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Mark Bennington, the executive director for acquisition management at the Navy research unit joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss his department\'s approach to the thorny issues involved in OCIs.
September 27, 2011 -
Former \"e-gov Czar\" Mark Forman joins host Mark Amtower on today\'s program. September 26, 2011
September 26, 2011 -
George Schindler, currently president of CGI Federal, will be president of U.S. operations, effective Oct. 1, and Donna Ryan will replace Schindler as president, subject to the approval of the Defense Security Service (DSS).
September 26, 2011 -
Time for lawmakers to pass a continuing resolution is running short as the fiscal year ends Friday. The Senate rejected the House version of CR Friday, and will take up debate on its version Monday afternoon. In the meantime, cuts to GAO and the E-Government Fund are drawing ire from supporters.
September 26, 2011 -
The Homeland Security Department remains committed to consolidating its headquarters on the campus of a former mental hospital in Washington despite receiving less construction money than anticipated. Officials from DHS, the Coast Guard and the General Services Administration reaffirmed their plans to a House subcommittee. The Coast Guard plans to move first, in 2013.
September 23, 2011 -
The U.S. is beefing up security at the Guantanamo war crimes court as it prepares for another round of tribunals.
September 23, 2011 -
Agency CIO Casey Coleman said the move to Google\'s gmail went smoothly and is 99 percent complete. GSA recently hired another cloud service provider to host collaboration tools. Coleman said the agency now is looking at legacy business systems. September 22, 2011
September 22, 2011 -
Jimenez joined Francis Rose to discuss how government business has changed in the past year and what areas he expands to shrink and expand in the coming years.
September 22, 2011 -
Bajinder Paul, senior IT adviser at the General Services Administration, discusses the solutions to some of those planning challenges.
September 22, 2011 -
The proposal by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) would establish no more than 20 industries as categories and size standards based on the current Economic Census.
September 22, 2011 -
Kaitlin Lee, senior developer for the Sunlight Foundation, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the group\'s recent \"ClearSpending\" report, which found that agencies misreport data on USASpending.gov.
September 22, 2011 -
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to hold the number of federal employees stable for the foreseeable future. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he also wants to look at the size of the agency\'s contractor workforce as well. The freeze was approved in the committee\'s first-ever DHS reauthorization bill.
September 22, 2011 -
Do you get enough benefits from using sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to make it worth your time? Amtower Off Center\'s Mark Amtower offers some tips.
September 21, 2011 -
The United States is concerned about recent cyber attacks on defense contractors in Japan, according to Reuters. Some of the targeted contractors also build U.S.-designed missiles, warships and military aircraft.
September 21, 2011 -
The service no can longer pump money into ambitions that don\'t offer any immediate prospect of payoff, especially if those projects don\'t promise to deliver something the Air Force truly needs, the service\'s top officer said Tuesday.
September 21, 2011