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  • Debra Roth, partner at Shaw, Bransford and Roth, said the leaking of the Government Accountability Office\'s draft report back to DoD was unusual. The report was an evaluation of the whistleblower protection program for military service members.

    February 23, 2012
  • The Food and Drug Administration takes too long to approve potentially life-saving treatments and devices, says the agency\'s former head.

    February 23, 2012
  • In less than two years, the General Services Administration\'s mobile application website has grown from offering 15 apps to 100.

    February 23, 2012
  • 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 charges in the WikiLeaks case and a new contest sponsored by the Commerce Department.

    February 23, 2012
  • The military service depends on retired federal workers\' expertise to help with policy development and buying goods and services. Congress extended the ability of agencies to hire annuitants through 2015. The Army said these experienced workers are helping to fill the acquisition workforce gaps that it created with huge reductions in the 1990s.

    February 23, 2012
  • Thanks to the two-year pay freeze and two years of higher health premiums many federal workers today are taking home less money than they were in 2010, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. Some alert feds are also curious as to whether Congress has plans to extend their pay freeze until 2013, 2014 or maybe even until 2015.

    February 23, 2012
  • Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on federal financial management, told In Depth with Francis Rose the comparison between the Postal Service and Detroit auto-makers may seem \"unlikely.\" But the plan that turned around the bailed-out auto industry could prevent having to bail out the Postal Service in the first place.

    February 22, 2012
  • The space agency\'s CIO Linda Cureton said the I3P contracts are helping NASA stay on pace as technology matures. The agency already is seeing benefits from the three awards made in 2011. February 23, 2012

    February 22, 2012
  • This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government\" Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) discusses the importance of the 2012 elections, health care reform and what a single-payer health care system in the U.S. would look like. AFGE Field Services and Education Director Bill Fletcher and Transportation Security Administration Local Presidents Rick McCoy and Kim Kraynak-Lambert also join the program from the recent AFGE TSA Council 100 Founding Convention.

    February 22, 2012
  • Host Mike Causey will talk about the Thrift Savings Plan with Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs for Federal Retirment Thrift Investment Board. Federal Times Reporters Stephen Losey and Sean Reilly also join the show to discuss how Congress is changing your federal benefits package. February 22, 2012

    February 22, 2012
  • Jenn Scholtes, who covers homeland security for CQ-Roll Call, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the legislative wrangling over the Senate cybersecurity bill.

    February 22, 2012
  • International Military authorities in Afghanistan are going through evidence from taken from Bagram Airbase to analyze and determine why religious material were burned --causing a firestorm of protest in Kabul. Several questions top their list of queries. They include: What kind of religious material was involved? Why was it removed from the Parwan detention facility? How much was destroyed -and what the chain of events that led to the destruction?

    February 22, 2012
  • Mary Rosado, the vice president of federal government affairs at Express Scripts, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss a proposed merger between prescription managers.

    February 22, 2012
  • President Barack Obama has asked Congress to let his administration reshape the way the federal government is structured — a power the office of the President last held in 1984.

    February 22, 2012