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The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is raising concerns about the U.S. deal with Afghanistan giving Afghans authority over raids of Afghan homes. The Associated Press reports, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday questioning the decision to grant authority to a panel of Afghan security officials to decide what raids will take place. The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on the raids. A majority of these raids occur at night and involve U.S. and Afghan troops.
April 13, 2012 -
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The Department of Health and Human Services says new federal laws designed to fight medicare fraud are paying dividends. HHS says it recovered 4.1 billion dollars in fraudulent claims last year. And the number of fraud prosecutions was up 75 percent compared with fiscal year 2008. HHS also revoked almost 5,000 Medicaid providers and 57,000 Medicare providers, and used computerized edits to stop more than 200 million dollars in implausible claims before they went out the door, and turned into improper payments.
April 12, 2012 -
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The Defense Department is just weeks away from launching its own internal app store for DoD users. And along with the store, the Pentagon is promising a faster securing approval process to bring more consumer mobile devices into military use. The new store is part of DoD's first ever department-wide framework for mobile devices, being led by the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA says the store will take a federated approach, and let the military services aggregate their work on mobile applications all in one place.
April 12, 2012 -
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A Pennsylvania man is being awarded the Air Force's highest honor. Capt. Barry Crawford, Jr. will receive the Air Force Cross today at a Pentagon ceremony "extraordinary heroism". I happened 2010 during a fight with the Taliban. Crawford from Philadelphia, is a combat controller who calls in air strikes. During a14-hour operation, the Air Force says he fought insurgent, left his cover to save two wounded Afghans, all while controlling nearly three dozen aircraft and calling in more than 40 strikes.
April 12, 2012 -
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This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., addresses voter protection concerns ahead of the 2012 election season, and Alliance for American Manufacturing Executive Director Scott Paul discusses job creation and the state of U.S. manufacturing. Also, Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack discusses health care reform.
April 12, 2012 -
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The status of U.S. Pakistani military relations is still tied up in the Pakistani Parliament. Cooperation was suspended after a November incident during which 24 Pakistani troops were killed. Three weeks ago a preliminary review was approved by a Pakistani Parliamentary Committee, but the full Parliament rejected it and it was sent back to committee. In the meantime --U.S. troops are back in Pakistan at the Saichen Glacier to help out with rescue efforts, but Pakistani diplomatic sources say that won't affect the review.
April 11, 2012 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs and DoD are planning on rolling out some of the early work they've done on a joint health records system. V-A says a preliminary version of the integrated electronic health record will go online by next year at hospitals in Hampton Roads, Virginia and San Antonio, Texas. The system will include the joint graphical user interface the two departments have already built. VA and DoD have been working to integrate their records to provide better care to servicemembers as they transition out of the military and into V-A care.
April 10, 2012 -
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Federal agencies are committing a big chunk of money in hopes of making progress on the "big data" problem. Six federal agencies led by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health will commit up to 200 million dollars in a joint procurement aimed at coming up with better ways of managing ever growing, ever more complex data sets, and making all that information more useful. And several agencies are planning other big data procurements of their own, on top of the 200 million.
April 10, 2012 -
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Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test. The Associated Press reports South Korean intelligence officials say the excavation at North Korea's northeast Punggye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, is in its final stages. This new development comes as North Korea prepares to launch a long-range rocket that Washington and others say is a cover for testing missile technology that could be used to fire on the United States.
April 10, 2012 -
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Charles De Sanno from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Booz Allen Hamilton's Ilene Yarnoff will talk about mobile apps and mobile security issues in the federal workplace. April 6, 2012
April 06, 2012 -
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Admiral Papp leads the largest component DHS, comprised of 42,000 active duty, 8,200 Reserve, 8,000 civilian and 31,000 volunteer Auxiliarists.
April 05, 2012 -
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This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" U.S. Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Donna Christensen, D-Virgin Islands, discuss health care reform in the U.S. as the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden, Common Cause President and CEO and former Rep. Bob Edgar, D-Pa., and Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative President Vinny DeMarco also join the discussion.
April 04, 2012 -
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called Japanese Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka to discuss developments related to North Korea's announcement that it plans to conduct a missile launch in mid-April. The Pentagon says both reiterated their view that such a missile launch would directly violate North Korea's international obligations and UN Security Council Resolutions. Both leaders agreed to continue close contact leading up to and following a potential missile launch.
April 04, 2012 -
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Vice President for Policy Partnership for Public Service As Vice President for Policy at the Partnership for Public Service, John has responsibility for a comprehensive program of review and analyses of the human capital issues…
April 03, 2012
