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Interior adding services, customers to Lines of Business

The Interior Department’s National Business Center is preparing up to four proposals to compete to provide financial management services for agencies as a center of excellence under the Lines of Business Consolidation Initiative.<@SM>

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Survey: Federal CIOs want to align IT with mission

Hiring and retaining skilled professionals rose to fourth place and stayed a perennial top issue, according to an AFFIRM study.

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3 agencies win management awards

Labor, State and SSA win top management honors this week as recipients of the President’s Quality Awards.

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NAPA to study government accountability

The National Academy of Public Administration will analyze the impact of a rapidly expanding contractor workforce on government accountability.

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GSA gears up for HSPD 12 buys

Companies have until Jan. 9, 2006, to submit information about components of a security identity card system.

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Citizens warm to fed Web sites

The ACSI aggregate e-government satisfaction score for 2005 was 2.5 percent higher than a year ago.

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Feds to use faster, safer fingerprint standard

The government is expected to announce that federal ID cards will use a mathematical, minutiae-based template of fingerprint images of cardholders' two index fingers.

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SANS offering security, management master’s degrees

The SANS Institute now offers two master’s degree programs to provide advanced engineering and management training to information technology security professionals.

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Circuit: Who's in, who's out and who's changed jobs

Here's a list of movers, shakers and newcomers at DHS and elsewhere in the government IT world in 2005.

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Welles: Looking back at 2005

It has been a year of mixed blessings for federal employees and retirees

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Lawsuit alleges OPM withholds workforce data

The personnel office is whittling down FOIA by withholding access to portions of a federal employee database containing nonpersonal information, a research group alleges.

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Editorial: The challenges ahead

A review of the challenges of 2005 and the challenges of the new year.

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Bionic ear transformed Royer's life

IRS computer specialist motivated to champion Section 508 programs

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Fed telework on the rise but still falls short

Expanded federal marketing efforts contributed to significant increases in telework in 2004, a new survey shows.

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2005: Best places, big stresses and more change

A few agencies shine in workplace surveys; new HR systems had a rough takeoff

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Forrester advises using tech to retain and train young feds

An industry analyst said workers who are 25 years old and younger have many characteristics that federal agencies need as they seek ways to replenish the workforce.

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CIO Council delivers EVM policy framework

The CIO Council documents serve as a model framework by providing agencies with the major components of an EVM policy.

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North Dakota's CIO to retire at end of year

Curtis Wolfe expanded North Dakota’s digital capabilities and created new business opportunities in the state.

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Telework advocates stress pandemic preparedness

States must be prepared to communicate and share information regionally in the event of a pandemic, former Virginia governor says.

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OPM opens jobs office at Walter Reed

The new OPM office will coordinate activities with the staff of Walter Reed’s Transition Assistance Program.