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In an effort to better protect federal networks, the Homeland Security Department expects agencies to provide around-the-clock monitoring of their IT systems, the head of the department said yesterday.

The Senate’s two federal workforce leaders say the Homeland Security Department needs a depoliticized chief human capital officer (CHCO) to see the department through the transition to a new presidential administration next year.

A top legislative priority for the Homeland Security Department this year is having Congress reauthorize a program that enables employers to electronically verify the legal status of newly hired workers, the department's policy chief said Friday.

Census Bureau officials will face fresh fire over management missteps at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday on the 2010 Census.

For a member of Congress, there's nothing better than using an agency's own data to make your point about it.

When the Defense Department releases its annual report on system security in the coming months, it most likely will focus priorities on information sharing and identity management, reflecting an aggressive move to a "content-centric" strategy, said a top Defense official.

The agency that maintains the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is undertaking a five-year project to overhaul pay practices so it will be more competitive in hiring scientists, engineers and other professionals.

Agencies are hiring more upper-level employees from outside the federal government, a new survey by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board found.

In the wake of recent privacy-violating probing of presidential candidates' passport files and earlier losses by agencies of computers or hard drives containing sensitive employee data, it appears the risk of nosy feds, political paparazzi, ...

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