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Pt. 1 - President Obama\'s American Jobs Act Pt. 2 - Brian Kennedy, Cardinal Bank
September 19, 2011 -
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David Hawkings is the editor of CQ Roll\'s Daily Briefing.
September 19, 2011 -
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The President said in a speech today that federal contractor executives are getting paid too much from the government.
September 19, 2011 -
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These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today. President Obama’s deficit reduction plan is out. The President talked about it in a speech today, and the Office of Management and Budget…
September 19, 2011 -
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The General Service Administration wants your input on how it can improve federal websites.
September 19, 2011 -
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When someone gets a serious disease and doctors don\'t know what it is, they call Dr. William Gahl, one of America\'s leading medical detectives.
September 19, 2011 -
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Los Angeles Air Force base is about to become the first federal facility that relies almost entirely on electric vehicle technology for its fleet. Within the next year, the Air Force will replace virtually all the vehicles on the base with plug-in electric technology. The only exceptions are emergency and security vehicles. The Air Force says the vehicles will not only get their power from the electric grid, but they\'ll be able to supply power back to the base in the event of an outage. The Pentagon plans to use the project as a test bed before it starts a large scale integration of electric vehicles into the Defense Department
September 19, 2011 -
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is laying the foundation for what could eventually become a nationwide, interoperable network of emergency communications for the nation\'s first responders. The 4G network would replace a hodgepodge of proprietary, local radio systems that can\'t communicate with each other, and don\'t have good data capabilities. NIST is asking for public comments on what the baseline features of the system should be, as they try to determine what capabilities are already available from commercial industry and which ones will have to be created through R&D efforts.
September 19, 2011 -
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The Department of Health and Human Services wants to use information technology to give patients greater access to their own health records. The agency is proposing new rules that would allow Americans to get direct, secure, electronic access to their own test results, directly from laboratories. HHS is also creating a template for electronic personal health records. The idea is to standardize the information in simple way, similar to nutrition facts labels. HHS thinks they\'ll help build public trust in the systems set up by personal health record companies.
September 19, 2011 -
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NASA has created its own data portal to consolidate its vast warehouse of digital information and share it with the public. Data.NASA.gov starts off with a collection of 500 datasets on topics ranging from climate to aeronautics to life sciences and six other categories. The open data project also includes a selection of widgets and tools to manipulate and search for information. NASA says it receives more than 4 terabytes of digital data, just from its spacecraft missions, every day.
September 19, 2011 -
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By Jolie Lee Federal News Radio Despite the “highly volatile” markets of the past few weeks, most Thrift Savings Plan participants have not moved too much between funds, said Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs…
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The Agriculture Department, the Energy Department and the Navy are turning to industry to try to leverage advanced technologies to produce a new generation of biofuels. A request for information they just issued says the private sector would have to match any federal funds the agencies spend. The three departments are willing to spend up to 500 million dollars to jumpstart an industry to produce fuels that could serve as drop-in replacements for jet fuel and diesel. The Navy is aiming to get half its energy from alternative sources by the year 2020.
September 19, 2011
