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- Congress pressures agencies to consolidate office space
- Katherine Archuleta chosen as next OPM director
- Data breach puts DHS workers at risk of identity theft
- DoD chooses interoperability over integration for new e-health system
- House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
- OMB fuels synergy between mobile, open data
- IRS official Lerner: 'I did nothing wrong'
- Accountability breakdown leading factor in DoD sexual assaults
- OMB reworking financial system requirements
- Federal retirement funds temporarily tapped
- VanRoekel to lead OMB management team
- Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal finalists
- Thursday federal headlines - May 23, 2013
Your Cost Effective Government Network
The Federal Broadband Minute, provided by Hughes. "Can your network save your agency money and still deliver bandwidth efficient service?" The answer is yes and the savings are at the field office. Here's how: don't pay for high cost, dedicated access lines and MPLS ports for field office connectivity. Instead, call Hughes and get an affordable managed broadband service the benefits are huge. By replacing costly special access with affordable broadband, Hughes can save your agency up to $300 per month, per site multiply that by all your field offices and see the savings take off. Or…maybe you think your network should provide better service for the cost of what you already pay. Whether it's more savings or better quality, Hughes' National Managed Broadband Service is the answer. And get a path diverse, back up solution for the same price as your primary network alone. Enable your government field office of the future from Hughes.
OPM: Tips to meet June 7 telework deadline
The Office of Personnel Management has produced guidelines for implementing a policy for telework. The guide outlines expectations of teleworkers and reminds agencies of the June 7 deadline to finalize their policies.
Your Bandwidth Efficient Government Network
The Federal Broadband Minute, provided by Hughes. "How much bandwidth is needed for field offices to meet their agency missions?" The answer? It depends on your mission and your network one size does not fit all. Too little at some sites may mean you can't run critical bandwidth-hungry applications. Too much at others means you're wasting tax dollars. You need to tailor bandwidth requirements at each location to ensure your network achieves your agency's mission. Only Hughes national managed broadband service delivers bandwidth tailored-to-fit at every site, affordably to quickly access voice, video and data for daily operations, or to reach your agency's cloud. Hughes technology includes built in WAN Optimization, ensuring high quality voice and data traffic is delivered on-time, and with optimal bandwidth efficiency. Enable your government field office of the future today from Hughes.
Your Government Network
The Federal Broadband Minute, provided by Hughes. If your agency's communications network was tailored to your needs, what would it look like? Would your small and medium-sized field offices connect to the cloud and run applications with optimal bandwidth efficiency? Would your ideal network be cost effective, and able to leverage the benefits of GSA programs? Would it provide path-diverse communications that support COOP for the same price as your primary network service? And with your network, would you have confidence in secure connectivity, especially for teleworkers? Say yes to all these questions and meet the government field office of the future today from Hughes. With decades of experience and a comprehensive suite of solutions and partners, Hughes is able to deliver agencies a powerful, national managed broadband service providing voice, video, and data where, when, and how you need it.
Where have all the PCs gone?
Teleworkers may have the Apple picked for them.
DISA's telework helps take a bite out of BRAC
Reducing traffic at Fort Meade relies on telework.
USDA telework apps allow farmers to be out standing in their field
One federal agency is working on apps so stakeholders can telework along side employees.
When mobile workers telework
If a mobile worker is teleworking, does that mean they're in the office?
Telework tax credit introduced
One thousand dollars may be waiting for teleworkers someday, if some DC area congressmen have their say.
The lighter side of the dark side of telework
A noted technology author says your spouse hates telework.
Bring your own telework tools
The federal government could soon pay a $2,000 subsidy to federal employees who buy their own mobile devices.
OPM gives feds options for early dismissal
In response to recent weather-related dismissals and delays, OPM is offering employees choices when it comes to taking leave.
Telework and Virtualization
Federal agencies are working to provide a complete, secure computing experience to enable employees to ‘work from a distance', or, telework. With VMware, agency-standard PC clients can be quickly provisioned, deployed and managed from the datacenter. Agency personnel can securely access familiar resources through government furnished equipment OR their own PCs. Our customers have saved up to 45% on desktop computing costs, increased employee job satisfaction and reduced the environmental impact from all those commuters. If your agency wants to securely enable telework - or just save money, VMware desktop virtualization is your answer.
When NOT to telework
During a Shutdown: non-essential teleworkers unplug!
Survey, law grow telework optimism
OPM reports a rise in teleworking from 2008 - 2009. The survey shows satisfaction among feds who do telework, but reveals barriers that are keeping others from doing so. One Congressman hopes the new law will turn interest in telework into practice.
Teleworkers feel more connected than the deskbound
Teleworkers report higher job satisfaction in surveys. We learn about and unexpected reason why.
Telework in government: Benefit or impediment?
Tim McManus of the Partnership for Public Service discusses the state of telework in the federal government.
Increased telework to ease D.C. area traffic
Roads in the WTOP listening area, recently classified as the country's most congested, may see some relief in the coming months as more federal workers plan to stay at home.
OPM: Agencies add teleworkers
More federal employees are teleworking, according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Six ingredients to telework success
Ron Sanders, formerly with the intelligence community, explains the challenges to telework and how to overcome them.
