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EPA to close library
Proposed cuts in the fiscal 2007 budget have prompted officials to shutter the agency’s Midwest Regional Library in anticipation of the budget's approval.
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Masters of disaster
FCW has recognized more than a dozen individuals in government, industry and the nonprofit sector who responded to Hurricane Katrina and helped in the recovery.
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Capt. Fred Mingo: Calm heads prevail in crisis response
Mingo initiated a continuity of operations plan that kept Spawar in business when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
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FAA: Knowledge sharing shouldn’t be forced
Agency’s use of online collaboration space has expanded to solve workgroup problems
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Capt. Jeffrey J. Arsenault: Deployable comms aid supply effort
Hurricane Katrina tested Arsenault’s leadership, but his personality and training helped him overcome obstacles to supporting Air Force relief efforts.
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GAO: FBI, GSA mismanaged Trilogy contractors
A report cites more than $17 million in potential overcharging and lost or stolen equipment.
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Michael Gardner: IRS answers FEMA’s call for help
Gardner, along with a FEMA specialist and a co-worker, converted more than 850 workstations for FEMA's use a few days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
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G. Kelly Croft: SSA averts delay in check deliveries
Croft sent technicians to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast to establish computer networks to restore connectivity and provide Social Security checks.
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Lt. Col. Kenneth C. Blakely: AKO opens virtual community center
Blakely's speedy organization of an online center helped Army staff affected by Hurricane Katrina contact relatives and find shelter.
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Experts: GSA needs leaders fast
With news of another high-level manager leaving, the agency needs to bring in bold leaders to right its course immediately, experts say.
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Catherine Poole: Rules of road guide emergency buys
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Poole helped provide timely information about emergency acquisition procedures.
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Cyrus G. “Jerry” Lohfink and Jim Preissner: Government/industry team delivers fed paychecks
Working together, Lohfink and Preissner kept Hurricane Katrina’s devastation from disrupting the processing of federal paychecks.
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Congress questions financial management consolidation
OMB called to answer for lack of guidance on shared services initiative
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Lt. Joe Morgan: Quick work aids missing-person searches
Morgan helped the Coast Guard create a system to track missing-person reports in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
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Deborah Kutzleb: Debris database tracks vessel recovery
Post Hurricane Katrina, Kutzleb and Phoenix International produced a database to track of thousands of vessels as the Navy cleared the waterways.
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GSA clarifies telework rules
The detailed guidelines published March 17 in a General Services Administration bulletin are effective immediately.
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CIO: Proactive approach to risk is essential
Dale Meyerrose of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the law that created his office was intended to disrupt the status quo.
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Cooper: We need a national IT disaster response plan
But the federal government should not lead it, he added.
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