ASMC The Business of Defense

  • On this program, we survey the intersection where leadership, complex challenges, and the need for transformation meet. Our guests are Dr. Paul Anastas, Linda Gibbs, Robert Hale, David Lebryk, David Matsuda, Beth McGrath, Dr. Kathleen Merrigan, Dr. Nick Nayak, and Jonathan Woodson, M.D. Hear their insights, lessons learned, and recommendations.

    December 19, 2011
  • Is your IT shop actively involved in your telework program? Here\'s a few reason they should be.

    December 18, 2011
  • Roger Platt of the U.S. Green Building Council, joins host Debra Roth to talk about what the government is doing to be more environmentally friendly. December 16, 2011

    December 16, 2011
  • This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government\" National President John Gage and National Secretary-Treasurer J. David Cox detail the union\'s agenda for 2012. Gage also addresses the budget fight in Washington while Cox discusses the need to properly care for the country\'s veterans. AFGE Local 3258 member Mark Butler also highlights his book, \"The Coffee Break Guide for Veterans Seeking Federal Employment.\"

    December 14, 2011
  • Moorenko Ice Cream founder Susan Soorenko Will Sexton, oyster shucker extraordinaire at Todd Gray\'s Watershed Former NBA player Jason Miskiri - proprietor of the new Society Lounge in Silver Spring Perez Klebahn, proprietor/bartender at Mr. Rain\'s Funhouse

    December 12, 2011
  • Pt. 1 - Building Teams Pt. 2 - Mary Agee, President and CEO of Northern Virginia Family Service

    December 12, 2011
  • Security is a major telework concern for the Library of Congress and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. But, both agencies have found ways to make it work for them.

    December 11, 2011
  • Former Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani could face death by hanging if an investigation into whether he committed \"high treason\" finds him guilty. He\'s been accused of sending a memo to U.S. military authorities asking them to intervene against the Pakistani military after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Pakistani media say Mansour Ijaz, the man who exposed the memo, was friends with Haqqani and allegedly betrayed his trust after the ISI discovered the memo.

    December 09, 2011
  • What was going on the Pakistani side of the border when a NATO airstrike? Exactly what happened in the attack is unclear. U.S officialshave said that Pakistani officials had cleared the NATO air strike, unaware they had troops in the area. A Pakistani official said that is not the case. The official said Pakistani troops fired illumination rounds into the sky to investigate ground movement. At that point the official said NATO began attacking and continued doing so for more than an hour after the Pakistani military notified them of what had happened.

    December 09, 2011
  • U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence says Nigerian based radical Islamic group Boko Haram is a threat to the U.S. Homeland. They also say in Boko Haram - Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland, \"U.S. Intelligence Community largely underestimated the potential for Al Qaeda affiliate groups to target the U.S. homeland. The report also says wrongly assessing they had only regional ambitions and threats against the U.S. homeland were merely aspirational.\"U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence says Nigerian based radical Islamic group Boko Haram is a threat to the U.S. Homeland. They also say in Boko Haram - Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland, \"U.S. Intelligence Community largely underestimated the potential for Al Qaeda affiliate groups to target the U.S. homeland. The report also says wrongly assessing they had only regional ambitions and threats against the U.S. homeland were merely aspirational.\"

    December 09, 2011