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  • Turkey stepped up strikes on a Syrian border town on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers, while its parliament approved further military action in the event of another spillover of the Syrian conflict. Reuters says they're "seeking to unwind the most serious cross-border escalation in its 18-month-old crackdown on dissent, Damascus apologized through the United Nations for shelling which killed five civilians in southeast Turkey on Wednesday and said it would not happen again, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said."

    October 05, 2012
  • AFGE shares how the Social Security Administration's plans to reduce the number of hours will impact field offices. Plus, BGov reporter Kevin Brancato describes the tiff between DoD and Lockheed Martin.

    October 05, 2012
  • The Small Business Administration's Washington headquarters at 409 3rd St., S.W., is closed Friday due to a water outage, according to an SBA statement.

    October 05, 2012
  • The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air. Today's news includes the Government Accountability Office upholding a bid protest.

    October 05, 2012
  • The Homeland Security Advisory Council Task Force on Cyberskills submitted 11 recommendations to the DHS secretary on how to improve the agency's cyber workforce. The committee said DHS must define the skills needed to protect .gov networks. It also suggested setting testing and certification standards.

    October 05, 2012
  • Congress has a lot of unfinished business to tackle during its lame duck session expected in November. The House Intelligence Committee chairman thinks new threat information could push cyber legislation up the priority list.

    October 05, 2012
  • Happy New Fiscal Year! With it comes a new round of buyouts. The first out of the gate are the U.S. Postal Service and the Internal Revenue Service. But your agency may be next, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    October 05, 2012
  • Rudy Mazariegos, ARL's acting chief information officer, said he's implementing the ITIL framework to help bring more discipline to the organization's processes. October 4, 2012

    October 04, 2012
  • On this week's Bloomberg Government Capital Impact show, analysts will talk about what's next for sequestration, options for repairing the Harrier jet, technology that Israel could use to respond to the Iranian nuclear threat, and why certain medications may be in short supply. October 4, 2012

    October 04, 2012
  • On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.

    October 04, 2012
  • The Obama administration has laid out an ambitious roadmap for agencies to phase out the use of paper records by 2020 in favor of managing nearly all records electronically. Sue Trombley, the director of consulting for Iron Mountain, joins Industry Chatter to discuss the ways the private sector can help agencies build on the government's guidance.

    October 04, 2012
  • Mr. Goodge is the primary advisor to the MHS Chief Information Officer on all mission, scientific, technical, information technology, and information management issues.

    October 04, 2012
  • Join Federal News Radio for HCMF November 28-30 at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, Va Human Capital Management Federal (HCMF) brings together stakeholders from throughout the Federal HR Community from strategic-level policy makers…

    October 04, 2012
  • The annual reporting memo gives agencies 57 questions and answers as they prepare their 2012 cybersecurity report.

    October 04, 2012