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CRS survey reveals inconsistency in telework adoption rates
Recent research shows the Agriculture Department, General Services Administration and Patent and Trademark Office leading the way in implementing improved telework policies under the Telework
Teleworking PTO employees process more patents, less expensive
Patent and Trademark Office employees participating in the agency's largest telework arrangement, called the Patent Hoteling Program, process more patent applications per year than their in-office
Congress poised to pass fiscal 2012 'minibus'
House and Senate appropriators unveiled Nov. 14 a "minibus" bill that would fund the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as NASA,
Agile doesn't mean no long-term planning, auditors tell PTO
Just because the Patent and Trademark Office has adopted an agile scrum process for development of a system meant to fully automate patent processing into a seamless whole doesn't mean it can shirk
Senate harder on science appropriations than House
Many scientific federal efforts covered by the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies annual spending bill do relatively better under the House Appropriations Committee version than under
Stop viewing telework as a perk, officials urge
To date, the Patent and Trademark Office has avoided $19.8 million in real estate expenses by hoteling its examiners, said Danette Campbell, PTO's senior advisor on telework. PTO's telework strategy
FierceGovernmentIT FOIAs OMB TechStat meeting info, Part II
Little information comes out from the Office of Management and Budget that isn't stage managed or carefully fed to media outlets that don't follow the workings of federal information technology
PTO official: Change doesn't happen overnight, strategic plans should be a legacy
The Patent and Trademark Office is overhauling many of its business processes, but the change hasn't come easy or fast. "It doesn't happen over night. That's why I talk about this plan as being part
FierceGovernmentIT covers the fiscal 2012 budget request - UPDATED II
By David Perera and Molly Bernhart Walker The fiscal 2012 annual spending request (.pdf) for the federal government delivered to Congress on Feb. 14 projects $3.73 trillion in spending for fiscal
Study offers 10 tips for agency telework policies
As agencies face the July 2011 deadline for implementing the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, a recent report funded by the IBM Center for The Business of Government offers guidance for navigating
