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The General Services Administration has lost a protest to CarlsonWagonlit Sato Travel on the follow-on contract for agencies up upgrade their governmentwide E-Travel systems.
April 25, 2011 -
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In the Defense department, the goal of consolidating tens of thousands of IT systems and networks into a more manageable structure is not exactly new. But some leaders in the department think with new budget pressures in play, they\'ll be able to make some serious progress.
April 25, 2011 -
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William Welch chairs the government contracts group at the General Counsel law firm and he tells us why.
April 22, 2011 -
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A new Pentagon inspector general report finds \"procedural and technical weaknesses\" in the Army\'s traffic assessment surrounding its plans to move 6,400 Defense employees to a privately owned office complex in northern Virginia. Rep. Jim Moran, whose district includes the site, said the findings provide the underpinnings for local officials to sue the Pentagon to stop the move.
April 22, 2011 -
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As a result of Deepwater\'s failures, the Coast Guard has reformed the acquisitions management process. We talk with GAO\'s John Hutton about how that\'s going.
April 21, 2011 -
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The Government Printing Office has named Charles Riddle as the new chief information officer. Riddle brings a background in information technology and most recently worked at the Agriculture Department.
April 20, 2011 -
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The six-month continuing resolution Congress passed earlier this month was mostly about cuts, but it also included several hundred million dollars in new spending pushed through by the Maryland and Virginia congressional delegations. That money will pay to help solve some of the huge traffic problems this year\'s military personnel moves are expected to create around the DC area.
April 19, 2011 -
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The House passed a fiscal year 2012 bill today that freezes federal pay for three years and cuts the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition.
April 15, 2011 -
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There\'s no impasse buster on the horizon. Paul Van de Water with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains why he says that.
April 15, 2011 -
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Army officials told Congress Thursday that they had made progress in reforming management at Arlington National Cemetery, an institution they said lacked a management foundation when a new management team took over in the wake of a scandal involving mismarked grave sites and other problems. Some members still are unhappy with the changes.
April 15, 2011 -
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The House and Senate are ready to vote on legislation cutting almost $40 billion from the budget for the current year. We get an update from the AP\'s Jerry Bodlander.
April 14, 2011 -
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee agreed to legislation Wednesday that would take roughly 200 presidential appointees out of the Senate confirmation process. The vast number of Senate-confirmable positions has become unwieldy for the upper chamber, and has deterred too many qualified candidates from accepting executive branch appointments, committee leaders said.
April 14, 2011 -
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Federal Times editor Steve Watkins joins host Mike Causey to talk about what\'s next for federal workers and retirees. April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011 -
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The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed two bills on Wednesday that prohibit a person with \"seriously delinquent tax debt\" from being a federal employee or contractor.
April 13, 2011
