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Census asks employees to grade themselves to cut costs

Agency leaders hope employees will help the Census Bureau fill critical workforce skills gaps. The self-assessments are aimed at upgrading the way workers collect, process and analyze data about the U.S. ahead of the 2020 census.

Tags: Census Bureau , Nancy Potok , workforce , management , Ruben Gomez

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Census testing online data collection to prepare for 2020

Census Bureau CIO Brian McGrath said the agency is conducting 60 American Community Surveys online. Census also wants offices to virtualize all applications unless they can justify why it wouldn't work.
May 11, 2011

Tags: Census , CIO , Brian McGrath , cloud computing , virtualization , telework , data center consolidation , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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Locke: Commerce cashes in on principles

Census 2010 goes from "most likely to fail" to $1.6 billion in the black. Federal News Radio talks with the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, Gary Locke, about the turnaround and what's on the horizon for the department.

Tags: 2010 census , Gary Locke , Commerce , Federal Drive , Suzanne Kubota , National Export Initiative

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Groves ponders agile software for 2020 Census

The Census Bureau is ready to apply lessons learned from the 2010 population count to the next one in 2020. It's laying the groundwork to move away from large, troublesome, monolithic technology systems.

Tags: technology , Census Bureau , Robert Groves , 2010 census , Interimage , Leslie Steele , agile development , Max Cacas

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