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Casey Coleman, chief information officer, General Services Administration, shares career advice in this FedMentors interview for FedScoopTV.

Chuck McGann, chief information security officer, Office of the CIO, U.S. Postal Service, shares career advice in this FedMentors interview for FedScoopTV.

Robert Palmer, director, information assurance, Department of Homeland Security, shares career advice in this FedMentors interview for FedScoopTV.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is about to host its second of four workshops with the private sector in creating the cybersecurity framework outlined in President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity executive order.

Rebecca Frank is a new media content specialist in the USDA’s Office of Communications.

The U.S. Postal Service handles 160 billion pieces of mail per year and, starting in January, a new barcoding system will allow the agency to know the location of nearly every one of them.

Michael Valivullah, chief technology officer, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is our FedMentor of the week!

RADM Robert E. Day, Jr., Assistant Commandant C4IT & Director CG Cyber Command, U.S. Coast Guard, is our FedMentor of the week!

Joseph Jordan, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget, sat down with FedScoop on Thursday to discuss what his office is focused on and what to expect in the future with respect to federal government acquisition.

Kathy Conrad, Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, General Services Administration, is our FedMentor of the week!

We tuned in with Intern John to get the scoop, on how he plans to treat his own apprentice one day and how he’d like to pull a Kane Scam on Abe Lincoln.

Dr. Michael Valivullah, the chief technology officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Service, is looking to minimize the number of passwords agency employees need to remember.

In the past month, the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies has released a set of baseline social media metrics for the federal government, a social media application programming interface and is looking into privatizing parts of FedRAMP.

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to launch a virtual desktop infrastructure pilot next month in the Office of the Secretary that will act as a proving ground of sorts for VDI in the rest of the Department, HHS chief information officer Frank Baitman told FedScoop.

NASA Goddard Chief Information Officer Adrian Gardner is our FedMentor of the week!

Jill Singer, Chief Information Officer, National Reconnaissance Office, is our FedMentor of the week!

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been making changes to SEC.gov and the results are already paying off: In the last eight months, the number of hits has steadily increased by 100 million each month.

Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin will resign effective March 1, he told FedScoop in an exclusive interview.

Emmy award winning journalist Angie Goff is known for her expertise in social media, but if you read the NBC 4 anchor’s popular blog Oh My Goff, you know this community-minded mom has a very full life off-camera and off-line.

Baker will leave behind a legacy at VA and with other federal CIOs as a manager that used a data-driven review process to get the most from its information technology. His work was a precursor to White House projects like TechStat and PortfolioStat.