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The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive host Tom Temin 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 newscast includes new concerns over safeguarding nuclear materials and a three-way agreement to promote greater cybersecurity.
March 15, 2012 -
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Lawmakers weigh public\'s right to know against the need to protect cyber secrets. Sen. Patrick Leahy\'s (D-Vt.) provision in 2012 Defense authorization bill tightens the definition of \"exemptions,\" but he questions the need for further rules to give agencies power to withhold information.
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The service\'s CIO Terry Halvorsen said the goal is to bring together the purchasing power of the Navy and the Marines Corps to obtain lower prices. He said the Department of the Navy expects to save $100 million over five years. Navy senior officials from technology, acquisition and finance make the use of these enterprisewide contracts mandatory.
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When it comes time for your performance rating, do you ever feel like the honest, hard-working kid in the boxing movie who gets a shot at the title, only to be told that he must take a dive, or else? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wants to know: Are your agency performance ratings rigged?
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Host Mike Causey will talk career mobility with Carol Bonosaro, president of the Senior Executives Service. Federal Times Senior Writers Stephen Losey and Sean Reilly will talk about how pending legislation in Congress will affect your pay and benefits. March 14, 2012
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The four sitting commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission have \"grave concerns\" about a House committee\'s plan to relocate the agency out of its historic Pennsylvania Ave. location into a privately held building in Southwest, Washington D.C. Eileen Harrington, FTC\'s executive director, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss a plan in Congress that would require the FTC to relocate to make room for the National Gallery of Art.
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The top lawyer for U.S. Cyber Command, Air Force Col. Gary Brown, calls the Stuxnet attack the model of a responsibly conducted cyber attack. Catherine Lotrionte, the executive director of George Washington University\'s Institute for Law, Science and Global Security joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss Stuxnet.
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George Washington University\'s National Security Archive \"awarded the Justice Department the award for 2011 last month for its response to Freedom of Information Act requests and the FOIA policies and guidance that it sets for the rest of government. Nate Jones, the FOIA Coordinator at George Washington University\'s National Security Archive, joined Francis Rose to discuss the dubious honor and government openness.
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This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government\" Council of Prison Locals President Dale Deshotel and TSA Local 1120 Montana Vice President Eric Wood shed light on the dangers of privatization at their agencies. Food & Water Watch Senior Lobbyist Tony Corbo addresses ongoing concerns with a proposal to change federal poultry inspections while AFGE DoD Local 2142 President Joe Gonzales details the impact of workplace conditions on employee morale.
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Hord Tipton, the executive director of ISC2 and the former chief information officer at the Interior Department, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the \"red flags\" managers should look for in the hiring process.
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The Senate voted Wednesday to overhaul transportation programs and keep aid flowing to thousands of construction projects while strengthening highway. The $109 billion measure, approved in a 74-22 vote, included a number of amendments affecting federal pay and benefits, including a provision to allows \"phased retirements\" for federal employees and an expansion of an expired mass-transit subsidy.
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The federal initiative to increase diversity and inclusion in its workforce may be critical to an agency\'s mission or seen as a political ploy depends on the employees\' race, ethnicity and gender. That is what a Federal News Radio survey revealed: sharp divides among federal employees. And the widely differing points of view may make it more difficult for agencies to implement new diversity and inclusion strategies.
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Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said Wednesday that his committee\'s 2013 DoD authorization bill will undo Defense spending cuts the Pentagon has already proposed.
March 14, 2012 -
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Even in the 21st century, it can still be awfully tough to vote in an election if you\'re thousands of miles from your local polling place. Making sure such voters can cast ballots in federal elections is the mission of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), a Defense Department office that offers assistance not just to military personnel, but to any U.S. citizen who needs help casting a ballot from overseas.
March 14, 2012
