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This is a big week for the future of Defense spending. We get analysis from Defense contracting expert Jim McAleese.
This is the largest technology services contract ever from the agency.
Nine out of ten employees at one federal office are now teleworking nine out of ten days, adding up to a whole lot of happy.
Tim McManus, vice president for Education and Outreach at the Partnership for Public Service...joins host Derrick Dortch to talk about the work his agency is doing. June 10, 2011(Encore presentation June 17, 2011)
William Yeomans is a Professor at American University. He joins In Depth with analysis on Robert Mueller\'s tenure at the FBI.
Tim McManus is the vice president of education outreach at the Partnership for Public Service.
The federal government in 2010 added more than 31,000 employees from minority groups, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
DoD is making progress in changing how it hires civilian employees. The Pentagon said the new process has been beneficial to the applicants as well as the hiring teams. Pat Tamburrino is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for civilian personnel policy
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said there are more than 1,000 of these back-office systems and moving them to private cloud providers could save billions. Several agencies, including Labor and EEOC, already have moved their financial systems to a private cloud. Kundra envisions an interagency effort similar to the one for email where agencies commit to using a governmentwide contract for these services.
The Navy readies RFIs for email and data storage to figure out how to best reduce spending on non-mission critical systems. Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen is exploring whether DON\'s non-classified email can be hosted by a third party, and whether a public-private partnership can be developed around data centers. Navy has no plans to use the DISA email system.
Reuters reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is considering a move to the World Bank
Agency CIO Darren Ash said media and citizens wanted more information than ever about what NRC is doing in the U.S. and in Japan to deal with the nuclear power safety. Ash said the agency is considering both technology and process improvements to its FOIA processes. June 9, 2011
OMB submits recommendations to change the way agencies that support trade, export and competitiveness work. President Obama is expected to make his decision public, but there is no timetable for when.
Find out what changes The Social Security Administration needs to make to one of its programs. Daniel Bertoni is the director of education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues at GAO.