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The first 90 days: Success strategies
Book offers transition strategies for new government leaders.
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House bill defunds parts of NSPS
Citing basic workers’ rights, Congress and courts denounce DOD personnel system.
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DHS loses top privacy official
Maureen Cooney, the agency's acting chief privacy officer, is leaving in September to join a law firm.
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No one-size-fits-all approach for EVM
New FAR rule allows agencies to tailor their IT project management policies.
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GSA names new regional administrator
Emily Baker will oversee 750 employees in the Northeast and Caribbean Region.
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GAO: Attack warning systems over cost, behind schedule
Air Force efforts to upgrade systems by fiscal 2006 have been plagued by a lack of oversight and poor management, the report states.
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Argon ST buys defense wireless communications firm
The company paid about $41 million in cash for San Diego Research Center.
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House calls for single grants database
The House has passed legislation to establish a public database for tracking federal grants, a move that advocates say will bring a new level of transparency to<@SM>the government grant-making process.
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USDA acts fast to fight soybean rust infection
An online early warning system the Agriculture Department put in place to help growers fight an infection targeting U.S. soybean crops has, by some estimates, saved farmers hundreds of millions of dollars.<@SM>
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DHS names new operations director
Roger Rufe Jr., a retired Coast Guard vice admiral, replaced Matthew Broderick.
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Doan: Employee buyouts not a first option
She plans to defer decisions about such offers to Jim Williams, head of the Federal Acquisition Service.
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FAR gives agencies EVM wiggle room
Agencies have discretion in determining when and how to apply earned value management, under the final acquisition rule.
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Doan names GSA's White House liaison
John Horton has worked at the State Department’s Office of White House Liaison and SBA's Office of International Trade.
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Senators give mapping center a chance for survival
Congress seeks to keep the center in Rolla, Mo., which employs 130 people, open.
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CBP wins award from GSA
It won the first Travel and Relocation Innovation Award for its work to relocate 15,000 Border Patrol agents.
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Performance bill hearing emphasizes training
Two separate Senate bills offer new proposals for training managers and withholding pay increases from employees who don't do their jobs well.
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Max Peterson out at CDW-G
The vice president of federal sales has left the company, effective today.
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Ridge joins Iridium Satellite board
The former DHS secretary "brings a deep knowledge of homeland security," the company's CEO and chairman said.
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