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NASA aeronautics official steps down
Lisa Porter will head the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity after she steps down Feb. 1.
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DHS plans to require more shipping cargo info
The department has proposed a rule that would ask importers to e-file 10 more elements about their cargo and carriers to submit two more before the products arrive in the United States.
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IRS taxpayer advocate: Congress is biggest problem
Tax code changes cause the Internal Revenue Service to delay processing returns, says Nina Olson.
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NASA aeronautics official moves to new intell agency
Lisa Porter will head the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity after she steps down Feb. 1.
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Candidates should recognize change is hard, report states
“Why not use social-networking technologies to build political support to make [innovation] move faster?” asks Bruce McConnell, president of Government Futures.
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State IT Consortium gets VP, general manager
David Popovich replaces Robert Glasser, who retired last week after joining the Systems and Software Consortium in 1990.
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VA awards contract for portal test
The department chose LS3 and Aquilent to design and develop OneVA, the access point for veterans coming into VA, an official said.
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Coast Guard asks Deepwater contractors for refund
The Coast Guard wants $96.1 million refunded, saying the companies made defective boats that do not meet requirements.
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DOD signs QinetiQ to continue security work
The department awarded the company a $30 million follow-on contract to provide services for DOD’s Counterintelligence Field Activity.
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Small business protests GPO's smart-card printing contract
The owner of Evans Security Solutions says the Government Printing Office did not evaluate proposals properly.
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Letter: Kelman's 'secrets' aren't so secret
A reader says Steve Kelman's revelations about worker productivity are obvious to anyone who's spent time in federal agencies.
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SBA promotes Ott
Fay Ott, who has been a senior manager at the Small Business Administration since 2004, is now associate administrator at the Office of Government Contracting and Business Development.
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AFGE seeks Supreme Court review of NSPS
The American Federation of Government Employees has petitioned the Supreme Court to hear its case against DOD's National Security Personnel System.
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Court considers dismissing JPL HSPD-12 lawsuit
The hearing on the motion to dismiss the case comes as a temporary injunction allowing the JPL employees to avoid the background checks remains in place.
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Court weighs expediting missing White House e-mail suit
The Bush administration has five days to respond to four questions about backup tapes believed to contain the messages in question.
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GAO: IRS has fixed only 30 percent of security gaps
The agency has not fully implemented an information security program to make sure that controls are effectively established and maintained, according to a new report.
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Letter: Nobody bothered to explore alternatives to NSPS
A reader says DOD had a successful pay-for-performance system before it came up with NSPS.
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Letter: NSPS 'bonus' is a sham
A reader takes issue with the source of NSPS bonuses and criticizes the system's effect on federal employees' retirement.
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Letter: Smithsonian records readily searchable
All of the databases in the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System are sitemapped according to the international standard and have been crawled by many, many robots.
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