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  <title><![CDATA[Instead of replacing legacy systems, modernize them]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130609/ADOP06/306090006/1037</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Continuing resolutions. Sequestration. Furloughs. We are all being inundated with the gloom and doom of what&apos;s next in government. No matter what budget Congress enacts to extend the CR set to expire Sept.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Workforce cuts today may cost taxpayers more in long term]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[For federal employees and those following the government, it&apos;s rare if the conversation these days doesn&apos;t turn at some point to the budget and sequestration.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Editorial: DoD must cut overhead, personnel]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Three years ago as Defense Department spending was poised for a downturn, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates launched a broad efficiency drive to cut staffs and stretch dollars.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Letters to the editor: Week of June 10]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Every time I read the Defense and the Veterans Affairs departments are going to develop an electronic medical records system, I want to laugh.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Flying blind: the impacts of sequesters]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies are in the throes managing more than $85 billion in cuts for the remainder of fiscal 2013. The choices are not easy, but some are more visible than others.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Federal pay equity: Are we asking the wrong question?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The debate over federal pay hinges on one commonly accepted premise: The pay of a federal employee and an employee of a commercial entity doing highly similar work should be highly similar.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Retirees deserve full pensions on Day One]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[More than two decades of effort and $100 million in costs have gone down the drain in trying to speed up processing full retirement pay for former federal employees.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Letter to the Editor: Week of June 3]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[It is not the fault of millions of hard-working career federal civil servants that roughly 117,000 employees were furloughed May 24 &#45; employees from the Housing and Urban Development, Interior and Labor departments, and Environmental Protection Agency, Of]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Houston, we have a problem]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[On May 16, the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton released a report, &apos;The Biggest Bang Theory,&apos; which discusses strategies to attract specialists in the STEMM professions: science, technology, engineering, math and medicine.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pension costs understated]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130519/ADOP06/305190005/1037</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The costs agencies ascribe to federal pensions, when they are comparing whether it is more efficient to perform commercial-like work in-house or to outsource it to a contractor, have been understated significantly for decades.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Enough bureaucracy already]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[First, let me say these are my views only, not my employer&apos;s.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Public service: an opportunity, not a burden]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130512/ADOP06/305050004/1037</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sequester poses public service challenges]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[More than 35 years ago, as a newly minted law school graduate, I moved from my hometown of New York City to Washington to take a job at the Justice Department.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Contracting professionals need to travel &amp;#8212; and train]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130428/ADOP06/304280004/1037</link>
  <description><![CDATA[No one can forget the image released a year ago of a government executive holding a champagne glass in toast while sitting in a Las Vegas hot tub &amp;#8212; paid for with federal dollars. Congressional leaders were rightfully indignant and called for a halt to such events. However, taxpayer costs for government acquisition may now be increasing as a result of overreach policies implemented since then.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:06:23 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cost restructuring can help agencies meet budget challenges]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of sequestration, it&apos;s clear that significant budget cuts are inevitable for agencies and programs throughout government. Already, procurements of complex equipment have been reduced or cut&amp;#59; support contracts have been negotiated more aggressively &amp;#8212; and, in many cases, cut back or canceled.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor: April 29]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I must disagree with the editorial on the U.S. Postal Service and its push to end Saturday delivery [&amp;#8220;On wasteful spending, Congress is the problem,&amp;#8221; April 15].]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:03:57 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Congress must help ensure a responsible drawdown]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The federal drawdown of the twenty-teens is here.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:01:29 -0400</pubDate>
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