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  • Agency CIOs need to find creative ways to lower the cost of their technology services. DHS is testing the concept of "workplace-as-a-service." OMB soon will issue a new shared services architecture to help agencies understand how best to move to enterprisewide systems.

    October 25, 2011
  • Saving money on long-term care insurance premiums is easy: All you need is to sign up a couple of weeks before a stroke or accident makes it impossible for you to dress, bathe, eat or get in and out of bed. If you don\'t know that horrible, magic moment, check out Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s column today.

    October 25, 2011
  • The Department of Energy\'s Idaho National Laboratory awarded a contract to Unisys Corporation to transition 5,000 users to Google\'s cloud-based email.

    October 25, 2011
  • The center has also established internships at the National Security Agency and the National Defense University.The goal is to build awareness among officers of what strategists consider the fifth domain of warfare.

    October 25, 2011
  • The Pentagon wants to promote drug awareness and to prevent illegal drug use among service members and their families.

    October 25, 2011
  • Eric Leeds, the director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss recommendations made in the aftermath of the Japanese nuclear crisis.

    October 25, 2011
  • David Snell, the director of retirement benefits at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how the COLA bump affects feds differently.

    October 25, 2011
  • Bruce Levinson, with the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, joined the with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the center\'s recent survey on agency FISMA compliance.

    October 25, 2011
  • The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Amy Morris 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.

    October 25, 2011
  • OPM developing competency models for performance improvement officers and chief operating officers as part of its requirements under the GPRA Modernization Act. DHS moves to agile development to fix the HSIN program. NIST to update HSPD-12 card requirements to meet mobile needs.

    October 25, 2011
  • Military services and agencies, alike, are under pressure from senior defense officials to find savings from IT Rob Carey, DoD's deputy CIO said at the annual Executive Leadership Conference. In the coming weeks, Defense CIO Teri Takai will issue a memo detailing a new strategy for bringing existing consolidation and standardization efforts together. The budget pressures have helped push the department out in front of emerging cyber and mobile technologies.

    October 25, 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.

    October 25, 2011
  • The three agencies have joined a growing number that are offering incentive payments for employees to leave the payroll. Federal News Radio provides a roundup of recent buyout offers.

    October 24, 2011
  • Federal News Radio's Jason Miller has an update from ELC 2011.

    October 24, 2011