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Maintaining a healthy heart, with Chevy Chase cardiologist Richard Rubin, MD.
Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University and former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the new DoD budget really means.
The Pentagon has unveiled details of a 10-year strategy for defense cuts — including reductions in military pay and benefits. But before any large-scale changes are made, service members should be given a chance to voice their opinions of their compensation packages, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary, a prominent defense think tanks argues. \"The Pentagon is already starting to move to make changes in the compensation system,\" said CSBA senior fellow Todd Harrison. \"And basically our point here is before we start tinkering with things, before we start making changes we need to understand first how service members actually view different parts of their compensation package.\"
Tammy Flanagan, the senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss recent proposals on federal retirements.
Jon Desenberg, a senior policy director at The Performance Institute, and Jason Miller, Federal News Radio\'s executive editor, count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Symantec\'s Veritas storage software had caused a shutdown of a military health database.
Vice President, Cyber Initiatives Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions As Vice President of Cyber Initiatives, Lee Holcomb leads the Lockheed Martin Center for Cyber Security Innovation (CCSI) and manages technology solution development, process…
Aneesh Chopra, the White House\'s first chief technology officer, is stepping down, the White House has confirmed.
David Jacobs, a consumer privacy fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, talks to The Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what Google\'s new policy means for you.
The Pentagon begins the process of revealing its budget plan for fiscal year 2013. The proposal includes the scaling back of several weapons systems, savings on personnel costs, along with an assurance from top DoD officials that even though the military will be smaller, it will be more agile and more capable.
The Pentagon says the Obama administration will propose to Congress that U.S. ground forces be reduced by 100,000 as part of budget cuts. Those cuts would also eliminate older aircraft, limit military pay raises and slow the buying of a next-generation fighter plane. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tells a Pentagon news conference the administration will request a 2013 budget of $525 billion, plus another $88 billion for operations in Afghanistan. Combined, those totals are about $33 billion less than the Pentagon is spending this year.
The Office of Personnel Management received more the 15,000 new retirement applications this month. Ed Zurdorfer, registered employee benefit consultant, offers some advice on how federal employees can make the road to retirement less stressful.
The Federal Drive spoke with a panel of experts about the lessons learned from NSPS and the future of pay-for-performance in the federal government. Pat Tamburrino, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Civilian Personnel Policy Patrick Nealon, Director of Deloitte Consulting LLP\'s Federal Total Rewards practice Bob Tobias, former member of the Defense Business Board task group that studied NSPS
The FTC is teaming with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to coordinate and protect consumers.