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  • 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.

    December 30, 2011
  • When it comes to shoveling it, official Washington is years ahead of anybody else. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this applies to snow-day policy matters too.

    December 30, 2011
  • The year can be summed up by a trio of showdowns, said Peter Schroeder, a staff writer with The Hill newspaper, in an interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. The near-government shutdown in April, the August debt ceiling showdown and the last-minute wrangling over the payroll tax cut.

    December 29, 2011
  • Davis retired after 42 years in government. She said she\'s tried to live by a few basic principles, get the job done, get it done right and get it done on time.

    December 29, 2011
  • President Barack Obama has promised to end homelessness among veterans within three years. He\'s made it a high-priority goal, challenging agencies to meet it without additional resources or laws. Officials say they\'re on track thanks to a unique collaboration between two agencies and dozens of local partners is focusing on the toughest cases.

    December 29, 2011
  • The Defense Department\'s Combat Feeding Directorate oversees the nutritional requirements and changing tastes of America\'s fighting force when designing its MREs, or meals ready-to-eat.

    December 29, 2011
  • The Defense Department recognized the National Defense University\'s iCollege for developing the online cyber defense workshop and for fostering global collaboration on cyber defense issues.

    December 29, 2011
  • 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.

    December 29, 2011
  • Would you take a buyout if the boss offered you one? You might want to decide now because if and when an offer comes, it won\'t be on the table very long, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    December 29, 2011
  • The new Predator-B Unmanned Aerial System will be the fourth launched at at the National Air Security Operations Center in Sierra Vista, Ariz., and the second of two aircrafts earmarked in an August 2010 budget supplemental.

    December 28, 2011
  • The Energy Department is one of six agencies testing a framework aimed at revamping one of the thorniest issues in government: how supervisors evaluate employees. Chief Human Capital Officer Mike Kane led a working group of more than 100 union, management and government representatives who drafted the framework. He earned the \"Chief Human Capital Officer of the Year\" award from the CHCO Council.

    December 28, 2011
  • Beginning Jan. 1, the department will discontinue paper U.S. savings bonds in favor of an all-electronic format. The move has been planned for a number of months, but Treasury \"reiterated\" the move this week with an announcement on its website and a timeline presenting the 76-year history of the bonds.

    December 28, 2011
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    December 28, 2011
  • In a break from the Cold War mass-mobilization model, the Army is considering the Army Force Generation, or ARFOGEN, model as a way to find efficiency and savings in the equipping process.

    December 28, 2011