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This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" former Rep. Patrick Murphy (Pa.) discusses his MSNBC program, "Taking the Hill with Patrick Murphy," to bring attention to veterans issues. AFGE Legislative and Political Director Beth Moten previews the union's Legislative and Grassroots Mobilization Conference Feb. 9 - 12 while Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul details the latest manufacturing jobs numbers. National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare's Web Phillips reacts to service reductions at SSA.
January 15, 2014 -
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As we begin the new year, we thought this would be a good time to recap some of our conversations from the first six months of "AFCEA Answers" broadcasts. From cloud to tactical radios, mobility to cybersecurity, and even a friendly debate about big data in the intelligence community, we'll have it all for you. Including top guests from government, industry and academia.
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The platform, called Acropolis, is initially being used only for network operations and cybersecurity data, but officials plan to expand it to help solve big data challenges around financial and acquisition information.
January 15, 2014 -
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Ravee Kurian and David Blackburn from Sapient will discuss how federal agencies can implement digital strategies to improve outcomes and reduce costs. January 14, 2014
January 14, 2014 -
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President Barack Obama says former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a good friend and he did an outstanding job while at the Pentagon. He's was responding to questions about Gates' book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War," saying that his administration's policy in Afghanistan was the right one. In his book, Gates questions Obama's commitment to his war policy and talks about discontent among the team that made key decisions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama says that part of his job as commander in chief is to, quote, "sweat the details" on policies that send men and women into harms' way.
January 14, 2014 -
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Stan Kaczmarczyk Acting Director of GSA’s Office of Strategic Programs (OSP) Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) Stan Kaczmarczyk is acting Director of GSA’s Office of Strategic Programs at the Office of Integrated Technology Services…
January 14, 2014 -
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Government professionals are adopting mobile devices to enhance telework, improve communications, boost productivity and service their customers with greater ease. This discussion explores how agencies are managing costs, accessibility, and security requirements for mobile devices as well as discusses the current state of data privacy and steps agencies are taking to protect sensitive data and citizens' rights to privacy.
January 14, 2014 -
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Responding to criticism of NSA surveillance by the New America Foundation, ODNI spokesman Mike Birmingham says "As intelligence officials and congressional intelligence overseers have said, the bulk metadata program is a valuable tool for discovering potential links between terrorists abroad and those in the U.S. with whom they collaborate." But Birmingham says, "it's important to keep the program in perspective. This is one of many programs the Intelligence Community uses to identify, track, and disrupt the activities of our adversaries, including terrorists."
January 14, 2014 -
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Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Mark Amtower to talk about a number of Federal IT issues. January 13, 2014
January 13, 2014 -
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With so much gloom and doom about Cyber vulnerabilities, the Rand Corporation has some good news. In his book Cyberdeterrence and Cyber war, Martin Libicki puts it into perspective --suggesting Cyberspace has its own laws; for instance, it is easy to hide identities and difficult to predict or even understand battle damage, and attacks deplete themselves quickly. But the overall message is… cyber war is nothing so much as the manipulation of ambiguity.
January 13, 2014 -
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What's the best thing you can do for your computer? Make sure that it's secure. Kaspersky Lab says you should don't invite bugs and malware in by allowing your computer systems to become outdated. The security company urges you to install operating system and application updates as soon as they're available. It also suggests using your software's built-in systems, and don't ignore the prompts they give you to update your computer security.
January 13, 2014 -
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Dave Bowen, the director of health care IT and CIO of the Defense Health Agency, joined Federal News Radio for an online chat on Monday, Jan. 13. View the archived discussion now.
January 13, 2014 -
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Electronic health records can make collecting and storing patient data easier, but they can make it easier to commit fraud, too. The Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Department says EHR technologies can hide who wrote the records, and also change the data to fake a healthcare claim. The IG investigated the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its contractors to see what protections they're adding to their record systems. So far, almost nothing. The Inspector General says only a few of the CMS contractors have system protections tailored to electronic health records. And CMS is only providing limited guidance at best. The IG is recommending the agency update its guidance for contractors and work with them to develop new ways to protect the data.
January 13, 2014 -
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A cybersecurity executive from the Department of Veterans Affairs is moving to the private sector. Don Sheehan is now the Vice President of Cybersecurity Solutions at the company Accelera Solutions...they're a cloud and virtualization contracting company. He previously served as Director of Business Continuity at the V-A. He was also part of the V-A's Office of Information Security since 2003 and helped lead the department's response to Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Sheehan also helped lead the creation of the VA Trusted Internet Connection gateways. At Accelera Solutions, he'll try to expand the role of cloud systems at federal agencies...specifically from a cybersecurity perspective. The goal is to increase the reliance on cloud technologies to IMPROVE cybersecurity at the federal and commercial level.
January 13, 2014
