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Home      FedLine      Subscribe      Customer Service      Contact Us      Advertise      About Us      Help Pay & Benefits      Personnel      Agency News      Travel      IT      Acquisition      Facilities, Fleet & Energy      Congress      Advice & Opinion      Departments      Forums June 14, 2011digital delivery | sign up for other e-newsletters ADVERTISEMENT Welcome to the Daily News Roundup, a summary of today's top news stories featured on the FederalTimes.com website and the FedLine blog. Learn about the results of the 2011 TechAmerica Federal CIO Survey Hear from key government executives as they explore key issues such as the Administration's 25 Point Implementation Plan for IT Reform issued by OMB. Also discussed will be program management, cloud computing, and cyber security with perspectives from the CIO, CFO, CTO and CISO communities. Pentagon will prioritize energy use in acquisition process The Pentagon has unveiled a comprehensive strategy that will change the way the Defense Department manages and uses energy on the battlefield, and will make energy a factor when acquiring weapons. Read more. Obama administration aims to shut down thousands of federal websites The Obama administration wants to take down half of the roughly 2,000 major federal websites in the coming year — with 500 of those shutting down in the next few months, officials said Monday. Read more. House panel doubts $885M in Pentagon’s planned savings The House Appropriations Committee is skeptical about the Defense Department’s plans to save money. Read more. Obama announces new steps to tackle wasteful spending President Obama issued an executive order Monday to reduce government waste and abuse. Read more. Transforming the Pentagon, one business system at a time Read more. Mikulski to Geithner: Take federal pensions off table in deficit talks A prominent senator is urging Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to take federal pension cuts off the table in any deficit reduction plan. Read more. IG report slams former director of Defense schools The Department of Defense Inspector General has substantiated six allegations of abuse of power in hiring decisions and wasteful spending against Shirley Miles, the former director of the department’s school system. Read more. Intel agencies aim to automate secrecy The exploding volume of classified information that agencies generate is overwhelming their abilities to effectively manage, archive and, eventually, declassify it, according to experts. Read more.   Follow us on:         Twitter Facebook ADVERTISEMENT Fiddlin' Foresters axed from federal web domain June 13, 2011 6:13 PM The Fiddlin’ Foresters may live on, but their web site’s apparently defunct. Monday morning, the U.S. Forest Service string band found itself in the unenviable position of being panned by President Obama. Not for its music, but for a web site that Obama held up as an example of a taxpayer-funded Internet presence in urgent need [...] Counternarcotics contracts lack oversight June 10, 2011 12:53 PM Poor oversight of federal counternarcotics contracts calls to question how billions of tax dollars were spent, a congressional report shows. Neither the State or Defense departments, which award most counternarcotics contracts, have adequate systems to track and evaluate contract data, the June 7 report states. The report was prepared for Sen. Claire McCaskill, chairwoman of [...] OPM establishes new IT career paths June 10, 2011 12:09 PM The Office of Personnel Management has established a formal career path for information technology program managers and IT project managers, according to a recent memo. In a memo last month, OPM encouragesd agencies to use the new title as soon as possible "to recruit, select and develop a cadre of high-performing IT program managers," the [...] Federal Times Google Gadget   © 2011 Gannett Government Media Corporation A subsidiary of Gannett Corporation. All Rights Reserved. For inquiries about reproduction or distribution of any materials contained herein, please contact reprints@gannettgov.com. Contact Information: Gannett Government Media Corporation 6883 Commercial Dr. Springfield, VA. 22159