Transition Tools, Info Sharing, and More
The Owner’s Manual for Transition There are a lot of resources out there for Federal staff, both career and political, to help them prepare for the transition...
The Owner’s Manual for Transition
There are a lot of resources out there for Federal staff, both career and political, to help them prepare for the transition to a new administration. The IBM Center for the Business of Government is now offering two books and a blog for people who are moving into the government from the outside. The Center’s Executive Director, Jonathan Breul, told me about these resources.
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Info Sharing 101
Successful information sharing is always a partnership between the sharers. One high-profile example of two agencies collaborating to open the info flow is the work of the Pentagon and VA to share access to patient medical records. We learned about the DoD end of that partnership from Dr. Stephen Jones, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, and Chuck Campbell, the Pentagon’s Chief Information Officer for the Military Health System.
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Retirement Woes & Solutions
The crisis in the financial markets has impacted retirement for just about everyone. The House Education and Labor Committee took a close look at potential policy solutions at a hearing yesterday. Among the witnesses testifying were Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag and Jack VanDerhei, Research Director at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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Keeping the Foreign Service Healthy
The State Department says they’ve filled their needs for diplomats to go to Iraq and Afghanistan for 2009, but there are still workforce challenges in the diplomatic corps. The President of the American Foreign Service Association, John Naland, talked about those challenges, including pay differentials, language training, and building a career in foreign service.
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