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DoD wants ethics certifications from vendors

Proposed rule would require companies who bid on Defense contracts to certify that any former DoD officials who work for them are in compliance with post-employment ethics rules.

Tags: DoD , contracting , industry , regulations , Procurement Integrity Act , Jared Serbu

Monday - 06/06/2011, 07:50pm EDT

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DoD may require contractors to display hotline poster

The Defense Department is proposing a rule that requires contractors to display the DoD fraud hotline poster in common work areas.

Tags: DoD , contracting , hotline

Friday - 03/11/2011, 01:35pm EST

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SAVE Award winner presents President with idea

Trudy Givens, who works at the Bureau of Prisons in Wisconsin, received more than 20,000 votes for her suggestion to stop printing and mailing the Federal Register to employees. She won the 2010 SAVE Award and talked to President Obama about it Friday.

Tags: management , Jack Lew , Trudy Givens , OMB , Bureau of Prisons , SAVE Award , Jason Miller

Monday - 01/31/2011, 07:17am EST

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OMB appoints plain language working group

The administration issued a new memo to help agencies implement the Plan Writing Act. Agencies have a set of deadlines to meet over the next year as part of the law.

Tags: management , Cass Sunstein , Amy Bunk , Kathryn Catania , OMB , OIRA , DHS , Plan Writing Act , Plain Language Action and Information Network , Jason Miller

Tuesday - 11/23/2010, 02:44pm EST

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SAVE Award winner cuts printing, postage costs

Trudy Givens, of Portage, Wisc., beat out more than 18,000 with her idea for an "opt-in" option for hard copies of the Federal Register.

Tags: Trudy Givens , Bureau of Prisons , SAVE Award , White House , Barack Obama , Jolie Lee , budget , innovation ,

Monday - 11/15/2010, 04:44pm EST

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New Federal Register website opens info to public

One of the creators of the site explains why his company did what it did.

Tags: technology , Bob Burbach , WestEd Interactive , GPO , Office of the Federal Register , Dorothy Ramienski , Gov 2.0 , DorobekInsider

Tuesday - 07/27/2010, 02:35pm EDT

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Federal Register set to unveil extreme makeover

Just in time for its 75th anniversary in a little more than 10 days, the Federal Register is set to unveil an entirely new look -- online. And in keeping with the Obama Administration's emphasis on the Open Government Initiative, and using the tools of social collaboration, the new FederalRegister.gov is expected to be the result of wider citizen participation.

Tags: management , technology , NARA , David Ferriero , Mike White , Ray Mosley , WestEd Interactive , Sunlight Foundation , GPO , Max Cacas ,

Friday - 07/16/2010, 07:09am EDT

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