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PERFORMANCE PARAMOUNT FOR WORKERS UNDER WORKING FOR
AMERICA ACT
The days when federal employment was viewed by
some as a sort of American version of the “iron rice
bowl”—a Chinese idiom that refers to guaranteed lifetime
employment by the state, with wages unrelated to job
performance—are drawing to a close, if a proposal to change the
federal pay system is enacted.
CAO COUNCIL REVIEWS GUIDELINES FOR WORKFORCE
CERTIFICATION
The Chief Acquisition Officers Council is
reviewing acquisition workforce certification guidelines for final
approval for all civilian agencies.
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
TRANSFORMATION
Shrinking budgets.
Expanding project portfolios. Seem like an impossible combination?
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make better decisions, define & document IT assets and really see
what’s happening organization-wide. Learn more by downloading
“10
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SMOOTHING OUT THE BUMPS IN PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Be engaged, inspire employees and keep the lines of communication open
with contracting staff—those are a few of the suggestions made by a
panel on program management, sponsored by the E-Gov Institute recently
in Washington.
FUTURE E-GOV MUST INTEGRATE PAST LESSONS
For
electronic government, the future is less about IT and more about
standardizing business practices. Enter the Office of Management and
Budget’s Lines of Business consolidation initiative—in effect,
the next generation of e-government.
PRIDE, PERFORMANCE DRIVE POSTAL SERVICE
MANAGER
At the Postal Service, officials predict the busiest
mailing day of the year will fall on Dec. 19, when 900 million letters,
packages and other pieces of mail flow through the postal system, up
from 670 million pieces on an average day. Earlier this month, postal
officials reported that they would end fiscal 2005 with a net income of
$1.4 billion on record revenues of $70 billion and record volume of 212
billion pieces of mail. Now that’s a big business.
EXECUTIVE MANAGES MUNITIONS, MENTORS HIS
‘CHARGES’
Ernie Parada has a big “to do”
list when he arrives each day at Ployer Hill Air Force Base in Ogden,
Utah. As director of the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing, the 53-year-old
senior executive service officer oversees 1,800 military, civilian and
contract employees who test, maintain and deliver a smorgasbord of
engineering systems, equipment and munitions in the Air Force
stockpile.
COMMENTARY | GOVERNMENTS MUST ACT NOW TO PROTECT THE
FUTURE
Across the globe, nations lie in the path of the
perfect economic storm. Whether they are in Europe, the Middle East or
Asia, dozens of formerly prosperous countries now face the same,
potentially crippling, issues. Yet by taking a few straightforward
steps, governments can help assure prosperity for the next generation
and beyond.
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