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Soon the Pentagon and Google will be neighbors. The Defense Department is establishing a presence in Silicon Valley. The goal is to attract top tech talent to government work. Just taking that step might not be enough though. Peter Newell, former director of the Rapid Equipping Force at the Army and now managing partner at BMNT Partners, explains the challenges DoD will face on In Depth with Francis Rose.
July 01, 2015-
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he thinks negotiators from the House Armed Services Committee and his committee will wrap up their discussions within the next week or so. Language on defense procurement in both bills is part of the negotiation going on right now between the two committees. Jon Etherton, principal of Etherton & Associates, explains the similarities and differences in the two bills on In Depth with Francis Rose.
July 01, 2015 -
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The U.S. far ahead of any potential adversary in its ability to strike where and when it wants. But the gap is shrinking. Sustaining America's Precision Strike Advantage is the latest release from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Bryan Clark and Mark Gunzinger are senior fellows there and co-authors of the work. They joined Francis Rose on Pentagon Solutions to talk about the importance of the U.S. maintaining its precision strike advantage.
July 01, 2015 The federal government keeps meticulous records on the past performance of contractors in order to help agencies decide whether to award more work to those firms in the future. But that’s not true when it comes to grants to local governments and nonprofits. Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the White House wants to create a governmentwide repository of how grant dollars have been used in the past.
June 30, 2015-
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Congress is working on two bills that impact the Thrift Savings Plan. But this time you don't need to worry about someone messing up a good thing. Kim Weaver is director of external affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose how both bills may affect you.
June 30, 2015 It's been more than three months since astronaut and flight engineer Scott Kelly joined the Expedition 43 crew aboard the International Space Station. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend about a year living and working aboard the station to help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space. Shortly before the failure of a third try at getting supplies to the Space Station, Kelly joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an update on the mission. He says astronauts don't feel isolated.
June 30, 2015-
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The Defense Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided a lift to the future of mobile computing in the government. DoD announced it moved its classified mobile capability from a pilot stage…
June 30, 2015 -
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The Defense Department and General Services Administration have an information sharing problem. They aren't sharing information about space that's available on military installations and about the agencies that could use it. Brian Lepore is director of defense capabilities and management issues at the GAO. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how the two agencies can improve that collaboration.
June 29, 2015 -
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Better Buying Power at the Pentagon is only one example of attempts to innovate in the acquisition space. The new acquisition corps that's set up like the U.S. Digital Services office is another one, but it's focused on policy and process. Michael Fischetti is executive director of the National Contract Management Association. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that government spends too much time thinking about process -- and not enough about people.
June 29, 2015 -
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The federal government awarded 24.99 percent of its prime contract dollars to small firms during fiscal 2014, the largest percentage on record. But Congressional overseers called the administration’s statistics misleading since they do not account for tens of billions of dollars in federal spending.
June 29, 2015 -
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About 63 organizations will benefit from this new service provider, Greg Garcia, the executive director of the Army IT Agency, tells Federal News Radio.
June 29, 2015
