A new phased retirement option has been approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. The Federal Employee Phased Retirement Act represents a significant change in how federal employees and agencies will plan for retirement. Employees can now take phased retirement for a few years at the end of a career. Steve LoseyRead… Read more »
On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER The future of the desktop: what the changes will mean for how you work. Insights from Cisco, Citrix and NetApp. Click here for the full story. Feds go to the movies — how you can learn leadership techniques from the summer blockbusters with Tom Fox from the Partnership forRead… Read more »
What is the future of the desktop sitting on your desktop? GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER talks three experts — via Cisco’s TelePresence, no less — about how things are changing… and what it means to the way government works. Panelists: Dan Kent is the Chief Technology Officer at Cisco. David Smith is the CTO for CitrixRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Wednesday the 11th of July, 2012 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it’s unlikely that any of the 2012 appropriations bills will get passed before the November elections. The National Journal says Reid blames House Republicans for drafting appropriations bills under the overall spending cap agreed duringRead… Read more »
With summer in full swing it’s time for the annual summer blockbusters to start rolling out of Hollywood. Movies like the Avengers, Spiderman and the Hunger Games. You might be thinking, ok those are great movies but what do they really have to do with the federal government? More than you think. Tom Fox isRead… Read more »
On today’s edition of the DorobekINSIDER We have CIOs, CFOs — does there need to be a chief innovation officer? We’ll talk about what the position is and how it might work. Click here for the full story. The outlook for government contractors might be grim, but there are some areas of growth. We’ll takeRead… Read more »
Budget cuts, steep competition and the economic downturn are hitting contractors hard. That means that the window of opportunity is getting harder smaller. So what is the outlook for government contracting? Lisa Dezzutti is the President and CEO of Market Connections. Market Connections conducted a national online survey of 272 federal government contractor business developmentRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Tuesday the 10th of July, 2012 Buyouts are coming to Goddard Space Center. More than 100 employees will get offers this month. Most of them work in science and exploration. NASA said the buyouts were aimed at reshaping the workforce rather than trimming it. Federal News RadioRead… Read more »
Happy Monday! Welcome back to everybody after the Fourth of July break when just about everybody was away — including the DorobekINSIDER! On Today’s Program How to make good decisions — and the challenges with making good decisions these days. Insights from an executive at ATF. Click here for the full story. And red tapeRead… Read more »
Typically, we’d have the seven stories that impact your life, but… today, given many people weren’t really paying attention during the holiday week, I’ve pulled together the SEVEN stories that impact your life for the past week! A virus could knock thousands of internet users offline today. The Daily Beast reports, the FBI has liftedRead… Read more »