SDFM The Business of Defense
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"Next Food Network Star" chef-testant Malcolm Mitchell Neighborhood Restaurant Group CEO Michael Babin Kosher pastry chef and best-selling cookbook author, Paula Shoyer Emily Sprissler, Top Chef (Season 2) contestant and chef/owner of DC's new Mayfair & Pine Perry Smith and mixologist Justin Sins of Matchbox, Ted's Bulletin and DC 9 Mitch Berliner of Central Farm Markets
June 07, 2012 -
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Robert Weidmaier, chef/owner of Brasserie Beck, Marcel's, Brabo, The Tasting Room and Mussel Bar, in talking about Belgian Restaurant Week L'Academie de Cuisine's Chef Patrice Olivon, with a demo of seasonal recipes Chef Rob Weland of Cork Wine Bar, discussing his new summer, "whole animal" grillouts Tiffany Soto, sake sommelier from Pabu, in the Four Seasons, Baltimore
June 07, 2012 -
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The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday awarded Lockheed Martin Corp a contract to retrofit 40 F-22 fighter aircraft with an automatic backup oxygen supply after some pilots experienced oxygen deprivation when flying the supersonic plane. Reuters reports the contract is worth $19 million, runs through April 2013, and includes retrofitting 10 spare aircraft. Currently oxygen supply requires manual activation by the F-22 Raptor pilot.
June 07, 2012 -
The following is a full transcript of FedCentral’ s interview with Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab and Faculty Associate, Harvard University Center for International Development and JR Reagan, Principal and Federal Chief Innovation…
June 06, 2012 -
With increased budget constraints, how can agency leaders engage in new and existing innovations that encourage effective collaboration between the public and private sector? Tune-in as César Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab and JR Reagan, Principal, Deloitte & Touch LLP discuss innovation and its role in the Federal government.
June 06, 2012 -
An American general has been replaced after reports quoted him as saying U.S. and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea on espionage missions. Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley was quoted as making the comments during a conference in Florida last month. Both he and the military later said that no special operation forces have been sent into North Korea. The U.S. military command in Seoul said Tuesday the departure of Tolley is a routine personnel change.
June 06, 2012 -
Efficient recruitment and hiring practices might seem like a hard get at a high-security agency like NSA. But Kathy Hutson, the director of human resources at the National Security Agency, says the hiring protocols at her agency today demostrate all the reforms the Office of Personnel Management is recommending for the rest of government.
June 06, 2012 -
Kathy Hutson is the director of human resources at the National Security Agency.
June 05, 2012 -
The United States and Vietnam have exchanged artifacts of war, including a U.S. soldier's written account of life under fire before his death and a Vietnam trooper's diary held for over 40 years by an American GI. At a ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnamese defense minister Phung Quang Thanh delivered the letters to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who in turn gave Thanh the small maroon diary taken from the body of the Vietnamese man by a U.S. service member who brought it home with him.
June 05, 2012