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Grand Rapids Media Center

At Grand Rapids, Mich.'s hightech Community Media Center, apple pickers' children produce short films on 'Breaking the Cycle of Migrant Workers,' area residents design World Wide Web pages, and nonprofit groups receive technical training.

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GAO Hosts Welfare Reform Workshop

GAO Hosts Welfare Reform Workshop

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Training the IT Work Force From the Ground Up

Faster, flatter, friendlier.' That's how Mobile Ala. Mayor Michael Dow sees the city's government in the 21st century.

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IRS, Customs look for common HR system

The Internal Revenue Service and the Customs Service are exploring whether they can integrate their multiple human resources systems into one platform using commercial offtheshelf technology.

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Air Force taps uncommon officer

As a rule second lieutenants don't end up in charge of much of anything especially projects visible to anyone higher than a major. But the Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG) tapped 2nd Lt. Chad Lynch to run its most visible event of the year: the annual Air Force Information Technology (AFIT)

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Listings highlight `plum' positions

If you think the transition to the second Clinton administration and its attendant personnel shuffling makes this a good time to try a career move check out the new "Policy and Supporting Positions" listing better known as the "plum book." This quadrennial summary of political and other nonco

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Col. Otis Ferguson took over as chief of the Army Space Command Colorado Springs Col. Ferguson who previously served as deputy commander for the Space Command's Theater Missile Defense Element succeeded Col. Bill MacArthur who retired. Col. Teddy Bitner replaced Ferguson as commander of the Theater

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NIH to offer training

The National Institutes of Health next week plans to launch a training course in recent procurement and information technology management reforms that it expects will eventually be open to students from throughout the government and from industry. Jefferson Solutions LLC a subcontractor to Cordant

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Feeling at home at the Pentagon

Not many people can claim to have landed the ultimate job perfectly geared to their interests. Anita K. Jones director of Defense research and engineering can. 'If you are interested in science and technology policy if you want to make a difference at that level in the U.S. this is the best job

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Union: Make ID standards public

Concerns about proposed standards for federal employee ID cards have the president of the National Treasury Employees Union to request wider discussion.

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Cisco-trained reservists graduate

At Fort Meade, the first class of students trained in Cisco Systems networking graduated

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Barr leaving IRS for Dell

Robert Barr, who helped fastforward the Internal Revenue Service into the Information Age, is leaving government to join Dell

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DOD guns for green on scorecard

Official says department is making progress on the President's Management Agenda

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Input sees growth in outsourcing

The market research firm predicts that federal spending on IT outsourcing will rise 55 percent over the next five years.

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Air Force to announce portal

Initiative will integrate more than 28,000 information systems and help service members cut through red tape to get the information they need to do their jobs

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Centralizing clearances

The intelligence reform bill puts all federal security clearances under one agency that would develop a national database for them.