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The latest plan is to build nine ships a year for the next three decades — and then renovate the others, the Navy Times reports.
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The U.S. is host almost half of the systems infected with the botnet kownn as SpyEye, according to a new study from South Korea-based AhnLab.
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\"Weaponized Word\" files are starting to tear up Mac computers, InfoSecurity reports. The documents take advantage of an existing weakness in the Mac version of Microsoft Office.
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Dan Blair, the president and CEO of the National Academy of Public Administration, and Jon Desenberg, the senior policy director of The Performance Institute, count down the top federal news stories of the week.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has chosen cybersecurity firm Lunarline to lock down personally identifiable information in its systems. The company says it\'ll help the agency prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of such material.
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Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Senior Executive Reform Act, which would link the General Schedule with the pay system for senior executives and let senior executives include their performance bonuses in their retirement calculation.
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The U.S. military is watching Mali very carefully. Five African presidents seeking to restore Mali\'s elected government are now meeting in Ivory Coast, after the planes carrying the heads of state to Bamako were forced to turn around because demonstrators supporting the military junta took over the tarmac, officials said. The presidents of Ivory Coast, Benin, Liberia, Niger and Burkina Faso were due to arrive in Mali on Thursday to press for the departure of the junior officers that grabbed power in a coup last week, reversing over two decades of democratic rule.
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The Senate confirmed the positions on Thursday, clearing a backlog of nominees by the Obama administration.
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This week, NASA\'s communications team took home a Shorty Award — the equivalent of the Oscars for social media.
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The Transportation Security Administration has grown from \"the ashes of the Pentagon and the Twin Towers\" into a 65,000-employee agency, whose effectiveness is now being called into question by lawmakers.
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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 newscast includes record-low work hours for Postal Service employees and USDA\'s proposal to plant biofuel crops near airports.
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Sequestration would kill hundreds of thousands of defense industry jobs, the Pentagon warns. Frank Kendall told senators during his nomination hearing to be the DoD acquisition chief that personnel accounts would be shielded so lower-tiered contractors would feel the brunt of cuts.
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Acting administrator Lesley Field said this version will focus on trying to dispel myths commonly held by industry. Agencies also posted their vendor communications plans on FedBizOpps.gov as part of the initial Mythbusters campaign.
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This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government,\" Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) discusses the constitutionality of the individual mandate and other provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Center for American Progress Action Fund President and CEO Tom Perriello, former Clinton White House senior staffer Bob Weiner, Families USA Health Policy Deputy Director Marc Steinberg, and Health Care for America Now Executive Director Ethan Rome also weigh in on the law as oral arguments take place before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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