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Jennifer Hazelman, who manages GSA\'s Carbon Footprint Tool, explains how a simple commuter survey can help agencies find ways ways to reduce greenhouse gases at their work site or facility.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. military is moving ahead with developing the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet, but warns the program is \"not out of the woods yet.\" Those remarks came as the F-35B Lightning II was removed from \"probation\" and granted full status along the other two variants of the Joint Strike Fighter. He said the F-35, the Pentagon\'s most expensive weapons program, is \"absolutely vital to maintaining America\'s air superiority\".
The Pentagon has been under pressure to spend less, and that urgency is growing, as the threat of automatic-cuts looms.
Jonathan Sallet, a partner with the law firm O\'Melveny and Myers and the report\'s co-author, joined The Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what such a department would look like.
In next year\'s budget, key factors for program funding are performance, performance and performance, the Air Force\'s top acquisition official said.
Labor talks failed this weekend between the Postal Service and two postal unions — the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Postal Handlers Union.
Los Alamos National Lab researchers say they\'ve found a way to put u-crackable security on smart phones. The technique is called quantum cryptography.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering free credit monitoring for one year to more than 2,200 veterans after the agency mistakenly released personal information of those vets online.
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 a new system for choosing chief operating officers, the VA sends personal info to an ancestry website and talks fail between Postal Service and two labor unions.
A couple of weeks back, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wrote a rare \"this-is-good-news\" column about federal workers. He would now like to withdraw that column and apologize for what turned out to be irrational exuberance.
Federal government offices will open to the public at 11:00 a.m., due to expected icy conditions Monday morning.
John Crawford of Collins Brothers Moving and Storage discusses obtaining estimates, pros and cons of types of estimates, how to prepare for a move and much more.
STRATFOR Vice President for Intelligence Fred Burton and Roger Baker, vice president for Strategic Intelligence, join host Derrick Dortch, to talk about what they are working on in 2012. January 20, 2012
John Palguta of the Partnership for Public Service, Jessie Klement of the Federal Managers Association, Beth Moten of the American Federation of Government Employees will talk about the proposed federal pay freeze and other issues affecting federal employees. January 20, 2011