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EPA, NASA and Transportation receive two honors each in different categories. Overall 17 agencies received all green scores on the Open Government dashboard.
August 16, 2010 -
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will step down next year. He had been expected to leave before the end of President Barack Obama\'s first term in 2012.
August 16, 2010 -
With anticipated labor shortages, Agencies need to hire staff while reducing recruitment costs. Aon\'s recruitment solutions help agencies reduce recruitment spend and time to fill by more than fifty percent, and improves hiring manager satisfaction by more than seventy-five percent. Aon processed over one hundred thousand applicants for an agency and hired in excess of seventeen hundred diverse employees. The agency benefited with a new hires that were more successful during training and better matched to the job.
August 13, 2010 -
Five days after proposing controversial cuts in Pentagon spending, much of official Washington still is reeling. Defense Secretary Gates called for $100 billion in spending reductions over the next five years. Some of the proposals to achieve those savings are finding mixed reaction among officials on Capitol Hill and in industry.
August 13, 2010 -
Changes in technology, culture and conditions necessitate not only an update, but growth for the three-year old office.
August 12, 2010 -
Seeking to enable a single, lifetime electronic health record, the Veterans Affairs Department adopted a 10-digit identifier to be used from enlistment to death. VA\'s CIO, Roger Baker, talks with WFED\'s Scott Carr.
August 12, 2010 -
Ari Schwartz is leaving the Center for Democracy and Technology after 13 years to join the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a senior Internet policy advisor. He explains the decision to become a fed.
August 12, 2010 -
Northern Virginia information-technology companies will help Arlington National Cemetery sort out bungled burial records, nudging it from index cards to computers. Bobbie Kilberg, President and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council gives us the details
August 12, 2010 -
Grants will be awarded for WiMax, fiber and DSL deployments. Rural Utilities Service Administrator, Jonathan Adelstein, explains.
August 12, 2010 -
Learn more about what it is and how you can apply it at your agency.
August 11, 2010 -
We get analysis from Lawrence Korb, former assistant secretary of defense.
August 11, 2010 -
Some call it the Ft. Knox for stamps. The Stamp Fulfillment Center is located in a cave in Missouri and houses millions of dollars in stamps. Manager Khalid Hussain explains why he thinks he\'s got one pretty cool federal job in this installment of our Cool Jobs in Government series.
August 11, 2010 -
The Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment says the three-year-old document needs to be updated and expanded. This effort is one of five priorities Kshmendra Paul shares in his exclusive interview with Federal News Radio, a month into his new role.
August 11, 2010 -
The Commerce Department says that as things stand the 2010 Census is now expected to come in on schedule and 22 percent under budget, meaning a savings of $1.6 billion in 2010. Congressional reaction to the news is split along party lines with some lawmakers praising the efforts of the Census Bureau to do an accurate and cost-effective population count - while one lawmaker calls the claims \"smoke and mirrors.\"
August 11, 2010 -
A systems integrator tells us what it was like to build the site.
August 10, 2010