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Agarwal tapped to lead California's new tech department
P.K. Agarwal has been vice president of Affiliated Computer Services since 2003, but he has served as a California state official for many years.
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Feds enroll in institute to keep up-to-date
Not everything a chief information officer needs to know can be learned on the job. Some CIOs say they have to step away from their day-to-day responsibilities to gain a broader perspective and see what lies ahead.
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Blum gets competitive OMB post
Federal competitive sourcing initiative manager Mathew Blum will become OMB's new associate administrator for competitive sourcing.
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Ciber gets aerospace contract
The consulting firm will help a NASA center develop a curriculum for its engineers.
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Bill would give feds e-health records
A second forthcoming bill would set into law the government's national health IT coordinator and set milestones for federal agencies’ work to advance health IT.
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A laptop for every student
Massachusetts considers providing every middle and high school student with a laptop -- at a cost of about $54 million.
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OMB to add internal controls requirements to PMA scorecard
The Office of Management and Budget will add implementation of milestones for tighter internal controls to federal agencies’ ratings for the President’s Management Agenda scorecard during fiscal 2006. <@SM>
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Bonner to retire from Customs and Border Protection
As former customs commissioner, Robert Bonner oversaw the merger of three agencies and 42,000 employees into the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
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Senate looks for lessons from alternative pay systems
Senator says lawmakers and agency managers should study how alternative systems are working before changing to unproved systems.
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USAJobs Web site attracts record traffic
Office of Personnel Management officials attribute the sharp increase in visitors partly to new search features and other technical improvements.
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Miller: More valuable than ever
CIOs have been elevated to a critical security role since Sept. 11, 2001.
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Administration aims to get HR, financial centers on track
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget expect by the end of the year to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding the Lines of Business Consolidation initiatives.
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Princeton study says federal careerists make better managers
The author of the study concludes that presidents are willing to trade management competence to secure ideological loyalty.
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Auditors find gaping holes in EPA IT procedures
The Environmental Protection Agency is losing millions of dollars by not monitoring its IT systems, according to an inspector general report.
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Hobbins up for his fourth star
The Air Force’s senior IT official has been nominated for commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe.
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Plunkett: Crafting metrics not too difficult
Expert says a unified theory of performance management is necessary.
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Study calls for Vermont to embrace IT
The Vermont Institute on Government Effectiveness released a study detailing how the state could save up to $30 million a year by improving its IT infrastructure.
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E-training companies go after federal market
A recently announced partnership between Macromedia and Plateau Systems illustrates the growing demand for e-learning technologies in government agencies.
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NASA bungles e-mail policy
Directive wrongly implied that employees should not answer public inquiries
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