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  • My Skills. My Benefits. My Future. The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program(VRAP) welcomes all 35 to 60 year-old unemployed Veterans looking for a new career. Through their retraining assistance program, Veterans who meet the criteria qualify…

    June 21, 2012
  • Ms. Letitia A. Long was appointed Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on August 9, 2010.

    June 21, 2012
  • John Bryson is resigning as the secretary of the Commerce Department nearly two weeks after suffering a seizure that allegedly led to two traffic collisions.

    June 21, 2012
  • Chief Information Officer Jerry Horton said his agency is now linking its procurement and financial systems, among others, to take advantage of the large amounts of data USAID produces.

    June 21, 2012
  • NIST, DHS experts say protecting smartphones and tablets shouldn't be any different than securing typical desktop or laptop computers. DHS will release mobile security reference architecture to help agencies understand common concepts. NIST is updating security control guide with 250 new requirements, including mobile controls.

    June 21, 2012
  • A Pentagon investigation indicates poor judgment led to the teaching of anti-Islamic material at a U.S military school. Materials in a course at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va., portrayed the U.S. as being at war with Islam. U.S. officials say the war being fought by America is one against terrorists. The instructor, an Army officer, was relieved of teaching duties. Disciplinary action against two other officers is being considered. The course was suspended in April.

    June 21, 2012
  • Rep. Henry Cuellar discusses the increased use of drones ... within our borders. Assistant Secretary of Labor David Michaels explains how OSHA is being overhauled.

    June 21, 2012
  • Federal mediators are trying to end a standoff between the Pentagon's biggest contractor and its workers.

    June 21, 2012
  • The Army has suspended a co-owner of the Pentagon's top propaganda firm in Afghanistan.

    June 21, 2012
  • The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a three-year contract to upgrade cryptography in the country's intercontinental ballistic missile system.

    June 21, 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 two senators probing National Weather Service spending and a plan to close 50 postal processing plants hits a snag.

    June 21, 2012
  • The Financial Services and General Government spending bill seeks to cut $2 billion from the president's request. The bill says nothing about granting feds a pay raise in 2013. The House committee follows the lead of Senate appropriators, which also remained silent on the issue.

    June 21, 2012
  • Benjamin Friedman, a CATO Institute research fellow, said sequestration prevents intelligent spending cuts, but that doesn't necessarily mean DoD lacks room to make smarter ones.

    June 21, 2012
  • Members of Congress, nervous about the economy and the upcoming November elections, have volunteered to tighten their own money belts. But in the process they may have turned thousands of top-paid federal workers into identify-theft targets, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    June 21, 2012