Management
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While the U.S. high-tech industry lost 245,600 jobs in 2009, federal IT employees and contractors may have dodged the biggest bullets. Josh James, Director of Research for the TechAmerica Foundation, and Olga Grkavac, executive vice president, public sector, TechAmerica explain.
April 30, 2010 -
The upper chamber will review IMPROVE Act provisions through the Defense Authorization bill. The Senate also is considering other acquisition bills focusing on the workforce.
April 30, 2010 -
GSA signs agreement with the Federal Acquisition Institute and the Defense Acquisition University to improve and standardize training for contracting officers and contracting specialists. The agency also signs an agreement to improve small business access to the schedules.
April 30, 2010 -
A new report from the Federal CIO Council outlines what federal agencies, and the government as a whole, must do if it wants to get more members of Generation Y into the federal IT workforce.
April 29, 2010 -
WFED\'s Jason Miller reports from the Coalition for Government Procurement Conference.
April 29, 2010 -
Some of the federal government\'s top web managers and producers are seeing some new, cutting edge tools.
April 29, 2010 -
The way the federal government does business with contractors is changing.
April 29, 2010 -
President Barack Obama announced on Thursday his intent to fill two key administration posts.
April 29, 2010 -
Special advisor the President Kareem Dale is refocusing agency efforts to make sure Web sites and other technology meets the accessibility law. The CIO Council also is looking at technology issues for people with disabilities. Dale says Justice also is working on a new survey of how agencies are complying with Section 508.
April 29, 2010 -
President Obama has said publicly that he is a big fan of performance management, and wants to blend its practice into the day-to-day operation of the Federal Government. But what does that mean for feds who are tasked with actually making the wheels of government turn every day? The Association of Government Accountants convened a conference to discuss performance in government.
April 29, 2010 -
April 26th and April 28th, 2009 Michelle Moore Federal Environmental Executive, Executive Office of the President Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
April 28, 2010 -
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Commissioner Astrue tells House committee that despite the recession, the agency still plans on reducing its disability claims backlog. SSA using a combination of technology, new employees and improved processes to continue on the path to eliminate its hearings backlog by 2013. State agency furloughs, however, are causing additional challenges with the log jam of claims.
April 28, 2010 -
New rule could change how vendors do business with DoD.
April 27, 2010 -
Allan Holmes of NextGov reports.
April 27, 2010