The White House has started to conduct discussions on community policing best practices with law enforcement agencies since June in collaboration with the Justice Department. Jerry Abramson, deputy assistant to the president and director
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The Small Business Administration has launched a new website designed to simplify the application process for small companies and entrepreneurs that aim to do business with the federal government. Maria Contreras-Sweet, SBA administrator, said
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration to specify the pit production-related parameter for NNSA’s plutonium analysis project at Los Alamos. GAO said Tuesday the
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The General Services Administration‘s 18F unit has conducted an experiment on an auction that involved bidding via the micro-purchase team’s application program interface on the cloud.gov platform. Michael Torres and Alan deLevie,
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David Nelson, former chief information officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been appointed to a similar role at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has managed CMS’ $2.6 billion information technology portfolio as well as helped
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David DeVries, principal deputy chief information officer of the Defense Department, is set to join the Office of Personnel Management in the coming weeks as CIO. The 35-year DoD veteran will provide strategic leadership to
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The Office of Personnel Management has issued a data call with regard to OPM’s annual evaluation of special rates for General Schedule employees. Beth Cobert, acting OPM director, wrote in a memorandum issued Thursday
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The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a total of $8.6 million to 246 health centers in the continental U.S., Micronesia and the Northern Mariana Islands in an effort to help the facilities manage
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Chris James, associate administrator at the Small Business Administration‘s office of intergovernmental affairs, has been appointed to serve as associate administrator under the agency’s office of field operations in addition to his current
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Barney Krucoff, former geographic information officer in the state of Maryland’s information technology department, has been appointed as chief data officer for the Washington, D.C. city government. He aims to increase the flow of information between the
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