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The human side of developing integrated electronic health records

Human processes, not technology, will be the biggest challenge in building the Defense-VA system.

Defense

Navy revamps sexual assault training

New policy requires personnel to complete program by the end of the year.

Management

The incredible shrinking American government

Federal agencies lost 52,000 jobs in the past year; local governments felt even more pain.

Defense

Homeland Security chief talks cyberthreats, immigration, and baseball

Aviation and computer security are two areas that keep Janet Napolitano up at night.

Defense

Analysis: Educating the brass

The nation’s elite defense universities could be losing their shine.

Pay & Benefits

Need Money? Save Your Sick Leave

The advantages of hoarding this valuable benefit.

Pay & Benefits

Retirement claims backlog slowly shrinks

OPM continues to steadily chip away at the pileup, but retirees are still frustrated.

Pay & Benefits

VA temporarily halts employee pay downgrades

Decision comes less than a month after protest.

Management

The price tag for a proposal to root out program duplication: $100 million

Cost of requiring agencies to track all programs would not be offset by any revenues, CBO says.

Pay & Benefits

Agencies dish out more in student loan repayments

Report on 2010 spending finds the benefit helped with recruitment and retention.

Management

Washington agencies to return to normal operating procedures on Friday

That means an end to the unscheduled leave and telework policy that has been in effect since severe storms hit last week.

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FBI cyber posse goes back to school

The bureau hires the SANS Institute to teach ‘metasploit kung fu’ and other essential skills.

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Pentagon seeks to expand Afghan drone operations

The military wants to reprogram $94.2 million to expand the use of ScanEagle aircraft.

Pay & Benefits

Wielding the Ax

Firing a fed is not easy, but it’s not mission impossible either.

Management

No criminal charges for former Commerce secretary after traffic accidents

John Bryson suffered a seizure while driving.

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Illegal software export helped China develop its first attack helicopter

U.S. military contractor’s Canadian subsidiary took a calculated risk, documents show.