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  <title><![CDATA[Appeals court considers appeal rights for &apos;sensitive&apos; jobs]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A federal appellate court heard oral arguments Friday in a case that tests the balance between national security safeguards and civil service protections. The outcome could affect disciplinary appeal rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[5% of federal workforce furloughed Friday as agencies shut down]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Roughly 117,000 federal employees are on leave without pay Friday in the first major round of sequester-driven furloughs.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House committee plans deep 2014 spending cuts]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A new House Appropriations Committee plan proposes increasing defense spending next year by 5 percent and imposing severe cuts upon many non-Defense Department agencies, especially the Health and Human Services, Labor, Education and State departments.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama announces pick for new OPM director]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama plans to nominate Katherine Archuleta to be the next director of the Office of Personnel Management.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Administration releases mobile security standards]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The administration issued new security standards for mobile devices on Thursday that call on agencies to use third-party software that can monitor and enforce security policies on the devices.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GSA awards governmentwide mobile contract]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration on Wednesday awarded a governmentwide contract for discounted wireless services and mobile devices, which the agency expects will save $300 million over five years.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[IG hits back at Afghan criticism on contractor taxes]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A government watchdog is defending an audit that uncovered tens of millions of dollars in Afghan taxes improperly levied against federal contractors in recent years amid sharp criticism from the country&apos;s finance ministry.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is abandoning its plans to build a single, joint electronic health record system with the Veterans Affairs Department in favor of developing its own system using commercial software.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama taps Tangherlini to be permanent GSA chief]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama said Wednesday he plans to nominate acting administrator Dan Tangherlini to become the official head of the General Services Administration.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies snapped to respond Tuesday to the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, the first major natural disaster to strike since sequester-related budget cuts took effect in March.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[VanRoekel to lead OMB&apos;s management team]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Steven VanRoekel will lead the Office of Management and Budget&apos;s management team, following the departure of OMB&apos;s No. 2 official this month.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Former IRS head says he didn&apos;t know of Tea Party affair]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Douglas Shulman said he was &apos;dismayed and saddened&apos; by revelations that his agency targeted conservative political groups for extra scrutiny, and said he had been unaware of it.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[More feds investing in TSP&apos;s L Funds]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130520/BENEFITS03/305200008</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The number of Thrift Savings Plan participants enrolled in the L, or lifecycle, Funds reached a record 864,469 in April.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[New security standards expected to speed mobile adoption]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The administration is expected to release details this week for how agencies should secure government-issued smartphones and tablet computers.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sequester doesn&apos;t add up for IGs]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The inspector general for the General Services Administration expects to lose out on more than a quarter-billion dollars in potential government savings next year, as the sequester-related budget cuts force the agency to scale back on efforts to uncover w]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GSA starts effort to improve cybersecurity in procurements]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is seeking industry input as it develops standard contract language to ensure cybersecurity measures are taken in federal procurements.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[How State Department was duped in $60M fraud scheme]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130519/DEPARTMENTS08/305190007</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A federal investigation of former State Department contracting specialist Kathleen McGrade has uncovered a treasure trove of luxuries allegedly acquired with the proceeds of a multimillion-dollar contracting scam: a Steinway piano; sculptures; sapphire, e]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[News Briefs: May 20, 2013]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies have closed 420 data centers and aim to shutter more than 500 others by December 2015, but plans to save billions of dollars through the consolidation effort so far appear to be falling short.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tangherlini: Tighter budgets mean bigger role for GSA]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Dan Tangherlini wants more of your business &#45; a lot more.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pension costs understated]]></title>
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  <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[IRS draws bipartisan fire at hearing]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The nation&apos;s top tax official apologized for the agency&apos;s treatment of conservative groups, denied he lied to Congress about it, and insisted that politics did not motivate the agency&apos;s decision to give Tea Party groups extra scrutiny.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD approves Apple iPhones, iPads for military use]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department will allow government-issued iPhones and iPads to connect to the military&apos;s networks, the Pentagon announced Friday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama names new IRS commissioner]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama has named a new acting IRS commissioner.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[FBI&apos;s Mueller expects furloughs next year]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers last week he expects the sequester&apos;s budget cuts will force him to furlough agents in fiscal 2014.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[IRS acting commissioner resigns in wake of scandal]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The top official at the Internal Revenue Service stepped down Wednesday amid a fast-building scandal over agency employees allegedly targeting for excessive scrutiny conservative groups who were seeking tax-exempt status.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The IRS inspector general blamed &apos;ineffective management&apos; for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a report released late Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal employees at civilian intelligence agencies will most likely be spared furloughs this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Courts seek $73M in emergency funding]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The federal courts are seeking an additional $73 million in emergency funds for this year to prevent layoffs and other repercussions from sequester-related budget cuts.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Report: Recruit more science and tech talent]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies must creatively and aggressively recruit science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical employees to keep up with rising demand and competition from the private sector, according to a new report that will be released Thursday.]]></description>
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