Management

  • Heavy U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often don\'t vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs.

    October 08, 2010
  • A fire at the U.S. Department of Commerce has shut down the Hoover Building in D.C.. Construction workers had been doing asbestos abatement when the fire started in a storage room. Crews were able to quickly put out the fire but employees are being encouraged to take administrative leave or telework.

    October 08, 2010
  • Federal agencies are turning to web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace to reach out to the public regarding their mission. But many agencies have also turned to social collaboration and networking sites to reach out to their own staff when it comes to President Obama\'s Green Government initiatives.

    October 08, 2010
  • Most of the systems the GAO has put on the high-risk list are customized systems that agencies have created from scratch, but a new model is emerging.

    October 07, 2010
  • More than 400 employees will spend another fiscal year setting their own schedules and focusing on performance instead of worrying about where they are working. OPM is redoing performance plans to incorporate the Results Only Work Environment approach.

    October 07, 2010
  • More than 400 employees will spend another fiscal year setting their own schedules and focusing on performance instead of worrying about where they are working. OPM is redoing performance plans to incorporate the Results Only Work Environment approach.

    October 07, 2010
  • Subhead: Administration honors sustainability efforts by seven agencies with the 2010 GreenGov Presidential awards.

    October 07, 2010
  • After weeks of deadlock, delegates from North and South Korea agreed to resume reunions of families separated by the Korean War. Reunions are anticipated to be held from October 30th through November 5th at the Mount Kumgang joint mountain resort area in North Korea. When two states agree about an issue, but have trouble reaching a final agreement, experience and good judgment commend that you track the money. Mount Kumgang is operated by South Korea, but at a profit for North Korea. South Korea caved to North Korean demands because the social pressure for resuming reunions in South Korea is irresistible; more powerful than all other considerations, including more cash to the North.

    October 07, 2010
  • Every agency has submitted a plan, per the White House request. David Erne, senior associate at Booz Allen, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss what agencies put together.

    October 07, 2010
  • EPA employee Barbara Klieforth bikes the six miles to work everyday.

    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
  • Washington Technology reports that SBA is not offering information about whether or not suspensions are in store for the small businesses working with GTSI Corp.

    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