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White House wins round in e-mail fight
A federal judge has ruled that the White House’s Office of Administration does not have to release documents that detail the White House’s e-mail archive practices. The documents were sought by a group suing the White House for allegedly losing millions of messages.
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EPA seeks info-sharing ideas
EPA launched a temporary blog to collect best practices on information sharing from the public.
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GAO: FDA needs food safety planning
However, the FDA has taken a first step to modernize its policies and approach to food safety, but its plan lacks of specifics, a GAO official says.
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GAO union optimistic about pay
Bill to grant pay raises to hundreds of GAO employees who were denied them under the agency’s restructured pay system might become law.
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GSA appoints chief acquisition officer
Theodore Haddad will take over from acting CAO David Drabkin.
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Letter: Prior fed experience requirement blocks potential applicants
A reader writes, "If they are truly looking to fill these jobs, then this prior fed employment restriction needs to be made to go away."
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Airlines say they lack the IT for US-VISIT
Industry reps say the carriers are not equipped to handle the all the biometric data collected from foreign travelers.
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Buzz of the Week: Discussing Web 2.0 concerns using Web 2.0
There are no clear answers in how to manage government-sponsored wikis and other Web 2.0 tools.
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Editorial: Millennial makeover
Many are in awe and fear of the hyper-connected young people entering government, many of whom never knew the pre-Internet world.
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Agencies to conduct acquisition self-evals
OFPP says effective internal controls would help ensure that agencies can manage their contracts and reduce procurement waste, fraud and abuse.
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Back to square one on clearances
Joint Security and Suitability Reform Team focuses on factors that cause delays and create backlogs.
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OPM’s best practices for COOP
The Office of Personnel Management provides key principles for continuity-of-operations planning.
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Keeping employees in the COOP loop
Agencies examine how to engage teleworkers in their continuity of operation plans.
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COOP makes a telework connection
Agencies know they have to get their work done, regardless of power outages or natural disaster, but are they COOP ready?
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GSA and AFGE sign telework agreement
The General Services Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees have agreed to a policy that lets GSA employees combine telework with alternative work schedules.
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Senior exec group urges changes to pay system
Major improvements are needed to the Senior Executive Service pay system if the SES is to recruit talented employees, officials say.
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Court stops privacy for livestock database
A federal district court has ordered the Agriculture Department to suspend its effective date for applying Privacy Act safeguards to a database that is the foundation for the National Animal Identification System.
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Army official urges strategic use of Lean Six Sigma
Mark Von Heeringen talked at a conference about the importance of selecting process improvement projects that support the strategic vision of the Army’s senior leaders.
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