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Competitive hiring for government jobs leaves recent college graduates behind. The Partnership for Public Service\'s John Palguta says it doesn\'t have to be that way. He explains.
June 29, 2010 -
CIA Director Leon Panetta says the agency has hired Xe Services - the company once known as Blackwater - for a $100 million contract to provide security in Afghanistan. As you can imagine, some are outraged. Steve Ryan explains the issues.
June 29, 2010 -
The first graduates of a new leadership training program run by the Office of Personnel Management received their certificates yesterday. They are, as OPM Director John Berry describes them, the \"tip of the spear\" of a cadre of up-and-coming federal workers who are honing their leadership skills to be the next generation of agency leaders and executives who will run the government.
June 29, 2010 -
The administration issues two new memos focusing on all IT projects and specifically on financial management systems. OMB will issue guidance in the next month detailing how they will evaluate which programs are at most risk. OMB\'s Zients says programs worth more than $10 billion are significantly off track in cost, schedule or both.
June 29, 2010 -
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We get analysis from Homeland Security Today editor David Silverberg.
June 28, 2010 -
We get analysis from the Center for Democracy and Technology.
June 28, 2010 -
This week, Amtower interviews Todd Lamonia, president and CEO of Intellifed. June 28, 2010
June 28, 2010 -
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The Postal Service inspector general says the agency overpaid $75 billion into the Civil Service Retirement System from 1972 to 2009. Michael Thompson, Director of Capital Investments for the Postal Service Office of Inspector General, explains.
June 28, 2010 -
Under enormous pressure, with little time to spare and no playbook to follow, the Treasury Department\'s newly created Office of Financial Stability (OFS) had to recruit highly qualified staff to administer TARP, build an operation from scratch, negotiate complex agreements to provide hundreds of billions of dollars, and ensure that their decisions were done according to the strict letter of the law and with strong fiscal controls. Timothy Massad, chief counsel, explains how they pulled that off.
June 28, 2010 -
IG: pilot information is at risk, Billions to be spent on smartgrid cybersecurity
June 28, 2010 -
What stories made news for the week of June 20-26? Here are the most read stories across Federal News Radio 1500 AM … on the DorobekInsider.com … for Mike Causey’s Federal Report… on the Federal…
June 27, 2010 -
The Office of Management and Budget has just issued a new policy for dealing with Internet “cookies” — these are text files that a Web site can put on your computer to track how you…
June 26, 2010