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ASMC The Business of Defense
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is not happy with the slow pace of using unmanned Predator drone aircraft. They\'ve had great success in Afghanistan, dating back to early 2008. Gates told the Air Force Academy Friday that \"it\'s been like pulling teeth\" to get more of the planes \"because people were stuck in old ways of doing business.\" Gates also clashed with Air Force leadership over production of the top-of-the-line, F-22 Raptor. He said pressure to build more than twice the number budgeted by the Defense Department is a problem.
March 16, 2011 -
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Jason Wilder President, AFGE U.S. Marshals Service Local 2272 Michael Castelle National Fair Practices Coordinator, AFGE Council of Prison Locals Kathleen Stoll Families USA Deputy Executive Director Kim Bailey Families USA Senior Health Policy Analyst
March 16, 2011 -
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A noted technology author says your spouse hates telework.
March 14, 2011 -
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Hosts Bill Bransford and Tony Vergnetti talks with Dexter Brooks and Jo Linda Johnson from the EEOC\'s Office of Federal Operations on their \"Annual Update on EEO Matters in the Federal Sector.\" March 11, 2011
March 11, 2011 -
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Jim Dean Chair, Democracy for America Philip Dray Author, \"There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America\" Kimberly Kraynak-Lambert President, AFGE Local 332 Robert McNeil President, AFGE Local 237 Andrew Krzmarzick Director of Community Engagement, GovLoop
March 09, 2011 -
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March 14th and March 16th Special Edition: What is analytics and how can it enhance decision making? How can the Deep QA analytics technology underpinning IBM\'s Watson help government agencies meet mission? We will explore these questions and more with two very special guests Professor Tom Davenport on analytics and David Shepler on Deep QA/Watson. That\'s this week on The Business of Government Hour.
March 09, 2011 -
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March 7th and March 9th, 2011 U.S Department Housing and Urban Development Chief Financial Officer
March 09, 2011 -
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The federal government could soon pay a $2,000 subsidy to federal employees who buy their own mobile devices.
March 07, 2011 -
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March 2nd, 2011 Listen to a discussion on how the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is intended to help restore responsibility and accountability.
March 03, 2011 -
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A new report from the Office of Personnel Management says federal agency employees were already increasing their use of telework, even before a new law designed to encourage the practice kicked in. OPM\'s Status of Telework Report says there were 11,000 more teleworkers in the federal government in 2008 than in 2009. That translates to around 10 percent of all agency workers who are eligible for telework, and 5 percent of the overall federal workforce under an established telework policy. But based on surveys, OPM says 22 percent of all federal workers teleworked to some extent - the agency says some of them did so through informal agreements with their supervisors. The Telework Enhancement Act, passed last year, requires every agency to designate a Telework Managing Officer. And by June, every federal employee should be told whether or not they\'re telework eligible.
March 03, 2011 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs says a new automated system for processing benefit claims has cut the time vets have to wait for education benefits in half. VA faced a big challenge when it was charged with implementing the new GI Bill for veterans who served after September 11, 2001. The new bill was much more complex than the original Montgomery G.I. Bill, and VA says it had no way to get its older IT systems to process the claims in an efficient way, so they resorted to doing much of the work on paper. So they partnered with the Navy to build a new system from the ground up. VA says they\'re building the system in increments, trying to gradually bring more of the system online every few months. When they started, they were processing 2,000 claims a day. Now, they\'re managing 10,000.
March 03, 2011 -
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has rolled out another online mapping tool - this one focusing on rural and small-town America. The website looks, and functions a lot like the Food Environment Atlas that USDA launched a year ago. But this version aims to bring together data on several facets of the nation\'s rural communities, so policymakers can make smarter decisions about where to direct federal resources. The department uses county-level data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic analysis as well as its own data. The Census numbers are drawn from the first round of numbers coming from the American Community Survey. Users can click on a county and see information on demographics, jobs, agricultural data and other economic indicators. In addition to seeing that data, users can download it in spreadsheet form and use it in on other applications.
March 03, 2011 -
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According to the Pentagon, two soldiers assigned to the Aberdeen Proving Ground have been killed in Afghanistan. Twenty-five-year-old Staff Sgt. Chauncy Mays of Cookville, Texas, and 22-year-old Spc. Christopher Stark of Monett, Mo., died Monday in Wardak province when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 63rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 20th Support Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground.
March 03, 2011 -
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Isaiah Poole Executive Editor, OurFuture.org Leaders from AFGE VA Local 1843: Ramona Sears President Betty Conlan Vice President Linda James Treasurer Kelvin Flannery Chief Steward
March 02, 2011
