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Aug 06, 2007

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I love my agency
FCW's survey of best agencies for information technology employees shows that many feds maintain a sense of idealism, even when faced with perennial workplace challenges

FCW Webcasts: How to make IT workers happy

[email protected]: Computers rule
The transformation of the federal workforce in the past 20 years has followed the ascendancy of the computer from a clerical device to a sophisticated tool used in every aspect of government operations

Check out this blast from the past: "Web extra: Thinker, Sailor, Soldier, Scribe."

Voinovich: The worforce senator
George Voinovich has raised the profile of federal workforce issues and earned the respect of union leaders whose views often differ from his

NEWS

Buzz of the Week

Security initiatives start to converge
Many in the federal IT community see greater emphasis on operational assurance

GSA: Alliant has everything

OPM lobbies for workforce fix

Circuit

Find a complete list of the 2005 and 2006 National Medal of Technology and National Medal of Science laureates.

COMMENT

Editorial: Time for a fresh start
Few people think the government's General Schedule pay system works well

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Letters to the editor

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Welles: Getting away

Read more by Judy Welles on the Get a Life! blog.

Wilsker: Work by any other name

MANAGEMENT

Executive decision ends impasse
Agreement reached on union election will let GAO get back to business

TECHNOLOGY

How many copies do you need?
Data deduplication wipes redundant data so you can reclaim storage and backup time

Read technology briefs on GCN.com.

PROCUREMENT

Have contracting skills, will travel
House lawmakers want to send 600 GSA contracting employees to DOD

Feds promise states $1 billion

POLICY

OMB intends to measure to the end
President’s lame-duck status will not prevent officials from keeping score on agencies

Read about OMB’s criteria for rating agencies on health IT initiatives (.pdf).

9/11 bill plugs holes

Internal checkbooks out of balance

Pentagon tests IT portfolio approach

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Budget

House passes stopgap spending bill

The current appropriations bills are set to expire on Oct. 1; the bill now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass.
Defense

What to look for in DOD's coming spectrum strategy

Interoperability, integration and JADC2 are likely to figure into an updated electromagnetic spectrum strategy expected soon from the Department of Defense.