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Nov 16th 2009
One of the more interesting stories of the year in government IT is the transition to the new Networx telecommunications contract — or lack of transition, to be honest...
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Oct 30th 2009
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
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WASHINGTON (AP) - An internal review of the Obama administration's own plan to spend tens of millions ofdollars upgrading little-used border checkpoints ahead of busier ones justified its choices, but a senior Democratic senator said he will ask congressional investigators for a separate audit...
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Oct 9th 2009
The DorobekInsider told you first this week that the White House was going to announce — soon — that Daniel Gordon [PDF], the deputy general counsel for the Government Accountability Office, would be nominated to be the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy...
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Oct 9th 2009
The DorobekInsider told you that Daniel I. Gordon would be nominated as the administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy — and soon — and it is now official...
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Oct 9th 2009
EDITOR’S NOTE: This item was updated with a correction on Oct. 7, 2009 at 9:25a ET.
We told you about those scandalous IG reports on the Department of Veterans Affairs CIO organization that showed former high-ranking VA IT officials “gave preferential treatment to certain contractors, engaged in nepotism in hiring and, in one case, took advantage of a relationship with a supervisor for personal gain...
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Sep 29th 2009
There have been all kinds of names floating around, but… expect the White House to nominate Daniel Gordon, the deputy general counsel for the Government Accountability Office, to be nominated… and possibly very soon...
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Sep 9th 2009
One of the big stories of the week — and possibly of the year — are the developments with the National Security Personnel System. NSPS, ofcourse, is the Defense Department’s pay-for-performance system — it was the attempt by the Bush administration to develop an alternative to the government’s long-standing General Schedule pay system, which emphasizes longevity but does almost nothing to recognize performance...
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Aug 24th 2009
Late last week, we told you about two scathing reports from the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general’s office. And they are still the buzz around town...
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Aug 23rd 2009
If you want some interesting reading, there are two new report out from the inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs. (How often do “IG report” and “interesting reading” end up in the same sentence...
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Aug 18th 2009
By most accounts, oversight of federal agencies is one of the most important jobs in Congress.
But at the Department of Homeland Security, some officials find themselves a bit overwhelmed by the amount of oversight for which they are sought...
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Aug 12th 2009
One of the constitutionally-mandated jobs of Congress is to provide oversight over the Cabinet-level agencies and other organizations within the Executive Branch...
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Aug 3rd 2009
We have been telling you about the the Recovery and Transparency Board and the General Services Administration, which acted as the Recovery Board’s acquisition team, $9...
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Jul 22nd 2009
Editor’s note: This item is re-posted from earlier this week. Unfortunately, for some reason, the item has just disappeared. Federal News Radio’s tech team is working on it, but… it is one of my favorite posts — so I am just re-posting it...
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Jul 21st 2009
They say that journalism is the first draft of history. Well, with the transparency and openness out there these days, my guess is that most journalism is actually the second draft of history… with Tweets being the first draft...
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Jul 17th 2009
The new CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Roger Baker, is wasting no time in putting troubled VA IT systems on notice. Baker announced todaythat it will “temporarily halt 45 information technology projects which are either behind schedule or over budget...
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