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The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.

THE FEDERAL DIARY--When the January raise takes effect, federal employees in more than a dozen cities outside Washington will find themselves making more money than colleagues doing the same work here (The Washington Post).

NPC AWARDS--"The office of the Navy Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair at Electric Boat will receive a major national award this week from the National Partnership Council for its careful management of a work force reduction totaling 55 percent over the past few years" (The New London Day, New London, CT, 9/9/97).

GSA--The manager of centralized household goods for the General Services Administration is in hot water over two letters he wrote this summer to the moving industry which may jeopardize the planned moves of an estimated 200 civilian government workers (The Washington Post).

IRS--"The Internal Revenue Service, always a ready target for politicians, faces the prospect of undergoing its most sweeping overhaul since rampant corruption forced a housecleaning in the 1950s" (The Wall Street Journal).

OF INTEREST--The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is working with employers and unions to foster better year-round relations (The Wall Street Journal, Work Week)...The stigma attached to job-hopping has vanished (The Wall Street Journal, Managing Your Career).

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Access America Conferences

The National Performance Review (NPR), will launch a series of informational conferences aimed at providing government employees and private industry IT officials with techniques and strategies for implementing the goals of Access America, an NPR report outlining steps to increase access--via the Internet--to government services. The first conference will be held September 25 in Baltimore, Md. and then will travel to other cities across the country. Expert panels will discuss IT topics, including Internet/Intranet successes, the future of Distance Learning and collaboration, IT acquisition and procurement reform, and privacy and security.

DTIC Annual Conference

The Defense Technical Information Center is presenting its Annual Users Meeting and Training Conference on Nov. 3-6, 1997 at the DoubleTree Hotel, National Airport, Arlington, Va. The conference theme is Information in the New Millenium. Contact Ms. Julia Foscue at 703-767-8236 or by e-mail at jfoscue@dtic.mil.