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Downsizing, Relocations, Benefit Reductions Up Next?

If you want a preview of coming attractions in your own agency, check out what is happening in the giant US Postal Service. It is looking at a major cutback of administrative personnel, consolidating post offices and relocating employees, not to mention possible pay and benefit changes. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you could be next.

Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey , USPS , pay rates , pension , downsizing , Interior , GSA , SSA , High-3

Wednesday - 01/19/2011, 04:00am EST

Trusted ID strategy distrusted by some

An internet ID for Americans would be different from a national ID card... or would it?

Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Gary Locke , Howard Schmidt

Monday - 01/10/2011, 08:30am EST

Commerce says a privacy office is needed

The Commerce Department recommended forming the office as part of a framework for ensuring online data privacy.

Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , management , FTC , technology

Friday - 12/17/2010, 09:30am EST

Commerce's international data at risk

A World Privacy Forum points to indifference and neglect at the Commerce Department when it comes to international data privacy.

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , World Privacy Forum , privacy , data , Dorobek Insider

Monday - 11/22/2010, 03:30pm EST

White House launches Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy

White House launches Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy to both promote online economic opportunities and protect individual privacy.

Tags: White House , Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy , technology , privacy , Internet , cybersecurity , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , DoJ

Monday - 10/25/2010, 02:15pm EDT

Fire closes Commerce's Hoover Building

A fire at the U.S. Department of Commerce has shut down the Hoover Building in D.C.. Construction workers had been doing asbestos abatement when the fire started in a storage room. Crews were able to quickly put out the fire but employees are being encouraged to take administrative leave or telework.

Tags: management , pay and benefits , DoC , COOP , Amy Morris

Friday - 10/08/2010, 07:02am EDT

OMB, CIO Council issues new IPv6 guidance

Agencies must make their data networks compliant with the IPv6 protocol now. The government and private industry face a looming crisis as Internet addresses defined by an increasingly dated technical protocol run out, possibly as early as next year. Agencies must first upgrade external servers to run the new protocol.

Tags: technology , IPv6 , OMB , Vivek Kundra , Larry Strickling , NTIA , American Registry for Internet Numbers , Pete Tseronis , Energy , DoD , Ron Broersma , CIO Council , Max Cacas

Tuesday - 09/28/2010, 11:13am EDT
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Commerce's Locke promises changes

A new advisory council will provide Commerce and other agencies with ideas for how the government can help push federally-funded technologies into the commercial marketplace. Locke said his agency will do its part by speeding up the patent process to one year and get certain grant funding out in 30 days. Commerce also is working with NIH and NSF on the i6 Challenge where $12 million is available for companies to commercialize technologies.

Tags: technology , Gary Locke , Aneesh Chopra , Rahm Emanuel , Ginger Lew , White House , National Economic Council , National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrep , NIH , NSF , PTO , Mike Morse , Mike Crow , Tom Albert , Holden Thorp , Steve Case , Mary Sue Coleman , University of North Carolina , AOL , University of Michigan , Madrona Venture Group , Arizona State University , innovation , i6 Competition , entrepreneurship , Jason Miller

Wednesday - 09/08/2010, 07:24am EDT
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