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Leaders urged to manage dissent
New book offers ideas for coping constructively with oppositional employees
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Adding telework to agency survival kits
A distributed workforce can keep essential services running after devastating man-made or natural disasters
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Legislation would put grant info on Web
A bill introduced in the House would establish a public database to track federal grants.
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SMS does SOS
Short Message Service is earning a valued role as a link of last resort for crisis communications.
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Input moves into IT consulting
Firm known for its subscription databases hires high-profile former feds as consultants
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Some types of Web links break the law
Oregon legislators discover that linking to nongovernment sites violates state laws
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Agencies use more early-outs, buyouts
A new GAO report states that the total number of agencies using such offers to adjust their workforces has increased in the past two fiscal years.
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USPS bar codes get smaller, smarter
The Postal Service is expecting its bar codes to do more with less.<@SM>
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DOJ, DOD stress self-powered communications
The departments say Hurricane Katrina exposed the need for technology that can operate without a traditional infrastructure.
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Bill would require Congress to post lobbyist gifts
Members would have to publish on their official Web sites the cost of gifts and lobbyists' names.
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EMERGE2's failure sends DHS back to drawing board
Officials will go through a replanning phase that will look at several viable alternatives, including initiatives several DHS agencies have undertaken.
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5 states get grants to improve info sharing
NGA awarded each $50,000 to work on systems that share criminal justice information.
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CTC lands $1.5M Army order
The company will install a network switching system at Fort Belvoir, Va.
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Espaol.gov adds e-mail alerts
The system is available on 17 of the site's most visited pages.
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Expect increased state, local IT spending
With tax revenues exceeding expectations, Input projects state and local information technology spending to reach $72 billion by 2011.
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GSA awards contract training deals
The agency called the awards to three firms the first major acquisition under the Acquisition Workforce Training Fund for training services from commercial vendors.
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Auditors say help desks lack metrics
Customer service centers, most of which are contractor-operated, do not specify accuracy as a contract performance metric or as a major focus of oversight.
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GAO will tally costs of NSPS
Comptroller General David Walker will conduct a comprehensive review of the cost of the Defense Department’s new civilian personnel system.
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