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Measuring green
Agencies turn to service-level agreements and other forms of performance contracting to achieve new energy efficiency and electronics stewardship goals
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OMB: Agencies improve finance reporting
Nineteen of 24 agencies, one more than last year, received clean opinions on their fiscal 2007 reports.
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OPM suspends telework for some of its workers
It was temporarily stopped Oct. 29 during a transition to the agency's modernized retirement system, which will go live in February 2008.
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Brubaker's new focus is research
DOT's funding decisions will help shape the future civilian transportation infrastructure
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IT central to challenges facing Justice
The department's IG gives IT its own spot on its annual top 10 list of management challenges and notes it plays a role in other areas of concern.
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Report: Legal eagles can aid cross-government collaboration
A study commissioned by NASCIO encourages government officials to establish clear governance models before beginning work on projects that cut across agency or government boundaries.
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Flying during Thanksgiving? The government is here to help
FAA will offer real-time updates on flight delays, and FAA and DOD have opened military airspace to commercial travel.
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Letter: CHCOs should communicate more with workers
Sharing internally hinges on the desire and ability to communicate up, down and sideways and the ability to recognize talent in all its forms.
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GSA's Mitchell to retire
Mary Mitchell has been a leader in e-government and financial management.
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GSA's 'financial house in order,' Doan says
The agency's commercial schedules program showed growth of 2.2 percent, a high for GSA.
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IG: Problems linger from rush to create TSA
DHS' inspector general also blamed TSA's lack of an integrated infrastructure on the CIO's lack of authority to do so.
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House Democrats rebuke State's IG
They say he mismanaged an investigation into laptop computers thought to have posed a security risk.
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2008 workforce plans focus on telework, recruitment
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council will work more closely next year with OPM on its goals.
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Letter: Program coordination must exist at enterprise level
As many project managers will attest, you can seldom implement any solution without having dependencies on other strategic initiatives within an organization.
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Senate committee passes IG, telework, e-gov bills
The White House and Senate in close negotiations on the legislation, especially the Inspector General Reform Act.
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