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Letter: CHCOs should communicate more with workers

Sharing internally hinges on the desire and ability to communicate up, down and sideways and the ability to recognize talent in all its forms.

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GSA's Mitchell to retire

Mary Mitchell has been a leader in e-government and financial management.

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Better information sharing on the horizon

Lawmakers' meeting with the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group provides initial details on how to improve threat assessment information.

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Lawmaker wants small biz to get more DHS work

The House Homeland Security Committee’s chairman says small firms can react quicker to change than large contractors can.

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GSA's 'financial house in order,' Doan says

The agency's commercial schedules program showed growth of 2.2 percent, a high for GSA.

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IG: Problems linger from rush to create TSA

DHS' inspector general also blamed TSA's lack of an integrated infrastructure on the CIO's lack of authority to do so.

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Records maintenance rule loses paper vs. digital distinction

Beginning Dec. 17, agencies will not submit separate plans for doing upkeep on digital files.

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House Democrats rebuke State's IG

They say he mismanaged an investigation into laptop computers thought to have posed a security risk.

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2008 workforce plans focus on telework, recruitment

The Chief Human Capital Officers Council will work more closely next year with OPM on its goals.

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The real e-gov: The national toilet registery

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Senate committee recommends Young for confirmation

John Young Jr. would become undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.

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Letter: Program coordination must exist at enterprise level

As many project managers will attest, you can seldom implement any solution without having dependencies on other strategic initiatives within an organization.

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Senate committee passes IG, telework, e-gov bills

The White House and Senate in close negotiations on the legislation, especially the Inspector General Reform Act.

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Suss hires two EDS veterans

Don Scott and George Sibley join the company's team.

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Harmony hires new VP of sales

William Sullivan will provide strategic and operational direction to the company's global sales operations and sales support teams, expand business partnerships, define sales channels, and set corporate objectives.

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Administration orders accountability for program performance

Agencies will select an agency performance improvement officer and approve annual and long-term goals toward improved program performance, according to the order.

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Letter: A database of 800,000 records is nothing

Why does the Bush administration need so much money for something that seems rather simple?

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Get a Life!: Don’t let the turkey get you down

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IG: IRS needs better plan for updating aging hardware

The agency has been working to maintain and replace old hardware, but it lacks funding and comprehensive information, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.

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Bush signs DOD spending bill, vetoes Labor, HHS, Education bill

The fiscal 2008 Defense bill would give the military more than $459 billion in discretionary spending.