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  • The Pentagon grounded six Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, due to a problem with the parachutes packed under the pilot\'s ejection seat -- Reuters reports the affected parachutes, manufactured by a privately owned British company, for Lockheed Martin were improperly folded and must be adjusted before the aircraft can resume test flights.

    January 30, 2012
  • Tom Trabucco, joined In Depth with Francis Rose for an interview on all things TSP.

    January 30, 2012
  • Linda Springer, a former controller at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what steps agencies should take to detect and root out insider fraud.

    January 30, 2012
  • Homeland security and economic wellbeing will be increasingly tied together in the coming year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in prepared remarks for a speech at a National Press Club luncheon Monday. In addition to the relationship between security and trade, Napolitano discussed the increasing role the agency plays in cybersecurity.

    January 30, 2012
  • If confirmed he will replace Air Force Gen. Douglas M. Fraser at the Miami-based command and become the third Marine Corps commander of the Southern Command.

    January 30, 2012
  • A \"staging server\" hosted by one of the largest ISPs in the country is based in the Beijing area

    January 30, 2012
  • The Office of Personnel Management says all federal employees who use the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan will soon be able to download their own personal health records. Providers in the FEHBP are adding the Blue Button technology, initially spearheaded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. OPM says it\'ll let feds access their own lab results, medication and problem lists, allergies, appointment data and wellness reminders from a secure website. The office says the recognizable Blue Button service will make it easier to share those records with health providers and family members.

    January 30, 2012
  • Several of the U.S. government\'s most recognizable websites are moving to the cloud. The General Services Administration has signed a deal to transition sites including USA.gov, data.gov and several others to a privately hosted and managed cloud platform. GSA made the 20 million dollar award under its new blanket purchase agreement for cloud infrastructure-as-a-service. It\'s the second such major deal under that BPA. The Homeland Security department used the vehicle to move several of its public websites to the cloud last summer.

    January 30, 2012
  • Congress has added a roadblock to the Army\'s move to a government-operated cloud for enterprise email service. Language in this year\'s Defense authorization bill requires the Army to put its move to the cloud on hold while it prepares reports and business case analyses for the service, operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency, and reports back to lawmakers. The Army estimates it\'ll set back its transition to enterprise email by at least 45 days.

    January 30, 2012
  • A new survey finds many U.S. physicians don\'t yet see the benefits of health technology, and that they\'re lagging behind their counterparts the rest of the world. The research by Accenture found 45 percent of U.S. doctors think healthcare IT will improve diagnostic decisions, compared to 61 percent across the globe. And only 45 percent think it improves their patients\' health outcomes. In the rest of the world, it\'s 59 percent.

    January 30, 2012
  • Diversity. Cybersecurity. Accountability. Jobs. These are the watchwords of the Administration today. Explore how innovation and accountability are revolutionizing government at the Federal Senior Management Conference, April 15-18 in Cambridge, MD Join the brain-trust of…

    January 30, 2012
  • In 2011, more than 28 percent of federal employees were union members. That\'s in contrast to less than 7 percent of unionized employees in the private sector.

    January 30, 2012
  • Rather than create two new agencies to tackle counterfeit merchandise and crack financial crimes, Jonathan Adler, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, says existing agencies can do the work with additional funding.

    January 30, 2012
  • Marco Giamberardino, senior director of the Federal and Heavy Construction Division at the Associated General Contractors of America, discusses the administration\'s efforts to streamline the federal permitting process.

    January 30, 2012