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  • The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness heard testimony on Acquisition and Disposal of Military Lands: Department of Defense’s Real Property Management Challenges in the 21st Century. Witnesses included Wayne Arny, Deputy Under Secretary of…

    February 24, 2009
  • One way President Obama’s team is different than President Bush’s team: executive experience. Clay Johnson headed President Bush’s transition team, and then segued to the job of Deputy Director for Management at the Office of…

    February 24, 2009
  • President Barack Obama is going to reveal his first federal budget on Thursday. Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has some predictions of his own for us.

    February 24, 2009
  • Forensic science in the U.S. needs to be fixed, according to a recent report from the National Research Council, a group started by Congress in 2007 for the specific purpose of looking at domestic forensic…

    February 24, 2009
  • President Obama covered a lot of ground at his economic event at the White House yesterday. Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Budget and Director of Fiscal Policy at the New America…

    February 24, 2009
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his semi-annual report to the Senate Banking Committee earlier today, saying the recession might end in the second half of this year. Phil Mattingly, economics reporter for CQPolitics.com, brings…

    February 24, 2009
  • The General Services Administration is moving its two flagship citizen websites, USA.gov and Gobierno.gov, to the cloud. Tom Freebairn, Acting Director of USA.gov technologies, told me why–and why your agency should think about it too.

    February 24, 2009
  • President Barack Obama has a lot on his plate, and finding a balance between domestic and foreign policy is an ever-present challenge. Some critics are saying the President’s foreign policy lacks cohesion and a central…

    February 24, 2009
  • As Federal News Radio has been telling you, the Census has been undergoing a lot of changes. The Commerce Department is gearing up for next year’s decennial census, but the Census Bureau has already started…

    February 24, 2009
  • Increasingly, the U.S. military is using unmanned aerial vehicles to wage war, sometimes those UAVs are flown by people based as far away from the front lines as, say, Nevada. How does that technology change…

    February 24, 2009
  • Christine Liu, CIO, The Small Business Administration February 26, 2009

    February 24, 2009
  • President Barack Obama’s third pick for Commerce Secretary could be announced soon. Sources in the White House are indicating President Obama will choose former Washington Governor Gary Locke for the job. CNN’s Dick Uliano joins…

    February 24, 2009
  • Official: Obama likely to name Locke to Commerce Watchdogs applaud Obama’s pick to oversee stimulus (GovExec.com) John Morton to Lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Secretary Napolitano Names Esther Olavarria as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy…

    February 24, 2009
  • There is all sorts of consternation right now about the stimulus bill. There is all sorts of concern about the money flow itself, which is more like a fire hose. Many agency executives are concerned…

    February 24, 2009