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Feb 3rd 2010
Lawmakers expected to vote on Cybersecurity Enhancement Act that would give NIST more authority. Bill also focuses on research and development around cybersecurity.
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Feb 3rd 2010
On Monday, the DorobekINSIDER pointed you comments made by Senator elect Scott Brown (R-MA) where he said that feds made double the private sector.
Read the full comments here, but the relevant portion:
We need to put a freeze on federal hires and federal raises because, as you know, federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts...
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Feb 1st 2010
Could Tuesday be V-Day for Martha Johnson, the Obama administration’s nominee to be GSA administrator — V-day meaning Senate vote day.
Wetold you last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had put Johnson’s on the list for cloture — essentially putting her forward to end debate and then allow a yeah-or-nah vote on her nomination...
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Feb 1st 2010
Federal employees making twice as much as their private sector counterparts, right?
That’s what Senator-elect Scott Brown said during his interview Sunday with Barbara Walters on ABC News’ This Week:
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WALTERS: President Obama has asked for a spending freeze on almost everything except matters like the military, Social Security, and Medicare...
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Feb 1st 2010
The most read stories from the week of January 10-16, 2010… on the DorobekInsider.com, on the Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris, for Mike Causey, and for FederalNewsRadio...
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Jan 22nd 2010
The DorobekInsider has learned — and confirmed — that Energy Department CIO Tom Pyke notified his staff that he is retiring from that post...
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Jan 19th 2010
Continued changes at the top ranks of the General Services Administration — Danielle Germain, who was named GSA’s chief of staff seven months ago, told staff that she is stepping down from that post — we confirmed with Germain following a nice get by FCW’s Matthew Weigelt...
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Jan 19th 2010
Government workers generally despise the term “bureaucrat” — mostly because it has all sorts of negative connotations. Generally politicians use it dripping with derision as they scoff at the work done by government workers...
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Dec 22nd 2009
We told you about it first right here last week — and it will be official today — the White House has accepted the resignation of GSA acting administrator Paul Prouty and has designated Stephen R...
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Dec 18th 2009
UPDATED with the text of the bills…
Breaking news — Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Bob Bennett (R-UT) have just introduced two bills that seek to improve the federal acquisition workforce...
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Dec 13th 2009
Shockingly enough, we are nearing the end of the year — and we are also nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century. I actually forgot all of this until I was reading a New York Times story Naming the ’00s, where people are struggling about what to call this decade that we’re about to finish up...
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Nov 24th 2009
OPM is giving agencies until Jan. 15 to report on their cybersecurity workforce hiring needs.
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Nov 6th 2009
The plan — and you can read all the documents here — essentially creates an uber-USDA "Departmental Administration" that includes most of the management functions — procurement, IT, HR, finance and budget — all under one umbrella.
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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 24th 2009
Santa Claus came to Federal News Radio 1500 AM this morning — yes, a bit early, but… it’s all for a good cause. For the past three years, Microsoft Federal the the USO of Metro DC have led a program called A Salute to Our Troops...
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