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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[More feds investing in TSP&apos;s L Funds]]></title>
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  <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[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[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[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[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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  <title><![CDATA[DoD employees to get 11 furlough days]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department plans to furlough some 680,000 civilian employees for  11 days by the end of September as the result of sequester-related budget cuts.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan overtaxes U.S. contractors, IG finds]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan has slapped US-funded contractors working on reconstruction efforts with nearly $1 billion in taxes since 2008, often in spite of clear tax exemption agreements, a government watchdog has found.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[As wildfire season looms, sequester cuts firefighters]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The sequester will cost the Forest Service about 500 firefighters and 50 fire engines this year, even as the agency expects another rough season of drought-fueled wildfires.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[FBI to investigate Tea Party tax affair]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he&apos;s opened a criminal inquiry into the Internal Revenue Service&apos;s handling of applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party groups.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Is a billion-dollar border security program finally due?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security has taken a positive step in one of the longer running procurement sagas of recent years, issuing downselect notices to several contractors to compete in the next phase of a controversial border security program, source]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Senators: Sequester-avoiding deal not likely before Aug. recess]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The onetime target of early August for passing sweeping fiscal legislation is slowly being replaced by a consensus that striking a &apos;grand bargain&apos; could prove difficult.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Access to Federal News Radio website restored after hacking attack]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Full access to the news websites FederalNewsRadio.com and sister station WTOP.com was fully restored Saturday after a hacking attack had temporarily blocked some users&apos; access last week.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit airport]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Green of the road: Airlines, hotels, cars more eco-friendly]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When you travel these days, you&apos;re doing so in a more environmentally friendly fashion than you did a decade ago &#45; and you probably can&apos;t even tell.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[TSA officers, air marshals file legal warning over knives]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Nine groups of airline workers and travelers filed a legal challenge Monday urging the Transportation Security Administration against allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Planes on the same runway more often, watchdog warns]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles &amp;#8212; and sometimes narrowly avoiding collisions &amp;#8212; hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department&apos;s inspector general warned Thursday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[OPM cancels benefits conference]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year&apos;s benefits conference.]]></description>
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