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The Army\'s electronic warfare capabilities have been an important tool during the war in Iraq. They\'ve taken a big evolutionary step with the new Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool. It\'s designed to give soldiers more options in dealing with improvised explosive devices, and it won\'t necessarily destroy local infrastructure when deployed. Col. Joseph Dupont, the Project Manager of the Electronic Warfare office, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the tool.
April 16, 2015 -
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VA told Congress Wednesday that it wants to complete construction on its controversial hospital complex in Aurora, Colorado, by tapping into a fund that was supposed to cut down on patient wait times. Some members of Congress expressed frustration with the plan. \"You\'ve put us in the ultimate catch-22, because we don\'t want to go forward and we can\'t quit,\" Rep. David Roe told VA officials at yesterday\'s hearing.
April 16, 2015 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is asking Congress for more than a $1 billion more than its original budget for a hospital in Denver, Colorado. The House Veterans Affairs Committee looked at the problems with the hospital, and other construction project problems at the VA, at a hearing today with officials from VA. Sen. Johnny Isakson (D-Ga.) is the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said he\'s about to start following the VA\'s construction problems very closely.
April 15, 2015 -
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The Senate votes 54-43 today to start budget negotiations with the House of Representatives to work out a compromise on a budget resolution. But the Appropriations committees and the committees of jurisdiction over the agencies still have a lot of work to do. A lot of that work will revolve around the defense budget. Bob Hale is former Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller, and now a Fellow at Booz Allen. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he offered a caution about jumping to conclusions about the budget.
April 15, 2015 -
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Tracking munitions is a costly and time-consuming process for military units. They can\'t afford to waste cartridges, missiles or grenades. Lockheed Martin has developed a new system that works around many of the challenges of tracking RFID tags remotely. It\'s called the Rubee Weapon Shot Counter, and it could potentially save the Defense Department millions. Dr. Rob Smith, the vice president of C4ISR Systems for Lockheed Martin\'s Information Systems and Global Solutions, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to dive deeper into the Rubee\'s uses.
April 15, 2015 -
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Marine Corps leaders say the forthcoming policy will emphasize commanders\' responsibility to understand cyberspace, build it into their operational plans, and integrate it with existing concepts for electronic warfare.
April 15, 2015 -
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On the road to better, more cost-effective government, Congress will have to consider consolidating military health care and ramping up tax enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service, the comptroller general says.
April 14, 2015 -
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The Navy and Air Force contemplate partnering up to develop the next generation of fighters, which are currently due out in 2030. Rear Adm. Mike Manazir is the director of Air Warfare for the Navy. He says the goal is to develop a successor that fits both services\' goals. On the Federal Drive at the Sea-Air-Space 2015 conference at National Harbor, Manazir gave Federal News Radio\'s Emily Kopp his vision for the future of naval aviation.
April 14, 2015 -
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What are the U.S. Army\'s key strategic and operational objectives? How is the Army restructuring its aviation portfolio? How is the Army using analytics to inform decision-making and resource allocation? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and so much more with Brigadier General John Ferrari, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the U.S. Army\'s deputy chief of staff.
April 14, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is creating a new commodity technology shared service provider to serve the Pentagon and other locations in the Washington, D.C. area. DoD will issue a memo in the coming weeks to merge the Army\'s IT agency and other IT service providers into the Defense Information System Agency. In his biweekly feature, \"Inside the Reporter\'s Notebook,\" executive editor Jason Miller has exclusive details of this new shared services set up. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review them.
April 13, 2015 -
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A number of veterans organization are suing the Veterans Affairs Department over a new rule regarding disability claims. The rule only went into effect a week ago, but the lawsuit claims it\'s eliminated most informal VA claims, and limits the types of claims VA can adjudicate. One change means that letters written into VA no longer count as claims; now everything has to be on a standardized form. Ron Abrams is a former VA staff member, and now the joint executive director of the National Veterans Legal Services Program. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the lawsuit and its ramifications.
April 13, 2015 -
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The Navy says its aging fleet of nuclear-armed submarines can\'t last much longer. The Ohio-class subs now doing the job were supposed to be retired years ago. But replacing them is complicated and costly. It\'s also the Navy\'s top shipbuilding priority. Rear Adm. Joseph Tofalo, the Navy\'s director of undersea warfare, spoke about the Ohio replacement program at Sea-Air-Space 2015. He joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with a preview.
April 13, 2015 -
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As much attention as the Veterans Affairs senior executive responsible for oversight of the debacle in Boulder, Colorado of the construction of a new hospital left, his replacement got strikingly little fanfare.
April 13, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is creating a single shared-services office for all commodity information technology for the Washington metro area and placing it under the Defense Information Systems Agency.
April 13, 2015
