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Matthew Brooks President, AFGE Local 527 (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Rick Perlstein Author, \"Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America\" Gloria Totten President, Progressive Majority Dean Baker Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Kay Ely Associate Director Human Resources Products & Services Division Office of Personnel Management (OPM) June 22nd and June 24th
A state-run newspaper said Monday that a Chinese submarine\'s reported collision last week with an underwater sonar apparatus towed by a U.S. destroyer in the South China Sea was likely an accident. The official China Daily cited Chinese military experts as saying that the submarine\'s collision with the sonar array connected to the USS John S. McCain probably occurred due to a misjudgment of distance. No injuries were reported and the extent of damage to the sonar array was not immediately known.
June 10th, 2009 The General Services Administration has moved USA.gov and Gobierno.gov to the cloud. GSA Acting Administrator of the Office of Citizen Services and Communications Martha Dorris talks about why - and how - they moved these flagship Federal sites.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the possibility of a U.S.-Russian partnership on missile defense have improved because Moscow is becoming more concerned about Iran. The defense secretary told senators Tuesday that U.S. offers to put radar or data exchange centers in Russia are among the options being discussed. Russian and U.S. officials are working intensively on a successor deal to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START I, which expires in December. Negotiators are aiming for some results by the time Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hosts President Barack Obama July 6-8 in Moscow.
June 3rd, 2009 The National Science Foundation is using technology to pull together information about the world of science, and provide a platform for creating and distributing its own creations. Jeff Nesbit, Director of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation, discusses the aggregated information - and original content - found at Science360.gov.
Rudy deLeon Head of new NSPS review task force Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) Heather Smith Executive Director, Rock the Vote Scott Paul Executive Director, Alliance for American Manufacturing
The Pentagon is challenging a report that alleges new military prison photos show Iraqi prisoner abuse including sexual abuse. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Britain\'s images were \"completely miss characterized by Britain\'s Daily Telegraph.\" The newspaper reported one of the photos apparently shows an American soldier raping a female prisoner. Other photos reportedly showed acts of abuse using objects including a club and wire.
May 27th, 2009 Virtualization is on the \"watch list\" for IT professionals all over the Federal government. Lee Badger, a computer scientist at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, is researching the ways virtualization can impact security, IT costs, and other aspects of running an IT operation. He told me about the work NIST is doing and how virtualization can help agencies meet their missions more effectively.
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he is combining White House staffs dealing with international and homeland security, predicting the change will make Americans safer. The Associated Press is reporting, Obama also is creating a new office intended to communicate more effectively with other countries about U.S. security policy. The Homeland Security Council, created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, will be kept as a venue for discussing issues concerning domestic security, including terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, natural disasters and pandemic influenza. Its staff will be integrated into the National Security Council.
We\'re learning more about the plot to blow up a synagogue in New York and shoot down military planes in the same area. The men allegedly began their plot in 2008 and were discovered by authorities when they recruited an undercover informant operating out of a mosque into their group. The informant allowed law enforcement agencies to monitor the group\'s activities, and gave the men inert plastic explosives and an inoperable FIM-92 \"Stinger\" missile two weeks ago.
John Ely Executive Director for Procurement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security (DHS) May 18th and 20th
Don Hale AFGE DEFCON Chair Jacque Simon AFGE Public Policy Director Scott Eblin President, The Eblin Group Heidi Shierholz Economist, Economic Policy Institute