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Letter: Not all Web traffic is a threat
A reader points out that many service members use Web-based e-mail to stay in touch with loved ones.
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Letter: FEMA front lines no place for novice acquisition workers
Getting someone straight out of college and putting them on the front line is not an answer to the shortage of acquisition workers, one reader writes.
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Letter: NSPS needs tweaking regarding pay raises
If the average salary increase for a person having a 3 [rating] is 5.4 percent then why are some agencies giving their employees a lot less.
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Welles: The fed 4-hour work week?
A best-selling book by Timothy Ferriss is filled with ideas that could change your view of work.
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Letter: Government employee dissatisfied with NSPS process, ready to leave
The NSPS folks will tell you it goes to a pay pool that will ensure the process is fair. But this did not happen, the pay pool automatically gave me a poor rating from his evaluation.
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The IPv6 elevator speech
FAA's Mark Powell says transition managers must be ready to deliver a short, memorable speech about IPv6.
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A boom in the federal workforce
Partnership for Public Service and IBM initiate innovative retiree hiring program.
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Some at DOD get big raises
The total payout in raises under NSPS was not higher than it would have been under the older General Schedule of pay grades, but the distribution is different.
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Letter: Good performance rating may not even yield cost-of-living raise
Reader finds that "NSPS is a numbers game."
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Stier's vision of good government
Leader of Partnership for Public Service is at the forefront of many reform efforts.
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Editorial: Departing opportunities
Political appointees often leave their posts in the last year of an administration, but in recent months, we have seen many career employees leave — and there are others who are pondering their futures.
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Web extra: Steven Squyres talks about roving on Mars
The mission of the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, was supposed to last 90 days. However, the robots’ endurance — more than 1,442 days at the time of this interview — has surprised everyone.
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Unions commend NSPS changes but say it still needs work
The Defense authorization law for 2008 makes major adjustments to DOD's National Security Personnel System.
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A Davis retrospective: 12 years of making news
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who announced today that he would not seek another term, has been focused on information technology issues since his very first term in 1996, as seen in this career retrospective.
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Agencies head back to college to recruit acquisition workers
OMB and OPM have started the Federal Acquisition Intern Coalition to educate college students about government jobs.
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