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'Health eVet' on horizon
Keeping track of medical records as you move from place to place can be a problem especially for veterans whose health care needs often are greater than those of the general population.
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Leadership R&D
National Science Foundation officials said that a national coordinating organization that helps it manage the multiagency Information Technology Research and Development Initiative serves as a model for managing future interagency projects and provides justification for its increased budget request.
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'Always faithful' at the office
Every organization needs a mission statement, a set of core values and alist of guiding principles that keep all of its component parts moving inthe same direction.
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Agencies want FAIR feedback
New guidance put out by the Office of Management and Budget may not produce much of an improvement on the first round of agencygenerated lists of activities that could be performed by the private sector
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Officials mull future of Trail Boss
Government contracting officials are considering ways to use the nowdiscontinued Trail Boss contracting training program to provide management and security training for nextgeneration agency IT staff
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Air Force's Kirkland named 'Trail Boss of the Year'
The 900member Trail Boss Interagency Committee on Tuesday named Air Force tech officer Susan Kirkland its 2000 Trail Boss of the Year for her work building the Air Force's Cargo Movement Operations System.
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CIOs: Going the way of the dinosaur?
Top management is looking for someone well-versed in business strategies as well as technology architectures
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Work force tops CIOs' worries
Information technology staffing remains a top concern among government chief information officers, according to a recent survey. But that does not mean CIOs are ready to turn their work over to private contractors.
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IT pay study will cost agencies
The CIO Council wants agencies to help pay for a study of compensation in the information technology work force.
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To feds' good health
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking for funding to beef up efforts to ensure the safety and health of federal workers.
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Flexing in the face of competition
Changes to how agencies recruit and retain workers are essential if the government is to remain competitive, congressional and agency officials said last week.
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Defining e-government
Do you think about your refrigerator and consider it "technology"? Of course not.
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Renting may solve federal IT woes
Application service providers companies that rent out computer applications and services, and sometimes the machines themselves are an option government agencies should
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Telecommuting incentive sought
A Virginia congressman has asked the president to sign a new executive order to expand the use of telecommuting for federal workers in the Washington, D.C., area
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VA's CIO leaving for private sector
Harold Gracey, the acting chief information officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, is retiring June 1 following a 30year government career
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Flexibility, funds wanted for work force
Greater flexibility and a bigger budget to recruit and retain IT workers will make it easier to find and keep the right people in today's tight labor market, a Senate subcommittee was told
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