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If you are part of a couple that both works for the government, or if one of you is retired and one still working, does it matter who buys the health insurance? Short answer: Yes, it matters a lot, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
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Host Mike Causey is joined by Walton Francis, editor of the Washington Consumers Checkbook Guide to Federal Health Plans. They will talk about what to look for when choosing a health care plan. November 30, 2011
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The Defense Department\'s new strategic management plan includes changes to the department\'s previous business goals, as well as new areas DoD plans to focus on in the coming year.
November 30, 2011 -
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Senate Republicans are proposing an extension of the federal pay freeze in order to pay for a continuation of a payroll tax cut favored by congressional Democrats and the White House. The proposal, which was assailed by some Democrats and federal employee unions, also includes a provision to cut 10 percent of the federal workforce — or about 200,000 positions.
November 30, 2011 -
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Two recent cyber incidents hightlight the real threat that cyber attacks can have, Vance Taylor, a partner Catalyst said. He penned a blog post on SecurityDebrief.com calling the most recent of these a \"stark reminder.\"
November 30, 2011 -
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Your password might not be as secure as you think. Do these passwords sound familiar: \"123456,\" \"password\" and \"monkey.\" Those are just a few of the 25 worst passwords according to Splash Data.
November 30, 2011 -
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Steve Kelman, a professor of public management at Harvard University\'s Kennedy School of Government and the former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said in an in interview on In Depth with Francis Rose that agencies should consider a range of options to find contracting savings. His own list of cost-savings tips runs the gamut from \"Nobody\'s ever done this,\" to \"So old, it\'s new again.\"
November 30, 2011 -
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This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government\" Campaign for America\'s Future Co-director Roger Hickey discusses efforts to extend the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits and the impact on the middle class. Dan Roam, author of \"Blah, Blah, Blah: What to do When Words Don\'t Work,\" and Hooks Book Events President Perry Pidgeon Hooks also appear from the recent Excellence in Government Conference.
November 30, 2011 -
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DISA wants improve its enterprise information visibility for the department\'s 15,000 unclassified networks by creating an Enterprise Information Web. The semantic Web will allow data to be more easily shared and reused across the department.
November 30, 2011 -
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Unions, management associations and agencies will continue to meet through September 2013 to discuss issues from employee evaluations to bargaining over office space and technology. President Barack Obama signed an executive order extending the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, the President\'s Management Advisory Board and seven other advisory committees.
November 30, 2011 -
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Walton Francis is the editor of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees.
November 30, 2011 -
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Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House today would allow the federal government to share classified cybersecurity threat information with private companies.
November 30, 2011 -
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How exactly does an agency store a tweet? And how do agencies know when the latest 140-character mini-message rises to the level of a permanently valuable historical record? A new Presidential memo tasks the National Archives and Records Administration with answer these social-media stumpers.
November 30, 2011 -
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Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he\'s disappointed in the supercommittee\'s failure to reach a deal, and he called the looming automatic cuts launched by the sequester \"draconian.\" If the deepest cuts are enacted — about 8 to 9 percent in cuts to annual agency budgets — feds should prepare for the worst, he said.
November 30, 2011
