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Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former assistant Defense secretary for manpower and logistics, has analysis with The Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
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 cuts to the Defense budget, Hillary Clinton announcing her departure and an increase of declassified material.
Agencies are struggling to keep up with the tremendous amount of data being created every day. DIA deputy director David Shedd said too much information and not having the right IT to sift through it is the biggest remaining challenge the government faces. Kshemendra Paul, the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, said tagging and standards, such as NIEM, could help solve the data deluge.
While many federal workers are worried about their future retirement benefits, some experts say that a possible change in pension rules wouldn\'t be that big a deal, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey reports ... or would it?
Richard Spires said the Homeland Security Department has more than 130 human resources systems and that\'s too many. He said an intra agency group recently completed a segment architecture of HR technology to figure out where they can consolidate systems and find savings. January 26, 2012
The National Treasury Employees Union has denounced a Senate bill reforming the Postal Service because it would also reduce benefits under the federal workers\' compensation program.
Richard Stiennon, the chief research analyst at IT Harvest and author of the book \"Surviving Cyberwar\" joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss why agency cybersecurity is not just a matter of Congress appropriating more funding.
Jim Dalkin, director of financial management and assurance issues at GAO, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the updated auditing standards and what it means for GAO\'s work.
Janet Kopenhaver, FEW\'s Washington representative, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what her group is working on for its members in the federal workforce.
Brenda Sprague, the deputy assistant secretary for Passport Services at the State Department, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss a new pilot program allowing people to apply for passport cards online.
Joe Brown, president and co-founder of Accelera Solutions, an IT contracting company focused on virtualization, joined Industry Chatter with Francis Rose to discuss virtualization.
Symantec\'s Veritas Storage Foundation storage software was the cause of a shutdown of the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application clinical data repository as identified by the Military Health System. About 9.7 million electronic records for active-duty and retired military personnel and their families are stored on AHLTA.
The e-health records technology pioneered by the Veterans Affairs Department will soon be available to the rest of federal employees in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.
Prosecutors called it one of the biggest government contracting fraud cases ever. Court papers show Michael A. Alexander plans to plead guilty to bribery and conspiracy to launder money. Alexander and three other men, including another Army Corps of Engineers employee, were indicted in October on charges of participating in a bribery and kickback scheme in the awarding of $20 million in government contracts. The other men have pleaded not guilty.