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Training managers online
A new contract for Webbased training represents several firsts for NASA employees: It's the first time a single contract delivers online training agencywide, and it's NASA's first online offering that includes career development as well as technical skills.
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Debugging Telework
'If I can't see them, how do I know they're working?' is a common reaction to the idea of telecommuting among agency managers (indeed, among managers everywhere).
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For Success, the Top-Down Approach Isn't Enough
To build an e-government, you need e-workers. That is the simple premise of an ambitious proposal put forward last month by U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).
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Performance is agency's trademark
Work force- and technology- related changes at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appear to have broad support since USPTO officially became a performance-based organization (PBO) in March.
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E-recruitment
For many agencies, the next generation of IT leaders is already toiling among their ranks, but with the projected exodus of IT workers during the next five years, other agencies will need to attract new talent.
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Juggling act
For years now, as the government payroll has gotten smaller, federal agencies have been told they must learn to use technology to 'do more with less.' In the coming years, doing more with less likely will mean outsourcing some IT projects altogether, which creates a new set of management problems.
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The right stuff
Government is entering a new era in which information technology will transform the way it works. But who will lead the charge?
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Recipe for PBO
Agencies with operations that do not have clear, measurable results are not suited to become performance-based organizations.
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Bringing outsourcing back home
Agencies are finding that the outsourcing of information technology projects is not a panacea. In fact, insourcing the decision to move projects inhouse is picking up the slack when outsourcing fail, according to industry experts.
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Fixes not so tough, disabled say
The good news about complying with Section 508 is that many fixes although they will have some cost are relatively easy to make, especially when systems are still under development.
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DTS test flight ready
An early version of the Defense Travel System that will be available to selected personnel this summer won't be connected to the system's central database or Defense Department accounting systems, but it will bring DOD one step closer to automating its travel operation.
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Networking at NSF
Leaders at the National Science Foundation have decided that the best way to support research and technological development at universities nationwide is to apply information technology at home.
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Features of the Saba Learning Network Solution
Sets skill and certification requirements for each role in the organization.
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Research and Development in the FastLane
By October, the National Science Foundation hopes to have all of its research proposals submitted and processed electronically through a system called FastLane.
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Don't pounce on failures
When NASA's budget came under pressure in the 1990s as part of efforts to balance the federal budget, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin did what few in Washington do: He accepted cuts without protest, wishing to challenge his organization to take a risk and show it could produce better results at less cost. Thus was born the 'faster, better, cheaper' regime.
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Education's early groundwork
Three years before the Access Board drew up its accessibility standards, the Education Department had created similar ones through the Assistive Technology Program, which provides services and technology to the department's disabled employees.
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