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Rep. Mary Bono Mack announced she wants a briefing on the recent wave of cyber attacks and whether public disclosure would help or hurt efforts to combat cyber crime.
Arthur Stein, a certified financial planner with SPC Financial, joined the Federal Drive to discuss how the recent downgrade of the government\'s credit rating could affect federal retirement accounts.
On today\'s Federal Drive: USPS announced it\'s considering massive job cuts, Veterans Affairs large-scale IT contract under siege from bid protests and expanded benefits to the post-9/11 GI Bill.
Getting and keeping a security clearance is vital in a growing number of federal jobs. And useful when feds retire and go into the private sector. But are those all-important clearances going to be harder to get, and keep in the future? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains. (This column was originally published on July 13, 2011.)
Steve Bell, the senior director of the economic policy project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joined the Federal Drive to discuss what the super committee tasked with trimming trillions from the federal deficit means for federal agencies.
The GAO found the State Department had improved real-time awareness of cyber vulnerabilites, however it still has some areas to cover, according to the watchdog agency\'s latest report.
The list of members of Congress that will make up the \"Super Committee\" responsible for finding more than a trillion dollars in deficit cuts is filling out.
Longer life spans and limited interest among providers may have driven up premium costs under the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP).
David Wise, the Government Accountabilty Office\'s director of physical infrastructure issues, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the agency\'s recent report that deemed federal real property high-risk because of an overreliance on leasing. GAO said it\'s often cheaper to actually own property rather than renting.
Dan Adcock is the legislative director for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.
The top four civilian agencies can do a better job in the planning stages for service contracts, according to a new Government Accountability Office.
A bipartisan group of congressmen have introduced legislation to let FAA employees receive back pay for the two weeks that they were furloughed. Senate Democrats have introduced a similar bill.
The Government Accountability Office says a State Department program designed to help its managers mitigate IT risks fails to provide a complete view of those risks.
Postal Service officials said they will be insolvent by the end of September unless Congress gives them more control and flexibility over their finances. The USPS board of governors met Friday as the organization reported a third-quarter loss of $3.1 billion.