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OPM pitches IT job family
The Office of Personnel Management last week proposed a new job family for federal information technology occupations that would make it easier to recruit and retain IT workers.
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VA dispatches digital copiers
To reduce the amount of equipment that telecommuters have to lug home and maintain, the Department of Veterans Affairs is issuing home office-class multifunction printers from Hewlett-Packard Co. to employees who work from home.
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From .gov to .com
FedBid.com's Gracey finds happiness in industry after decades in government
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Seat Management: What it is and how it works
Seat management refers to outsourcing desktop computers and their related software, hardware, maintenance and help desk support.
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Back to school
The Army plans to offer its troops a broad range of distancelearning options that would provide them with college credits, degrees and professional certification.
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Exec tapped to head eFBI
The FBI has named Bob Dies assistant director to oversee the design and launch of eFBI, a recently renamed and resurrected program that will give bureau agents the ability to share and sift through data via the World Wide Web.
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Lack of embassy e-mail 'laughable'
A Florida congressman argues that risks to American interests were too great not to wire the State Department's overseas missions
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Employees suggest changes via Web
Iowa's state Web site includes a feature in which state employees can suggest ways the state can improve service
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Kellogg named to C4 post
The Pentagon announced yesterday that Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Kellogg has been selected for promotion and assignment to become the new director of C4 systems on the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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NSA finds one of its own in industry
The National Security Agency director last week nominated William Black Jr., a retired NSA employee who started a new career in the hightech industry, to become the agency's next deputy director
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Learning tech skills from scratch
To carry out the mission of Census 2000, the government had to raise and train a small army.
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Agencies tap Fed Learn's online training
The demand for technology-based education is so rampant that the Federal Technology Service launched a contractual services program to help agencies sort through the multitude of offerings.
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E-learning gets easier
For agencies setting up Internetbased distancelearning systems, the market is brimming with choices
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DOT becomes courseware carrier
Federal users have less reason every day to build their own World Wide Webbased training sites.
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Dependable systems
The central problem in information technology management has shifted. Runaway systems development projects have given way to a new central concern that of making systems dependable.
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Trusted at Treasury
Don Hagerling doesn't wear a uniform. His basement office at the Treasury Department is nonthreatening no cameras, monitors or metal detectors, not even a signin sheet for visitors.
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Workers to count on
Sharon Connelly had been unemployed for four years when she was hired as a temporary worker at the Census Bureau's Baltimore data capture center. The center is one of three temporary sites along with Phoenix, Ariz., and Pomona, Calif. established by the bureau to handle the massive amounts of information coming in from Census 2000.
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Of politics and premiums
Federal employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program are going to see their premiums rise in 2001
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