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Alan Chvotkin, the vice president and general counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what industry would like to see in a final bill.
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Tim McManus, the vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, which operates and organizes the ceremony, joined In Depth with Francis Rose with how you can write a winning Sammies nomination for a co-worker or outstanding federal worker you know.
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Agencies are increasing the number of disabled veterans in their ranks as they try to fulfill White House hiring mandates. But there\'s still a lot of unease about how disabled vets will fit into civilian environments. \"The civilian workplace is a really bizarre place\" for veterans, said workforce and diversity consultant Lisa Stern at a recent training she gave federal hiring officials in Bethesda.
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Agencies can give an American flag to the survivors of a federal employee who is killed in the line of duty under a bill passed Thursday by the Senate. The House unanimously approved the measure last month.
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The service will reissue two major pieces of the draft RFP for comment. The Navy said it will not release the final RFP before the end of January.
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House Republicans unveiled their plan for extending the payroll tax cut Friday, which includes proposals to extend a federal pay freeze and makes changes to federal employees\' retirement.
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Terry Halvorsen, the chief information officer at the Navy, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the Navy\'s efforts to attract small-business IT contractors.
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Bob Otto, former USPS CIO, and Dan Mintz, former Transportation Department CIO, count down the top federal news stories of the week.
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The Defense Manpower Data Center has a number of responsibilities with respect to DoD. Mary Dixon, the director of the DMDC joined Jared Serbu for an interview on Federal News Radio\'s weekly defense program, On DoD.
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The faceoff between the Navy Midshipmen and the Army Black Knights is almost here, and the pre-game anticipation has already spread to Twitter.
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Former Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani could face death by hanging if an investigation into whether he committed \"high treason\" finds him guilty. He\'s been accused of sending a memo to U.S. military authorities asking them to intervene against the Pakistani military after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Pakistani media say Mansour Ijaz, the man who exposed the memo, was friends with Haqqani and allegedly betrayed his trust after the ISI discovered the memo.
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What was going on the Pakistani side of the border when a NATO airstrike? Exactly what happened in the attack is unclear. U.S officialshave said that Pakistani officials had cleared the NATO air strike, unaware they had troops in the area. A Pakistani official said that is not the case. The official said Pakistani troops fired illumination rounds into the sky to investigate ground movement. At that point the official said NATO began attacking and continued doing so for more than an hour after the Pakistani military notified them of what had happened.
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U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence says Nigerian based radical Islamic group Boko Haram is a threat to the U.S. Homeland. They also say in Boko Haram - Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland, \"U.S. Intelligence Community largely underestimated the potential for Al Qaeda affiliate groups to target the U.S. homeland. The report also says wrongly assessing they had only regional ambitions and threats against the U.S. homeland were merely aspirational.\"U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence says Nigerian based radical Islamic group Boko Haram is a threat to the U.S. Homeland. They also say in Boko Haram - Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland, \"U.S. Intelligence Community largely underestimated the potential for Al Qaeda affiliate groups to target the U.S. homeland. The report also says wrongly assessing they had only regional ambitions and threats against the U.S. homeland were merely aspirational.\"
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Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces. The project, funded by the Pentagon\'s research arm, was described by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. as 5 inches long. Its four legs can be separately controlled by pumping air into the limbs, either manually or via computer. This obot a range of motions including crawling and slithering.
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