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  • Director, Mission Assurance and NetOps DISA Mark Orndorff is the director of DISA’s Program Executive Office for Mission Assurance and NetOps, where he manages the acquisition, development, and implementation of DoD Information Assurance and NetOps…

    August 13, 2012
  • Director, Defense Cybersecurity Capability, Enterprise Services Hewlett-Packard Company Albert Kinney is the Director, Defense Cybersecurity Capability at HP Enterprise Services. Throughout his career, Mr. Kinney has held a number of leadership and management positions including…

    August 13, 2012
  • Principal Architect Red Hat David Egts is a Principal Architect at Red Hat, Inc., specializing in the application of open source enterprise infrastructure technologies within federal, state, and local government agencies, the Department of Defense,…

    August 13, 2012
  • Intelligence community observer Ellen McCarthy says massive across-the-board spending cuts would result in significant layoffs in both the federal government and the private sector.

    August 13, 2012
  • More than a dozen military instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in Austin, Texas have been investigated or charged with sexually assaulting recruits. The scandal has reached all the way to the top, claiming the job of Colonel Glen Palmer, who oversaw basic training. Investigators say more than three dozen female trainees were victimized. Lackland is home to more than 475 military training instructors --the equivalent of Army drill sergeants.

    August 13, 2012
  • Fifteen years ago, NASA began their Robonaut project to create the first humanoid robot that would be capable of working in space. Despite various funding problems, the resulting humanoid machine is currently on the International Space Station helping crew members by taking over simple, repetitive or dangerous tasks now performed by astronauts.

    August 13, 2012
  • CEO, Project Developer & Construction manager with a 15-year record of success designing & building energy management & renewable energy projects. Oversight of all phases of energy conservation measures for multimillion-dollar electrical engineering & construction…

    August 13, 2012
  • Andrew Wakefield is Lutron’s Director of Government Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for Lutron’s government focused sales and marketing teams as well as it’s Washington, DC based operations. Andrew joined Lutron in 2001…

    August 13, 2012
  • Ever wonder what the federal government is doing to reduce electricity use and reduce costs? Learn more about how the US federal government is leading the way in working to make its facilities more sustainable and environmentally responsible.

    August 13, 2012
  • Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) sent a letter to the Defense Secretary Panetta and Secretary of State Clinton asking them to consider further actions against contractor Pratt & Whitney Canada. P&WC pleaded guilty in June to illegally exporting military software to China.

    August 13, 2012
  • The Energy Department is asking electric utilities to make cybersecurity a top priority. It called for a cybersecurity governance board that would share information with the DoE.

    August 13, 2012
  • The Project on Government Oversight evaluates whether defense contractors would be hit hard by sequestration. Plus, what are best practices for creating PDFs that are accessible by people with disabilities?

    August 13, 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 a new bill removing 166 jobs from Senate confirmation and IBM considering buying a network to support BlackBerrys.

    August 13, 2012
  • A review of audit practices at the military's IT agency finds significant deficiencies in meeting governmentwide "yellow book" auditing standards. DISA agreed with the inspector general's findings and laid out four steps toward improvement.

    August 13, 2012