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- SES bonuses under fire at GSA, other agencies
- VA's Gould moves the needle on VA challenges
- Obama appoints Danny Werfel acting IRS head
- Photo Gallery: Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal Finalists
- Next-gen Apple devices cleared to join Defense IT networks
- In fight over intelligence IT system, Army prioritizes access to data
- White House wants to root out copycat programs - starting with STEM
- Pentagon furloughs to begin July 8
- Causey: Don't work or we'll fire you!
- House bill protects homeland security budget
- Intelligence Community free from furloughs
- DoD aims to speed approval process for mobile devices
- OMB fuels the passion, synergy between mobile, open data
- GAO, OMB spar over whether to measure data center cost savings
- Agencies craving STEMM talent should bolster skills of persuasion
- DoD wants to know real costs of IT business systems
Platts calls for more controls over improper payments
The chairman of the subcommittee on federal financial management said legislation may be needed to ensure agency accounting procedures are focusing on stopping improper payments. He said progress across the government is good, but more tools are necessary. OMB is testing the Do Not Pay List and plans to launch the full portal in 2012.
VA IG responds to criticisms in Martinez case
The agency IG wrote a letter to the attorneys for Adair Martinez saying they overstated or misstated the facts about their investigation. George Opfer said his investigators followed protocol during discovery of the allegations of fraud and misconduct by Martinez in their August 2009 report. The MSPB ruled earlier this month that Martinez didn't receive due process and was wrongfully terminated.
Shutdown Survival Kit
Given the nonperformance of Congress, federal workers better learn to live with furlough threats. So whether we dodge the bullet or not this time, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has a checklist you should clip and save...for the next time.
Shutdown would challenge vets too
Not everything will remain normal for veterans seeking help.
MSPB rules VA violated former employee's constitutional rights
A Merit Systems Protection Board judge ruled that Adair Martinez was wrongfully fired by the Veterans Affairs Department, and the agency violated her 5th amendment rights.
VA's VistA e-health record system moves to open source
The Department of Veterans is moving its electronic health record system to the open source community.
Data breaches at VA expose sensitive information
Two separate incidents at Veterans Affairs result in credit protection services for 1,600 vets
VA to offer protection to some vets after data loss
The monthly data breach report from the Veterans Affairs shows risks due to human error are not as bad as they could be.
Navy's Wounded Warrior program boosts vet hiring
The Naval Sea Systems Command received the ERE Recruiting Excellence Award for Best Military Talent program for its Wounded Warrior hiring program.
GAO: DoD and VA need to communicate more
A program designed to help severely wounded veterans get life-long care isn't working the way it should.
What the new Federal Supply Schedule means for you
David Dowd, Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, discusses the new competition requirements agencies must follow when placing orders exceeding $150,000.
March 22, 2011
Female vets frustrated with VA health care
Female veterans still face significant frustration getting medical care, even in Veterans Affairs facilities with female-specific services.
Record claims spur demand for automation at VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which processed a record one million claims in 2010, is still seeing claims come in faster than it can process them and expects even more new filings in 2011. Despite that, VA hopes to eliminate its backlog of claims by 2015.
Excellence.gov Awards: VA's Baker on IT in the budget battle
VA's Roger Baker discussed how to advance IT projects amidst uncertain budget times.
More vets working in public sector
More Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans are finding work in the public sector than ever before.
Time to update the federal CIO law?
Sen. Collins asked GAO to study the current roles and responsibilities of these senior technology managers. This would be the third such study from GAO since 1996, but first since 2005. VA's CIO Roger Baker reiterates his call to give CIOs oversight and authority of their IT budget.
Kundra pushes employee-owned mobile devices for work
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said he wants to move toward giving feds a subsidy - of say, $2,000 - to purchase their own devices to work on.
OMB turns up oversight heat with cyberstat
The administration's IT agenda for fiscal 2012 will include new tools to combat cyber threats as well as major overhauls to how agencies manage their systems. Agency CIOs say agility will be important moving forward.
OPM evaluates agency hiring of vets, disabled
OPM Deputy Director Christine Griffin has an update on the effort increase diversity at your agency.
VA CIO: centralize to increase cybersecurity
Government IT systems are at increased risk to inside and outside threats because departments lack centralized budget and operational authority over their IT systems, says Roger Baker.
