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Reform scores big with feds
Federal employees' overall job satisfaction is on a par with privatesector workers but is particularly strong among feds who work for agencies that have made 'reinventing government' a priority, according to the results of a new federal employee survey released last week.
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Feds feel job satisfaction
A survey shows that federal employees are especially happy in offices where reinvention is a priority
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'Accessibility' standards released
They're here: The longawaited proposed 'accessibility' standards for information technology bought by federal agencies
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Report: Keep NTIS open ? for now
The Commerce Department should keep its National Technical Information Service open at least for the shortterm a report released this month recommended to Congress and the administration
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Figuring taxes on your mutual fund sales
Figuring your tax bill on mutual fund sales is not an easy undertaking. That's because you probably have purchased shares at different times for different amounts.
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10 skills federal Webmasters need
If I were asked what one article I would want to send to every Webmaster in the federal government, it would be this one.
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NASA restructures Mars management
Announcement comes after a report blames software problems and inexperienced project management for the loss of the Mars Polar Lander
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Alan Balutis heads to NIST
Commerce deputy CIO will become director of NIST's Advanced Technology Program
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FTS fills IT posts
GSA's Federal Technology Service continues filling positions, including naming Charles Self as the new FTS deputy commissioner
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DOE seeking IT quartet
The Energy Department is in the market for a package deal of four top information technology specialists, including the newly created job of cybersecurity chief
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Grant to train unemployed for IT
A Department of Labor grant will help workers in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia
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System Administrator
The pace of development in information technology has so altered the security landscape that training has become a matter of survival, according to the Army's chief information officer.
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When travel pay falls short
An Agriculture Department employee who took a sick day while traveling on business in Chicago found that he had to wage a legal battle to recoup his per diem expenses for that day off.
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Security survival training
The pace of development in information technology has so altered the security landscape that training has become a matter of survival, according to the Army's chief information officer.
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Carrying on a family's public service tradition
The family history of K. Adair Martinez is full of people in military and public service, so it seems natural that she is eagerly taking on the job of chief information officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Benefits Administration.
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Magnificent Discretion
The pace of development in information technology has so altered the security landscape that training has become a matter of survival, according to the Army's chief information officer.
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CIO czar concept gains momentum
Lawmakers last week announced support for a federal chief information officer to oversee how agencies create a digital government.
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Feds' travel made easy
Federal workers will soon have an easier, faster and cheaper way to make travel plans, when the Transportation Department begins rolling out its new World Wide Web travel site in May.
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