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GAO and union reach accord

GAO, IFPTE agree to union-representation election for agency analysts.

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Army urges service growth

Recruiting enough people to field more combat teams could prove difficult.

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Spending database takes shape

Much work remains to be done to create mandatory database by the 2008 deadline.

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OSC’s Bloch plays defense

Office of Special Counsel leader answers criticism about his management style.

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Many feds decide to stick around

Acquisition study finds employees eligible to retire are not leaving the workforce.

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Welles: Sticky floors

Behaviors that make you linger in a job can inhibit the growth of your career.

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DHS, DOD solving first responder ID card interoperability problem

The Summer Breeze exercise in Washington metropolitan area runs multiple scenarios for emergency services personnel.

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Circuit

An out-of-this-world internship; USDA’s CFO also gets CIO hat.

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Editorial: A full story

The mainstream media buries influential procurement issues under controversy-driven hoopla.

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Davis to OSC: Hand over e-mails from Bloch's personal account

Davis also asked the chairman of America Online to preserve all e-mail messages from Bloch's account.

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Report: DOD underestimated personnel system cost

DOD estimated it would cost $158 million to implement its National Security Personnel System, but GAO found that the figure doesn't include the full costs of deploying NSPS.

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DOD, DNI move toward Web-based info sharing

The organizations' CIOs signed an agreement to create an environment through which Pentagon and intelligence officials can access secure services.

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CIO, CTO at printing office pull job switch

CIO Reynold Schweickhardt and CTO Michael Wash will continue to work on their current projects in their new roles.

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GAO, union agree on representation election

GAO analysts will vote in a union-representation election as a result of an agreement between the agency and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.

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Survey: Most HR officials favor ditching GS pay system

A majority of federal chief human capital officers want to scrap the General Schedule pay system and move to performance-based pay systems, a survey by the Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton found.

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DHS releases Real ID implementation plan

The plan includes a staffing configuration for the Real ID Program Office and goals to focus on in the next year.

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House approves measure to rehire retired passport workers

The bill would let the State Department rehire retired Foreign Service workers to help handle a severe backlog of passport applications.

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Agriculture CFO to double as CIO

Charles Christopherson Jr., USDA's chief financial officer since November 2005, has led several joint initiatives between the two offices.

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Official: DOD HR system on track for late 2008

DOD officials decided to move forward with the system based on Business Transformation Agency Director David Fisher's assessment of it.

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Lawmakers: Poor policies enable contractor performance to go unchecked

Companies that performed poorly were still able to win subsequent contracts because of poor oversight, lawmakers said.