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Letter: Transitioning to project management difficult
t's not surprising [that] IT project management is not growing. The entrance criteria are pretty onerous, and those in charge seem to want to keep the club pure.
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GPO set to open second passport printing facility
The new $40 million dollar facility in Mississippi will help boost the agency's passport printing capacity and serve as a backup for the facility in Washington, D.C.
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GAO: Software design could hinder Future Combat System
According to GAO, the Army's FCS program now has more than 95 million lines of code, almost triple the original estimate.
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Letter: Some managers resist telework
[Management] at top levels say they are for it, however, they deny it at almost every opportunity except at the highest levels -- GS-11 and above -- because the rules say it [requires] their approval.
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DISA's Croom to retire
Lt. Gen. Charles Croom, who sought to reinvent the agency’s procurement strategy, will leave a legacy of change.
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Letter: FISMA standards lack clarity, waste time
FISMA is one of the biggest boondoggles I've seen in a long time — and a waste of time, money and effort.
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Letter: Telework programs need leaders with vision
Many are put in positions because they were next in line and/or with little or no management and leadership experience/education.
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OMB seeks to improve value of internal controls reporting
The Office of Management and Budget will hold forums to figure out how to make controls for financial reporting more valuable to agencies.
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Info-sharing czar touts U.S. progress
But Thomas McNamara says cultural and administrative challenges still impede getting government to better share homeland security, law enforcement and intelligence data.
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Feds urge the next president to communicate
Good communication between Cabinet members and career civilian feds is crucial, members of a panel say.
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Letter: Performance monitoring is critical for efficient government teleworking programs
In the private sector, if employees don't produce, they are canned. If the workforce doesn't produce, management gets canned or the company goes under. With feds there is no such accountability.
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Letter: What are some telework guidelines?
My agency is using the excuse of positions not being "appropriate" for teleworking.
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Cutter shows Deepwater progress, Coast Guard says
National Security Cutter Bertholf, part of the beleaguered modernization program, will undergo final testing soon.
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Evans concerned about legislation to regulate data resellers
Conducting privacy impact assessments on data brokers’ proprietary databases could discourage companies from offering their services to assist federal agencies, the OMB official says.
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Letter: Outsourcing is not always better or cheaper
It is a fallacy to think if you throw in 100 cheap(er) workers who have no subject-matter expertise against a new or legacy redeployed business application, they will be remotely successful in its creation.
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Letter: Educating agency staff better than limiting award fees
The solution is to educate the agency staff on how to write an award fee determination plan, how to develop meaningful metrics, how to set performance standards and how to do the required monitoring.
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United States, Germany will share biometric data
Officials signed an agreement today that will let the countries search each other's criminal fingerprint databases.
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Lawmakers push telework as overall participation drops
Security concerns and lack of a uniform tracking system are to blame for telework participation drops, OPM says.
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