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Subhead: Administration honors sustainability efforts by seven agencies with the 2010 GreenGov Presidential awards.
October 07, 2010 -
Paul Brubaker, senior director for Cisco System\'s North America Public Sector Solutions, former deputy CIO at DoD and one of the people who crafted the legislation that created the CIO\'s over a decade ago, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss changes happening at the DoD CIO office.
October 07, 2010 -
The massive shift of workers out of the National Security Personnel System over to the General Schedule is on track, Federal News Radio reports.
October 07, 2010 -
The NSPS Transition Office is working itself out of a job. We get an update from director John James.
October 07, 2010 -
Council on Environmental Quality issues new guidance giving agencies instructions to measure greenhouse gas emissions. Council chair Nancy Sutley said the directive includes approaches used inside and out of government. Agencies have until January 2011 to complete an initial baseline inventory.
October 07, 2010 -
With the majority of federal employees located outside of the Washington, D.C. metro area, how are feds in regional offices answering the White House\'s mandates regarding the greening of government? The answer: the Federal Executive Boards organized groups of executives who find ways to collaborate across agency lines.
October 07, 2010 -
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Organizers of a new, conservative initiative are issuing a fact sheet Wednesday that argues against any cuts in defense spending, Politico reports.
October 06, 2010 -
SSA Commissioner Michael Astrue has taken extra funding, both from Congress\' annual appropriations and from the Recovery Act, and invested in staffing and technology to fight the case backlog, Government Executive reports.
October 06, 2010 -
The Technology CEO Council is making recommendations to streamline technology that could save the government $1 trillion, New York Times reports.
October 06, 2010 -
GSA’s chief spokesperson, Sahar Wali, is going to be leaving the agency. She will be joining the White House Council of Environmental Quality as their communications director next month, the DorobekINSIDER has confirmed. Wali has roots on Capitol Hill and she worked on the Obama campaign. She joined GSA soon after the election and has [...]
October 06, 2010 -
NCUA protects the money you have in a federally insured credit union up to $250,000, same as FDIC protects money in a bank account. Chairman Debbie Matz explains how.
October 06, 2010 -
From the soon-to-be renovated headquarters of the General Services Administration, to the green roof of the main New York City Post Office, the federal government is making energy-efficient-and-sustainable buildings a top priority. But a little over three years ago, one federal building in the D.C. area led the way in the design and construction of a new generation of green buildings.
October 06, 2010 -
DoE wants to make all of its roofs white or light color to help reduce the amount of heat buildings absorb. GSA is testing solar panels, geo-thermal and solar chimneys in different buildings around the country. The goal is to help reduce the government\'s $25 billion annual energy bill.
October 06, 2010 -
The Defense Department announced reassignments for its Seniors Executive Service.
October 05, 2010