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Agencies to begin assigning NICE codes to cyber, IT positions

Agencies will soon be able to provide greater specificity on the critical cybersecurity roles performed by members of their IT workforces, as this month they began to implement a new coding structure to identify those positions.
Two birds, one stone: VA’s EHR to address interoperability and data centers

With the Veteran’s Affairs initiative to transition their electronic health records system from the current Vista program to a new system implemented by health IT company Cerner, officials hope to both make the agency interoperable with the Department of Defense’s Cerner system and to kickstart their data center consolidation efforts.
One U-2 squadron wants to be the Silicon Valley of the Air Force

U-2 pilots at Beale Air Force Base may still be operating an aircraft designed more than 60 years ago, but they’re shopping for cutting edge tech to help augment their decade’s old mission.
GAO: More can be done to increase minority representation in tech

Government agencies responsible for the enforcement of workforce diversity require improvements to more effectively improve the tech sector’s demographics.