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- Furlough Friday: Multiple agencies take advantage of holiday weekend
- New mobile tools gives agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'
- VA chipping away at oldest disability claims in backlog
- Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations
- Data breach puts DHS employees at risk of ID theft
- What's the latest on phased retirement?
- IRS replaces official in Tea Party controversy
- Commerce nominee sails through hearing
- Obama nominates Archuleta as next OPM director
- FedRAMP achieves another cloud security milestone
- Tangherlini to be nominated as permanent GSA chief
- House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
- OMB reworking financial system requirements
- Federal retirement funds temporarily tapped
- Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal finalists
- Thursday federal headlines - May 23, 2013
SAVE Awards - round 2
President Obama is asking workers on the frontlines to take a hard look again and to share their ideas and insight at SAVEAward.gov.
Measuring employees when they aren't at work
What is OPM trying to find out?
Manager buy-in remains the biggest telework challenge
Experts say nothing will matter unless agency managers buy-in to the idea that telework is an operational advantage.
Analysis: DHS's acquisitions reform process
Does it measure up?
Mobile access helps agencies break past digital divide
Mobile phones may be the answer to linking federal agencies with the public.
Federal cybersecurity depends on private sector
WFED's Jason Miller
V.A. is easing rules to cover stress disorder
The government is preparing to issue new rules that will make it substantially easier for veterans who have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability benefits.
Are deadbeat U.S. contractors fueling the insurgency in AFG?
Several U.S. firms have not paid Afghan subcontractors for work those employees did in Afghanistan
Massachusetts: The Why of social media
Some ask why Massachusetts is focusing on social media. The short answer: because it works.
Gates to hold a DoD budget powwow
The meeting will focus on Gates's push for savings across the DoD.
NPS IT team brings home the gold
The Alaska National Park Service IT/radio team has received the Alaska Federal Executive Association 2009 Civilian Team of the Year Award on the basis of cost savings to the government by means of technology. We learn more from NPS's Alaska region CIO, Dan Healey.
DHS wants trained cybersecurity workers ASAP
Where will they come from?
What the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ruling means to agencies
Specifically, the protection that Public Company Accounting Oversight Board members receive has been ruled unconstitutional.
TSA's Secure Flight program faces some challenges
The new program requires 100 percent terrorist watchlist matching.
VA innovates innovation ideas
Winners have been announced in the most recent effort under the VA's Innovation Initiative, a department-wide program that brings the most promising innovations to VA's most important challenges by involving employees and the private sector in the creation of visionary solutions in service to Veterans. VA CTO Dr. Peter Levin has details.
DHS requires agencies to provide network monitoring data
Learn more in today's cybersecurity update.
OMB redefines performance expectations
As the President implements his policies and programs, federal executives recognize the continuing challenges ahead to deliver on results for the American people. OMB's Shelley Metzenbaum tells us more about the administration's perspectives and expectations for agency and executive performance.
Is blaming the MMS really fair?
WFED's Mike Causey reports.
DLA and FEMA prepare for hurricane season
Federal emergency responders can expect prompt and well-rehearsed reaction from the Defense Logistics Agency when providing disaster relief during this year's hurricane season, which runs June 1 through Nov. 30. DLA's Aaron Geduldig explains.
