Reporters’ Roundup: Diversity in hiring, Navy’s next gen IT, Labor’s budget cuts

These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today.

• The Labor Department knows budget cuts are coming in 2012 and 2013. The agency is like many others are figuring out what it must do versus what would be nice to do. Jim Taylor is the chief financial officer at the Labor Department. He tells reporter Jason Miller about how Labor is preparing for budget cuts.
• President Barack Obama has issued an executive order giving federal leaders 90 days to come up with a plan to increase diversity from interns to executives. Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp has the story.
• The Department of the Navy says it can’t fail…and the schedule can’t slip on its gigantic award to run its enterprise IT network. Navy and Marine Corps officials held an industry day this afternoon in Virginia to update vendors on the procurement process for the Next Generation Enterprise Network. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu was there.

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