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Services contracts lead in Iraq funding
Agencies obligated 80 percent of the money spent on contracts in Iraq to services contracts, the Congressional Budget Office reports.
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Agencies get more leeway on staff reductions
A final rule from the Office of Personnel Management allows agencies to arrange employees in smaller groups by pay systems or pay bands when planning force reductions.
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SBA measures economic impact on HUBZones
Officials plan to evaluate in detail how the federal contracts affect poor areas.
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TIGTA: IRS improves IT governance
Although the Internal Revenue Service is improving its oversight of IT projects, the agency must continue to intensify its project management prowess.
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Letter: Veterans' businesses need to have higher priority
A reader writes, "Vet-owned businesses should be given the same special treatment given to 8(a) businesses."
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Letter: Civil servants among the best
One reader defends the role of career civil servants and the hard work they do on a daily basis.
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PHRs will automatically contain Medicare data in CMS pilot program
A project in Arizona and Utah will test the value of online PHRs that might include information such as prescriptions and lab results.
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Missing laptop found, but security questions remain
A vendor in TSA’s Registered Traveler program temporarily lost a laptop containing the unencrypted personal enrollment data of thousands of program participants.
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DHS IG: Subcontracting concerns unfounded
IG Richard Skinner found that some subcontracting restrictions could adversely affect future responses to disasters.
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Vet-owned business advocate criticizes VA bill
Congress should push the Defense Department to comply with existing rules giving preferences to veteran-owned businesses, says John Moliere.
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Bill would create statutory IG for GAO
The new legislation would uphold GAO's existing administrative policy for an IG.
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Agencies raise grades in OMB score card
OMB grades 26 federal departments and agencies on their status and progress in five major initiatives, and it released the latest results for the quarter ended June 30.
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Buzz of the Week: Conflicts of interest: The reality show
Vendors are discussing proposed changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to address potential conflicts of interest for companies bidding on contracts.
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The tech challenge
Fusion center advocates face technical challenges dealing with accessibility and data-sharing across classified and unclassified data platforms.
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What next for fusion centers?
The infrastructure for a locally run, nationwide intelligence-sharing network is ready. Now what?
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GAO faults some DOD IT assessments
The Government Accountability Office says the Defense Department must improve its assessments of whether business system modernization efforts comply with its federated Business Enterprise Architecture.
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