring

Agencies must adopt nontraditional ways of recruiting and retaining employees, a group of experts said at FOSE 2008.

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Agencies grapple with search and discovery

Google's magic doesn't work in enterprise search, agencies find.

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Letter: A collapsing GSA needs to listen and lead

To date I have met no one at GSA genuinely interested in feedback from clients or industry on how to take charge of the acquisition arena as they could well do again. But even if they did listen, they would surely be unable to synthesize and manage the data and effectively respond.

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Letter: Why shouldn't OPM employees like their jobs?

When you are:[Getting] raises and sometimes even bonuses [that] are almost automatic, and you cannot be fired, what's not to like?