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OPM to train feds to spot fake credentials

Personnel employees will learn to spot bogus academic credentials

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Smythe to OMB: Manage thyself

OMB has named Austin Smythe to spearhead the agency's efforts to implement the President's Management Agenda.

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CIO: EPA must improve services

Agency has made progress consolidating IT, but service falls short of demand, says Kimberly Nelson

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OPM to search for bogus credentials

OPM will train personnel managers to spot bogus academic credentials.

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Cisco hands diplomas to Army reservists

Seventeen Army reservists have become Cisco Certified Network Associates after completing free training

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Jim Williams: Under pressure

Profile: Former IRS program czar takes on challenge of US-VISIT

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FBI purchases training simulator

Portable digital system generates scenarios to assess how agents analyze and respond to dicey situations

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Results Act at a crossroads

It's still a work in progress, agencies say

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Agencies improve management

Agencies are improving their scoring on the Bush administration's management agenda

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Security clearance forms go online

OPM Web site will enable federal employees to revise, rather than redo, behemoth SF-86

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Report: Feds lack bioterror training

The government is unable to properly deal with a bioterrorism attack because workers have not been adequately trained, a new report says

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Roster Change

Government IT personnel moves

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DOD agencies undo standardization

Agencies have undone some of the IT standardization of the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System

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SSA employees win A-76 study

Streamlined study determined that a contractor could not do the software testing work at lower cost

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INS puts its customers first

Despite shift to DHS, callers still get through

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Not just a commodity

Commentary: Risk management is now the most important task

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OMB responds to union A-76 lawsuits

Federal employee unions are trying to unfairly block federal jobs from competition, OMB says

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IRS names human capital officer

Beverly Ortega Babers has been selected as the agency's first chief human capital officer

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Briefs

TSP still struggling; AFGE sues over A-76

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Taking on a thorny issue

Profile: Industry veteran Ronald Jost tackles wireless communications policies for DOD