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- Sequestration, budget cuts taking its toll on DoD
- Small companies won't feel effect of lowered contractor pay cap
- GSA trying innovative approaches to disposing of real property
- IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses
- VA identifying project managers, then improving their skills
- OMB sets new deadlines to improve data on USASpending.gov
- As VA works to eliminate one backlog, one more might emerge
- BRAC-like commission proposed to hunt down government cost savings
- Sequestration claims another conference: DHS' GFirst cyber event
- Postal Service closing Capitol Hill post offices in 'symbolic' move
- Senators seek cost cuts for F-35 fighter jet
- Fed pens new furlough song
- Web guru Dorris brings new life to government websites
- EPA CIO Jackson returning to private sector
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- NSA leak case gives vendors reason to reevaluate personnel
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
Verizon and Secret Service team up for cybersecurity
Learn more in today's cybersecurity update.
Justice sues Oracle, claiming fraud
A major federal contractor is on the hot seat.
ThinkUp: New ideas
A new, free installable web application lets collects and organizes replies to your conversations on Twitter, Facebook and other networks.
GSA SLAMs IT
The General Services Administration has taken an 18 month timeline, and compressed it into about eight weeks.
Forecasters expect world population to reach 7 billion next year
With 267 people being born every minute and only 108 dying, developing countries are adding more than 80 million people to the world's population every year.
Government departments spend £6m on search engines
U.K. government departments want to make sure their websites appear on search engine results pages.
Pentagon returns Wikileaks suspect to U.S.
The suspect was returned to the United States from a base in Kuwait Thursday.
Industry wants changes in DoD contract reforms
Specifically, Industry is focusing on the transition of contracted work to federal employees, and restrictions on what criteria are used in contract awards.
Budget office nominee received huge Citigroup bonus
Records reveal a huge Citigroup payout to the man President Obama wants to head the Office of Management and Budget.
Craigslist creator tries to bring transparency initiative out of the shadows
The Craigslist founder laments that the White House's open government initiative hasn't received much attention.
GSA schedules: Are agencies paying too much?
Columnist Steve Kelman offers his insight.
What should President Obama read?
Slate readers make suggestions for the president's summer reading list.
NIH providing satisfaction on the web
Four federal websites meet or exceed the private sector's highest score. How? Why? We ask Joyce Backus at NIH.
NARA declassification chief tackles backlog
For years, a huge backlog of government agency documents in need of declassification has piled up at the National Archives and Records Administration. Now, however, a woman whose name is familiar in the federal declassification community is on board at NARA, taking the first steps toward whittling away at that backlog of 410 million pages of documents by a seemingly impossible deadline set in the law.
How Defense feds prepare for deployment
The CEW is a workforce of Department of Defense civilians trained and equipped to deploy oversees in support of worldwide military missions. We learn more about it from Frank DiGiovanni, the Acting Director of Readiness and Training Policy and Programs at Defense.
DHS delivers job offers on gas pumps, pizza boxes
The Transportation Security Administration is hiring, according to some D.C. pizza boxes.
Fighting the Federal Career Internship Program (FCIP)
Calling for an end to the FCIP? This week, host Derrick T. Dortch talks with Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley.
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Disabled vets see increase in job opportunities
An upcoming virtual career fair for disabled vets.
China: A land of contradictions?
That's what one Harvard Professor calls China.
