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EPA, SSA get all greens on score card
On the latest President's Management Agenda score card, 82 percent of all grades are yellow or green.
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New TSA blog takes off
Officials launched the Evolution of Security blog to increase understanding and calm tempers.
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OMB: Give CFOs more responsibility
Chief financial officers are ready to go beyond data collection, said Danny Werfel, acting controller at the Office of Management and Budget.
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Letter: Restricting network use is a disservice to our troops
A reader says DOD has the tools to protect sensitive data without sacrificing the sanity of deployed troops by taking away their access to the outside world.
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Letter: Maybe DOD should ban Internet Explorer instead
A reader wonders how much of DOD’s security problem could be solved by using the Firefox browser rather than potentially blocking access to other agencies’ sites.
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Letter: Bans don’t work
A reader argues that rather than creating an environment that discourages legitimate work, DOD should educate employees on the importance of adhering to a security policy and punish those who violate it.
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Letter: How do you define non-official?
A reader says DOD’s proposed policy to ban personal use of networks would have to include a very clear -- and very detailed -- explanation of non-official traffic.
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Letter: Network restrictions would stifle innovation
A reader argues that government employees need access to online information to do their jobs.
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Letter: User education better than net restrictions
At a time when most corporations are realizing that the line between work and life is increasingly blurry, DOD seems to be considering a step back in time, writes one reader. Read the letter and post a comment.
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Letter: Not all Web traffic is a threat
A reader points out that many service members use Web-based e-mail to stay in touch with loved ones.
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Letter: FEMA front lines no place for novice acquisition workers
Getting someone straight out of college and putting them on the front line is not an answer to the shortage of acquisition workers, one reader writes.
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Letter: NSPS needs tweaking regarding pay raises
If the average salary increase for a person having a 3 [rating] is 5.4 percent then why are some agencies giving their employees a lot less.
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Welles: The fed 4-hour work week?
A best-selling book by Timothy Ferriss is filled with ideas that could change your view of work.
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Letter: Government employee dissatisfied with NSPS process, ready to leave
The NSPS folks will tell you it goes to a pay pool that will ensure the process is fair. But this did not happen, the pay pool automatically gave me a poor rating from his evaluation.
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Time for a Schedule 70 makeover?
New director of GSA's schedules contracts sorts through ideas for updating the program.
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A boom in the federal workforce
Partnership for Public Service and IBM initiate innovative retiree hiring program.
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Some at DOD get big raises
The total payout in raises under NSPS was not higher than it would have been under the older General Schedule of pay grades, but the distribution is different.
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Letter: Good performance rating may not even yield cost-of-living raise
Reader finds that "NSPS is a numbers game."
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