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Commentary: Career federal (and other public) employees have a property interest in their jobs. It\'s a major distinction with the private sector. It\'s a long established fact. But when\'s the last time you heard it stated, asks Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
May 18, 2015 -
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Inspectors General exist to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse. They save and recover money for the government. But how do your measure the effectiveness of the IGs themselves? Researchers at the Brookings Institution think they\'ve found a way to figure out the return on investment agencies get from their inspectors general. John Hudak is a fellow at Brookings, and co-authored the research report. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the findings and the methodology behind them.
May 15, 2015 -
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Federal agencies are getting better at processing Freedom of Information Act requests. The record-setting backlog is just an anomaly out of their control, the Justice Department says.
May 07, 2015 -
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Dr. David Shulkin led a turnaround of New York\'s Beth Israel Hospital as part of a long career in private sector hospital administration. He said running the Department of Veterans Affairs\' health system would be a far greater challenge, but assured senators that his skills are transferrable to the public sector.
May 06, 2015 -
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Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta will appoint a board to make recommendations about and advise on issues affecting federal retirement plans.
May 04, 2015 -
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Kymm McCabe says inspectors general and Congress are so focused on oversight that it\'s creating fear and hurting communication across the federal market.
May 04, 2015 -
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Is the EPA turning a blind eye to sexual harassment and pornography in the in the office? Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee gave the impression that they thought so at a hearing Thursday.…
May 01, 2015 -
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Most of the public doesn\'t think open government data lives up to that moniker. That\'s according to the Pew Research Center. In a nationwide survey, Pew measured people\'s opinions of government data sharing efforts, and whether those efforts improved public perceptions of government accountability. John Horrigan, a senior researcher at Pew, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to share more of what Pew found.
April 29, 2015 -
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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is beefing up its nuclear support mission to meet the expectations of DoD\'s 2014 Nuclear Enterprise Review. A new nuke-focused directorate will tackle oversight, investment, personnel and training, as recommended in the review. Director Kenneth Myers announced the directorate last week at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. It\'ll be fully operational in just a few days. On the Federal Drive, Myers told Federal News Radio\'s Lauren Larson why a nuclear directorate is needed.
April 28, 2015 -
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The politics that surround illegal immigration are thorny, but so are the logistics. The Homeland Security Department\'s inspector general has chastised the department for sending detainees home on nearly empty flights and failing to record critical information about those detainees, like whether or not they belong to gangs. IG John Roth says the department could have saved more than $40 million through better planning. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to offer a solution.
April 28, 2015 -
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The DoD IG believes that investigations into alleged misconduct by DoD officials can be cut roughly in half by 2017 if the department follows the recommendations it delivered in a report released publicly last week.
April 27, 2015 -
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A review by federal cyber experts from DHS, ODNI and OPM raise the prospect that the initial estimate of 27,000 federal employees thought to have been impacted by the August 2014 cyber breach of security clearance contractor USIS is low. In light of that breach and others, OMB led a governmentwide review of contracts to ensure contractors are in compliance with laws and policies to protect government data on non-federal systems.
April 23, 2015 -
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Two key Senate lawmakers are questioning the Treasury Department\'s inconsistencies in reporting the health of its major technology projects.
April 22, 2015 -
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GAO warns the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that the bureau needs to simplify its IT plans for the 2020 count. Census to finalize operational plan by September detailing technology and processes for the decennial population calculation.
April 22, 2015
