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Defense
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A possible price crunch coming to the Federal contracting world is raising eyebrows in the vendor community.
July 01, 2010 -
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The Defense Department has made it easier to access documents and information on its Web site.
July 01, 2010 -
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Many people are still wondering what General Stanley McChrystal was thinking. \"He really in meeting with him didn\'t try to explain it, he just acknowledged that he had made a terrible decision,\" said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The Rolling Stone article that will leave a black mark on his career made Admiral Mike Mullen sick when he saw it. \"He is a friend, an extraordinary officer. He made a severe mistake and I think the actions that were taken were appropriate.\"
July 01, 2010 -
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Fourteen years ago, Congress passed the landmark Clinger-Cohen Act, creating the job of chief information officer in federal agencies. How has the job changed over the years, and what do today\'s CIOs think of their role?
July 01, 2010 -
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Agency graduates first class from a training series that participants say will help them meet challenges they face on the job every day.
June 30, 2010 -
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Rob Carey is transitioning out of the CIO role and into more of an operational position where he will focus on cyber strategy and policy for all Navy networks.
June 30, 2010 -
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday he wants to trim some of the billions of dollars the Pentagon spends on weapons systems and contractor services, part of a Pentagon-wide effort to find $100 billion in savings in the next five years. Todd Harrison with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has suggestions for starting points.
June 30, 2010 -
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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.
June 30, 2010 -
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Undersecretary says contractor profits won\'t suffer, since Pentagon was encouraging cost cutting already.
June 29, 2010 -
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Undersecretary Carter says vendors providing services and weapons systems must figure out how to do more with less. He says DoD will create a preferred supplier program.
June 29, 2010 -
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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.
June 29, 2010 -
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The administration issues two new memos focusing on all IT projects and specifically on financial management systems. OMB will issue guidance in the next month detailing how they will evaluate which programs are at most risk. OMB\'s Zients says programs worth more than $10 billion are significantly off track in cost, schedule or both.
June 29, 2010 -
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DISA information strategist John Garing retires. We talk with him about the past and his vision of the future.
June 28, 2010
