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Agency Oversight

New ideas for updating a very old scorecard at which agencies roll their eyes

Deep in the weeds of agency management, you find something called the FITARA scorecard. FITARA stands for Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. It became law in 2015. Twice each year, agencies receive a scorecard from Congress on how they did managing their IT activities. Now a team, under the IT trade group ACT-IAC, has come up with a list of recommendations for revising the FITARA scorecard.

IT Modernization

SSA advisory board authorizes outside panel of IT modernization experts

Congress

Impeachment hearings weren’t a distraction in 1998, will they be now?

Commentary

Shared services: The path to success

Commentary

Are we missing the forest with IT modernization?

Commentary

Top commentaries of 2016 address retirement, workforce concerns

Federal Drive

Richard Spires & Alan Balutis: Expectations for upcoming presidential transition

Businessman Using Laptop Besides Multiethnic Colleagues

Commentary

Want culture change? Time to push baby boomers into retirement

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In Depth Show Blog - July 9, 2013

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In Depth interviews - Jan. 4

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Top 3 for 2013 - Alan Balutis on budget pressures

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Federal News Countdown: Mars Rover and USPS revenue losses

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Analysis: VanRoekel's plan has too many priorities

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Federal News Countdown: Cyber unpreparedness, 20 best feds

Hiring/Retention

Agencies still must do more to fix hiring process

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Federal News Countdown: national security team shuffle

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Countdown: 2-week CR, potential shutdown consequences

Technology

When NOT to telework

Federal Drive

In case of shutdown, step away from the BlackBerry

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Countdown: Gates cuts Pentagon budget, Census surplus