Use of Contractors by State Dept. Has Soared
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While the amount of money the State Department pays to private contractors has soared, the department conceded that it has added few new officials to oversee contracts.
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The British government spent 1.75 billion pounds (3.20 billion dollars, 2.52 billion euros) last year to hire outside consultants, some of who were paid roughly 10 times that of a civil servant doing same job, a report said.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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The metropolitan Washington region is reaping the rewards of Uncle Sam's procurement spending, with last year marking the highest growth rate of federal contract dollars in the area since the Beltway Bandit days of the 1980s. -washingtonpost.com
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At four of the region's largest real estate brokerages, more than half the tenants looking for large chunks of space are government agencies or their contractors, and brokers said the increased competition for space among companies in the booming defense and security industries could mean higher rents.
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D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request f...
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Europe has become the new hotspot for outsourcing contracts, exceeding the U.S. in terms of the value of major outsourcing deals awarded last year, global sourcing firm Technology Partners International Inc. (TPI) said Friday.
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Initial U.S. jobless claims surged unexpectedly last week by 43,000, taking claims to their highest level since late September, a government report showed on Thursday -- but an official noted there were seasonal adjustment difficulties.
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Construction spending sprang back to life in July, rising to the highest level on record, the government reported Wednesday.
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Retirements of veteran air traffic controllers have surged beyond government expectations since the Bush administration imposed a contract on their union on Labor Day last year, new data shows.
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Number of users with high-speed connections has tripled in the last three years.
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The number of initial claims for  U.S. jobless aid filed last week rose 2,000, while a more  reliable barometer of labor trends climbed to its highest level  in two months, government data showed on Thursday.
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits jumped 20,000 last week, the government said on Thursday in a report that continues to be somewhat elevated by hurricane-related claims.
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Federal spending on contractors is expected to grow more quickly than it has historically, though not quite at the booming pace of the three years after Sept. 11, 2001.
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M aura Harty , the State Department's designated flak-catcher for the public furor over three-month-plus passport issuance delays -- which are ruining many, many thousands of family vacations and educational and business trips -- is working overtime to reduce the backlog.
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The State Departmentâs rollout of technology to capture biometric data from visa applicants has progressed more quickly than expected and the department will meet its Sept.
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VIENNA, Va. -- AT&amp;T Government Solutions and its team of subcontractors have been chosen by the Treasury Department to build and deploy the largest civilian agency network, serving more than 1,000 domestic