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Fiscal cliff: Social Security avoided in deficit reduction talks
12/19/12 10:17 AM
President Barack Obama's offer to slow the growth of Social Security benefits would force fellow Democrats in Congress to abandon promises to shield the massive retirement and disability program from cuts as part of negotiations to avoid the year-end fiscal cliff.
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From FCW: Agencies adjust contracting approach for coming fiscal clampdown
12/18/12 10:18 AM
From FCW: Companies doing business with the federal government are feeling the effects of a confluence of economic and spending trends, and with no reversal expected in the foreseeable future, leaders will need to learn to adapt.
From Washington Technology: Sierra Nevada Corp. wins $56.5M contract for electronic warfare systems
12/17/12 10:55 AM
From Washington Technology: Sierra Nevada Corp. has won a $56.5 million contract with the U.S. Army Contracting Command for the production of electronic warfare systems worn by soldiers to counter remote controlled improvised explosive devices.
Susan Rice withdraws name from Secretary of State consideration
12/14/12 10:10 AM
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for the U.S. Secretary of State position, ending what would surely have been a contentious nomination hearing.
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Pentagon asked to investigate contractor using animals for training
12/13/12 11:33 AM
A research reform advocacy group is asking the Pentagon to investigate an Army contractor that uses animals for combat casualty training.
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Fiscal Cliff: Boehner has 'serious differences' with White House
12/13/12 10:11 AM
Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that he and the White House have some "serious differences." He says the GOP proposal is a balanced approach.
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From NextGov: The year in tech
12/12/12 10:10 AM
From NextGov: Technology changes year to year, phone to phone, quarter to quarter. Here at The Atlantic, we like to focus on how those changes happen, the ideas that animate them, the people that execute them, the users who transform them.
From GovTech: The importance of social media
12/11/12 10:15 AM
From GovTech: If you’re still debating whether to dive into the social media deep end, heads up: It’s time to swim with the rest of the public-sector fish.
Fannie, Freddie managers earn more than $200,000, report says
12/10/12 11:36 AM
The inspector general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency issued the report Monday saying 333 of the 2,000 senior managers are vice presidents who had median pay of $388,000.
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Federal Hot Minute Dec. 17, 2012
12/18/12 11:17 AM
Keep up with the latest news from the federal government, business and contracting. And get the latest Federal Hot Minute here.
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From Defense Systems: Army cyber program explores ways to breach sealed networks
12/18/12 10:16 AM
From Defense Systems: A number of U.S industry and military labs are exploring methods that would allow the military to inject data and infect systems with destructive viruses into ironclad networks that are not connected to the Internet, reports Defense News.
From GovTech: 2012 year in review - government data centers
12/17/12 10:53 AM
From GovTech: Government data centers haven’t disappeared yet – but a good number of CIOs are doing their best to get rid of them. Throughout 2012, CIOs made it clear that their first choice for new systems and applications is the cloud.
From FCW: GSA awards IT commodities purchase agreement
12/14/12 10:09 AM
From FCW: The General Services Administration has awarded new blanket purchase agreements for IT commodities to 43 small businesses.
From FCW: Army vows to get aggressive in pursuit of purchasing discounts
12/13/12 10:16 AM
From FCW: Officials from the Army Medical Command are requiring contracting officers to ask vendors to reduce prices when an order goes above $150,000, and to check that the Veterans Affairs Department’s federal supply schedules sales are the best procurement approach or if they might find better prices in the open market.
From Washington Technology: 7 companies compete for Senate IT contract
12/12/12 10:13 AM
From Washington Technology: Seven companies will compete to be the prime contractor for the single-award Senate Information Technology Support Contract III.
Fiscal Cliff: Defense workers, companies in Northern Virginia will be hit hard
12/11/12 10:17 AM
In Northern Virginia, it doesn't take long to find companies or workers who would be hit hard by big defense cuts.
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Federal Hot Minute Dec. 10, 2012
12/10/12 4:58 PM
You’ve seen the many headlines dealing with the big stories in the business of government such as the sequestration, the CyberSecurity Executive Order and the reform of the EGOV Act. Here are several other stories worth reading you may have missed.
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From Washington Technology: Who's won the biggest contracts in fiscal 2013 so far?
12/10/12 10:08 AM
From Washington Technology: October and November, the beginning months of fiscal 2013, were very active when you look at contract news. Within that time span, we saw a several giants award: three contracts were over a $1 billion and two more that were close to $1 billion.

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