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On this week's Agency of the Month show, Peter Spencer discusses how budget uncertainty is negatively impacting the agency.
November 01, 2013 -
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The Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning, now known as Chelsea, has written a letter to her lawyer saying she'll go to court if necessary to get treatment for gender identity disorder. Manning is serving a 35-year sentence for sending more than 700,000 secret military and State Department documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
November 01, 2013 -
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Iftikhar Jamil, the associate chief information officer for weather at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the National Weather Service moved its high performance computing capabilities to a private cloud and is developing dissemination-as-a-service. October 31, 2013
October 31, 2013 -
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On this week's Agency of the Month show, Jennifer Carter from DISA discusses how her office is working to get the latest technology to war fighters as quickly as possible.
October 31, 2013 -
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What are the Defense Logistics Agency's strategic priorities? How is DLA working to reduce costs while improving support to the warfighter? What about DLA's role in providing humanitarian assistance & disaster relief support? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and so much more with our VADM Mark D. Harnitchek, Director of the Defense Logistics Agency. VADM Mark D. Harnitchek Director Defense Logistics Agency
October 31, 2013 -
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If your agency is still running Windows XP on its desktop computers, Microsoft has published a new reason to switch to Windows 7 or 8. The company's latest Security Intelligence Report shows XP computers are hit with malware infections at twice the rate of machines running the other OSes. More than nine percent of XP machines were infected through June of this year, versus five percent for Windows 7 and 1 point 4 percent for Windows 8. Microsoft reports, overall fewer computers are encountering malware attacks, so fewer are succumbing to them. The report shows enterprise computers tend to be better protected than individual consumer ones. Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP this coming April.
October 31, 2013 -
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The National Security Agency is secretly tapping into Yahoo and Google data centers, and accessing much more information than previously thought. The Washington Post broke the news after analyzing more documents taken from the NSA by former analyst Edward Snowden. The revelations raise questions of whether the NSA is breaking federal wiretap laws. In response, the agency says it does not use the method to collect vast quantities of data on Americans. And it says it is not using a presidential order to get around limitations imposed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
October 31, 2013 -
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The Associated Press is reporting negotiators from the House and Senate are promising to try to reach an agreement that would spare both the Pentagon and domestic agencies from automatic spending cuts, the result of Washington's failure to strike a budget deal. But taxes, again appear to be in the way -- with top GOP negotiator Paul Ryan taking a firm stance against using tax revenues to ease the automatic cuts.
October 31, 2013 -
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This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran opposes a Customs and Border Protection proposal that would mandate the use of cameras in vehicles and on Border Patrol agents. Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund Communications and Development Director Robyn Kehoe details FEEA's efforts to help federal employees furloughed due to sequestration and the government shutdown. AFGE TSA Local 556 President Don Thomas and DoD Local 2516 President Paul Ferris also appear.
October 31, 2013 -
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Army Research Lab is partnering with universities and scientists to explore the psychology behind cybersecurity.
October 31, 2013 -
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In a message to senior executives, Secretary Eric Shinseki said that Stephen Warren now will hold the title of executive in charge, Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer. The title change comes as the House Veterans Affairs Committee is turning up on the heat once again on the agency's ability to secure its systems and protect data.
October 30, 2013 -
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The Defense Information Systems Agency took two big steps toward consolidation of information technology infrastructure before the government shutdown in October. Data centers in Dayton, Ohio, and Chambersburg, Pa., were closed on the first of the month. Functions at those centers were moved to other Defense Enterprise Computing Centers (DECCs).
October 30, 2013 -
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Lockheed Martin's Cyber Security Alliance is adding three members. Red Hat, Fire Eye, and Splunk will join the consortium to "help create intelligence-driven defense products," at the company's NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center. Learn more about how the companies will contribute to the Alliance at Federal News Radio dot com slash In Depth.
October 30, 2013 -
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Everyone does it. National Intelligence Director James Clapper told Congress, spying on foreign leaders is a two way street. European allies are guilty of it too. The head of the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, said it was the Europeans, not the US, who did a surveillance sweep on phone records overseas. REUTERS is reporting, Chinese officials say they'll ramp up information security amid allegations that the National Security Agency is spying on European allies.
October 30, 2013
