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DHS shares privacy expertise in new handbook

The document describes how the agency protects privacy, including training and dealing with personal information. DHS tracks all privacy breaches in a secure online database.

Tags: management , DHS , CIO Council , privacy ,

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GAO finds limited burrowing during Bush years

Auditors looked at 117 employee conversations to career positions from political ones and found most followed the rules. OPM is reviewing five of the seven that GAO determined to be improper.

Tags: management , GAO , OPM , VA , DoJ , Air Force , Marshals Service , Office of Special Counsel , burrowing , political position conversions ,

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OPM shaping future leaders in a new way

The first graduates of a new leadership training program run by the Office of Personnel Management received their certificates yesterday. They are, as OPM Director John Berry describes them, the "tip of the spear" of a cadre of up-and-coming federal workers who are honing their leadership skills to be the next generation of agency leaders and executives who will run the government.

Tags: management , pay and benefits , OPM , John Berry , LEAD program , training , Kay Ely , Walter Kennedy , Edward Melton , DoD , Max Cacas ,

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Industry group encourages DoD to use GSA

Coalition for Government Procurement sends a letter to DoD Secretary Gates asking him to stop the military from developing new contracts.

Tags: contracting , Robert Gates , DoD , GSA , Coalition for Government Procurement , multiple award contracts ,

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Military attacks mental health stigmas

Fighting stigma key to reducing solider suicides, military leaders say

Tags: management , technology , suicide prevention , Peter Chiarelli , Robert Jesse , James Amos , VA , Jonathan Greenert , PTSD , TBI

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Geographic information systems increase participation

Technology allows public to interact more with government.

Tags: technology , geographic information systems , Sukumar Ganapati , Florida International University , crowdsourcing , DorobekInsider ,

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Education Department launches open government tool

Data.edu.gov is part of the Obama Administration's Open Government Initiative.

Tags: technology , management , open government , Education , Gov 2.0 , Web 2.0

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DHS women convene inaugural diversity forum

Women who work for the federal government, like their private sector counterparts, face unique challenges in balancing their personal lives with their careers. For the first time in its 6-year history, the Department of Homeland Security convened a diversity forum designed to give agency women an opportunity to discuss common challenges.

Tags: management , pay and benefits , DHS , Vicki Brooks , CHCO , White House Council on Women and Girls , Barack Obama , Max Cacas ,

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NIH faces economic strains in 2011

NIH director Dr. Francis Collins testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health yesterday that the immediate future could be difficult because of poor economic conditions and stimulus funds running dry.

Tags: NIH , Francis Collins , House Energy and Commerce Committee , Congress

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Air Force saves cash by changing cell phone rate plans

The Air Force plans to save millions of dollars by changing the rate plans for thousands of its cell phone accounts.

Tags: Peter Orszag , OMB , Air Force , cell phones , rate plans , DoD ,

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