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  • If your company wins a federal contract from an incumbent contractor you must hire the incumbent’s employees, under a new final rule issued by Labor. The rule applies to service contracts valued at more than…

    August 31, 2011
  • These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today. The biggest complaint about the Thrift Savings Plan comes from people outside government. That complaint is: they can’t get into the TSP! But…

    August 31, 2011
  • Two of the eight members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan join In Depth to explain the recommendations in the commission\'s final report.

    August 31, 2011
  • The Federal Trade Commission is using enterprise architecture make its technology backbone faster, more efficient and able to run mobile devices.

    August 31, 2011
  • General David Petraeus is separating from the military today. He graduated from West Point in 1974 and embarked on a career that made him famous in 2007 as the architect of the U.S. Iraq war strategy. He stressed the importance of increasing Iraqi governmental capacity, development of employment programs, and improving daily life for its citizens. This in turned many Iraqis against Al Qaida in Iraq. Petraeus\'s next move is to the CIA, where he\'ll be the director.

    August 31, 2011
  • A soldier from Loudoun County, Va., has been killed in Afghanistan. Twenty-three-year-old Specialist Douglas J. Green of Sterling, Va., died Sunday in Kandahar province in Afghanistan, of injuries he suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. Green was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

    August 31, 2011
  • Tom Trabucco from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board joins us to discsuss everything TSP. Plus, Sean Reilly from the Federal Times gives us the latest on cuts coming to the U.S. Postal Service. August 31, 2011

    August 31, 2011
  • More than 3,000 job ads, looking for people with cloud computing skills, were placed online in July. That’s an increase of 68 percent over July 2010, according to WANTED Analytics. Not surprisingly, Washington, D.C. was listed as one of the five cities where hiring demand for positions with cloud skills was highest. Others included Seattle, [...]

    August 31, 2011
  • Erik Wasson, a staff writer for The Hill newspaper, joined the Federal Drive for a preview of the the congressional calendar as Congress prepares to return from recess and only a month remains left of the fiscal year.

    August 31, 2011
  • Dr. Walter Koroshetz, the deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH, joined the Federal Drive to discuss efforts at creating a traumatic brain injury database to improve treatment options.

    August 31, 2011
  • Thomas Roth-Roffy, a Marine engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board, joined the Federal Drive to discuss new cell phone guidance for the Coast Guard.

    August 31, 2011
  • Tim Manning, the deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the agency\'s role in national preparedness month. He also discussed how the agency has evolved since it was absorbed by DHS in 2003.

    August 31, 2011
  • Booz Allen Hamilton will host its annual Preparedness Day Sept. 9. The company is inviting speakers to examine the evolution of domestic preparedness and the emergence of cyber threats to the United States.

    August 31, 2011
  • will be sworn in as the nation\'s spy chief on September 6th, less than a week before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks

    August 31, 2011