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Showing everybody the money
OMB launches a federal spending Web site ahead of schedule to the surprise of skeptics
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Senate confirms VA secretary nominee
James Peake replaces James Nicholson, who resigned in September.
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Letter: Quality of EVM metrics depends on underlying data
Contractually reported data is not always a valid measure of technical progress and cost performance.
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Mitchell's interim replacement named
Stan Kaczmarczyk will continue as the Office of Governmentwide Policy's principal deputy associate administrator while overseeing the Office of Technology Strategy.
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Buzz of the Week: Re-prioritizing security
Resolution continuing; Avoid name dropping; Do we need another chief tomanage?
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Letter: Chief management officers won't help
Without any real job qualifications, the position could be filled by unskilled but aggressive White House supporters.
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Want to come home again?
Once retired, then rehired, some feds return to their former agencies to pass on their program knowledge
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Hot or not: Not a case of business as usual
Some CIOs gained new authorities, but not all gains offset the challenges facing managers.
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National labs suffer cybersecurity breaches
Personally identifiable data may have been exposed as a result of the hackings at the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National laboratories.
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Editorial: New Year’s resolutions
As 2007 comes to an end, we look ahead to opportunities next year.
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Groups want deference to veterans preference
Some veterans groups say that the system designed to bolster former service members' hiring needs to be expanded.
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Intell's wiki pied piper
GenXer Chris Rasmussen argues that Web 2.0, like Intellipedia, can help break barriers.
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Welles: All work and no play
Why don’t information technology employees seek the downtime that the rest of us need?
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Senators support chief management officer positions
Sens. Daniel Akaka and George Voinovich say CMOs would help agencies make management a higher priority.
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Sprehe: Foolish secrecy
Lag time in releasing 8.5 million World War II records is an example of misguided classification policies
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Test feds' info security savvy, report suggests
Despite being aware of policies, federal workers continue to violate them, according to a new report by SecureInfo.
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DHS puts cybersecurity toward top of 2008 to-do list
Secretary Michael Chertoff praised the department's progress in 2007 on increased involvement with fusion centers, biometrics, ID cards and border security.
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