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Monday, December 5, 2016
Weds. December 14, 2016. Venezuela's Health Sector: Current Crisis and Opportunities for International Engagement
Webinar: December 6, 2016. MRC Year in Review
MRC
Well Check Webinar tomorrow, December 6, at 2:00 pm ET. The webinar is entitled
“MRC: Year in Review.”
We
are excited to hear from local units who were instrumental in key preparedness
and response activities this year, including response efforts to the Zika
virus, a local Mumps outbreak, and Hurricane Matthew. We’ll also hear from a
local unit who will share best practices from their highly-successful Community
Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) held this Fall.
Webinar
details and access instructions are below. We hope you are able to join us!
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Webinar: ADA. December 8, 2016. Perspectives of Building Occupants with Mobility Impairments on Fire Evacuation and Elevators
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$$$ Noninvasive Research Study. National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking healthy adult volunteers to
participate in a research study. Doctors want to study the chromosomes in
healthy individuals so they can learn more about why some people develop
chromosome abnormalities and some do not.
Eligible participants:
For more information, call:
Office of Patient Recruitment
1-866-444-1132
TTY: 1-866-411-1010
Online: clinicaltrials.gov and search by study 12-HG-0181
Eligible participants:
- Are healthy
- 18-55 years old
- Have one outpatient visit that will last about four
hours
- Have a physical exam
- Have bloodwork and two skin biopsies
- Receive compensation for your participation
For more information, call:
Office of Patient Recruitment
1-866-444-1132
TTY: 1-866-411-1010
Online: clinicaltrials.gov and search by study 12-HG-0181
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
DHS Reverse Industry Day (January 10, 2017) Register Now in FAITAS!
The next Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Reverse
Industry Day (RID) is fast approaching. After the overwhelming success of the
first and second RIDs, the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer will be
hosting a third event on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. This full-day
event is a unique opportunity to engage with industry representatives to learn
more about industry processes and methodologies related to identifying and
tracking DHS opportunities, pricing, proposal preparation, and various contract
performance considerations. Past events have featured important topics
such as demystifying the private sector, how vendors decide whether to bid (or
not) on a solicitation, and factors affecting innovation and the participation
of non-traditional vendors. You will have an opportunity to ask specific
questions of the industry panel members and hear from Chief Procurement Officer
Soraya Correa as well as other DHS senior leaders about the importance of your
role in industry engagement and how it directly supports the DHS mission.
RID is a no-charge, resident event in support of
Acquisition Innovations in Motion and the Secretary’s Unity of Effort
initiative. It is designed to improve DHS’s understanding of industry
practices related to identifying, tracking, pricing, bidding, winning, and
performing on DHS contracts. The purpose is to provide the acquisition
workforce an opportunity to learn about the issues that are most important to
industry when doing business with the Department.
This
event will be held on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
EST and is available for registration via FAITAS; look for
FCL-DHS-0041. Step by step registration instructions are below. Space is limited, and on a first come first serve basis, so register soon.
*Please note that registration MUST be completed by Wednesday,
January 4, 2017, before 11:59 pm.
8
CLPs
will be given for participating in this
event.
Date:
Tuesday,
January 10, 2017
Location
of Event:
Omni Shoreham Hotel 2500 Calvert St NW, Washington D.C. 20008
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00
PM EST (Registration begins the morning of the event at
8:00 AM)
Parking: Valet available
at hotel for $49/day
Metro: Woodley Park-Zoo
Metro Station (Red Line)
HOW
TO REGISTER IN FAITAS:
·
Login to FAITAS - https://faitas.army.mil/faitas
·
Click “Manage Career/Training/Search for Training” link
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Select the top-right radio button under the Standard Search to “Order by Course
Number”
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Select “Course ID” from the drop down list (Example: FCL-DHS-0041), and
click submit
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Select the location (Example: Washington, DC)
·
Click on the Class # (Example # 001)
·
Then click on “Submit Request” button at bottom of page
Best
regards,
2017 Presidential Inauguration. Work in D.C.? Do you really want to got to work that day?
Federal employees in the Washington, D.C. metro
area only will have to report to work for three days during the week of Jan. 16.
The Office of Personnel Management confirmed the
plan is for federal workers to be off on inauguration day, Jan. 20.
Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert wrote a memo explaining
that every federal employee around the country will be off on Jan. 16 in
commemoration of Martin Luther King Day.
Additionally,
she said federal employees who work in the “Inauguration Day area,” which is
defined in law as the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George’s
Counties in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia, and the
cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia, will be off on Jan. 20 as
well.
“The legislative history states that the holiday was established
to allow employees working in the inauguration day area to attend the nearby
inaugural ceremonies and to avoid the traffic problems and work disruptions
that would occur if employees were required to report for duty,” Cobert wrote.
OPM also clarified how telework agreements will work on Jan. 20.
Employees
who are scheduled to telework on inauguration day
at a location within the DC metro area are off that day no matter where their
official worksite is located.
Employees who are scheduled to telework on inauguration day at a location
outside the DC metro area are not on vacation that day, again, no matter where
their worksite is located.
Additionally, agencies are strongly encouraged to let federal
employees telework or work an alternative work schedule the other three days of
the week.
“In addition, federal employees who work in the downtown
Washington, DC, area and its vicinity should expect significant commuting
delays and travel disruptions on Wednesday, January 18 and Thursday, January 19
due to extensive road closures, mass transit changes, motorcades, and the
establishment of security perimeters,” Cobert wrote. “To help alleviate traffic
congestion and minimize distraction to law enforcement and security officials,
the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is urging agencies to permit
employees to use their workplace flexibility options on Wednesday,
January 18
and Thursday, January 19. Accordingly, OPM strongly encourages agencies to
allow employees to telework to keep the federal government operating while
helping to minimize traffic congestion and support law enforcement efforts
during these events. Employees may also request to use their alternative work
schedule day off, annual leave, leave without pay, previously earned
compensatory time off, and/or earned credit hours under a flexible work
schedule.”
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