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GAO: Agencies need to improve COOP recordkeeping

Agencies aren't producing adequate documentation of continuity-of-operations exercises, the Government Accountability Office has found.

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Arbitrator orders ATF to let examiners telework

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives must extend telework to legal-instrument examiners under an arbitration panel ruling.

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DHS' chief human capital officer resigns

Marta Brito Perez will leave the department Jan. 6, 2008, a little more than a year after being apointed to the job.

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OPM is gaga over Google helping attract new hires

The partnership will provide Google users with information previously available only through a keyword search on the USAJobs Web site.

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Want to come home again?

Once retired, then rehired, some feds return to their former agencies to pass on their program knowledge

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Senators support chief management officer positions

Sens. Daniel Akaka and George Voinovich say CMOs would help agencies make management a higher priority.

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Conferees' report revamps NSPS; unions optimistic about Bush signature

Language in the 2008 Defense authorization legislation would restore collective-bargaining and other rights to workers covered by the National Security Personnel System.

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Waxman, Davis press Bloch about alleged file deletion

The lawmakers have asked Special Counsel Scott Bloch for a transcribed interview about allegations that he improperly deleted files from his office PC.

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USAJobs links up with major search engines

Information about federal job openings is available through Internet search engines as a result of new Office of Personnel Management initiative.

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Report identifies benefits, limitations of EVM

Earned value management metrics can help lawmakers evaluate projects, but it also has limitations, a Congressional Research Service report concludes.

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OPM IG: Did Special Counsel Bloch improperly delete files?

In July, House Republicans accused Scott Bloch of using his office PC to send personal e-mail messages during office hours about official OSC business, a violation of federal rules on e-mail use.

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Modernization

OPM suspends telework for some of its workers

It was temporarily stopped Oct. 29 during a transition to the agency's modernized retirement system, which will go live in February 2008.

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Survey: Retirement wave not a major concern

Federal managers surveyed by Tandberg said other issues such as the war in Iraq are more pressing.

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Council for Excellence in Government, Avue team on workforce improvements

The partnership is designed to bring workforce issues to the forefront through online programs.

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NTEU endorses legislation to push telework

The National Treasury Employees Union is supporting a bill that would require agencies to establish written telework policies and name a full-time telework managing officer.

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Results-based focus key to telework, says GAO specialist

Telework in the government is lagging because agencies have never translated it into program goals, GAO's Bernice Steinhardt told a House hearing Tuesday.

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Handhelds, laptops increase IT security worries, survey finds

As worker mobility increases, so do security concerns for IT staff members, according to a study by the Computing Technology Industry Association.

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Appeals court stops some NASA HSPD-12 background checks

In granting the injunction, the appeals court agreed that the case raises serious privacy concerns.

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DOD: Congress must fix NSPS

Collective bargaining elements of NSPS remain an obstacle to full deployment