Management

• For 2013, CFC focusing on the people behind the money

  Federal employees can start donating to the more than 4,000 charities under the Combined Federal Campaign. One of the goals of the CFC is to increase the number of people giving to charities, not just reaching a dollar threshold.

  Congress

  September 05, 2013
• Making Authoritative Acquisition Information Available for DoD

  What is the DoD's Acquisition Visibility initiative? How does it provide key data and information to decision-makers? What's next for DoD's Acquisition Visibility? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Mark Krzysko, Deputy Director DoD's Acquisition Enterprise Information. Mark E. Krzysko Deputy Director of Enterprise Information within DoD's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Department of Defense

  Management

  September 05, 2013
• DoD research, acquisition face double whammy from sequestration

  Like everything else, the Pentagon expects to cut procurement and research spending under a second year of sequestration. But DoD's acquisition chief said modernization programs will be a bill-payer for other areas of spending that are harder to reduce quickly.

  Budget

  September 05, 2013
• OFPP to hold acquisition workers more accountable for training

  Joe Jordan, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, issued a memo requiring civilian agencies to use the Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System to track how acquisition workers are meeting certification requirements. Agencies have several deadlines over the next year to input data into the system.

  Management

  September 05, 2013
• Self plus one, chained CPI, & COLAs

  NARFE's David Snell will discuss the impact of a proposed change to how federal retirees' cost-of-living adjustments are calculated. September 4, 2013

  Mike Causey

  September 04, 2013
• Connolly: Budget uncertainty has ‘insidious impact’ on feds, contractors

  A bevy of issues has piled up on lawmakers' to-do list, including fiscal 2014 funding and a pay raise for federal employees. But they don't have much time to act. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), whose district includes many federal employees and contractors, tells Federal News Radio the climate of uncertainty is having a negative impact on both groups.

  All News

  September 04, 2013
• Navy tackles suicides, sex assaults head on

  On this week's edition of Agency of the Month, Navy Rear Admiral Sean Buck, director of the 21st Century Sailor Office, joins host Sean McCalley to discuss the prevention of sexual assaults and suicides within the Defense Department.

  Defense

  September 04, 2013
• FEEA suspends furlough loans to feds

  The Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund announced Wednesday it will have to suspend new furlough loans to civilian federal employees, due to a lack of available funds.

  Budget

  September 04, 2013
• The healthcare claims process

  Tom Romeo, president of MAXIMUS Federal explains how the appeals process works when a healthcare claim is rejected. September 3, 2013

  Federal Tech Talk

  September 04, 2013
• Proposal preparation and more

  Lois Gannon from AOC Key Solutions and Jason Workmaster from McKenna Long and Aldridge LLP discuss what it takes to prepare a good procurement proposal. September 3, 2013

  Off the Shelf

  September 03, 2013
• The state of the small business contracting market

  Womenable CEO Julie Weeks joins host Mark Amtower to talk about her research on small business contractors and what they can do to earn more government business. September 2, 2013

  Amtower Off-Center

  September 02, 2013
• The defense budget and military satellite communications

  Todd Harrison, senior fellow for Defense Budget Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budetary Assessments, will discuss how the defense industry is being impacted by sequestration. He will also give us an update on the U.S. military satellite communications system. August 30 & September 6, 2013

  Fed Access

  August 30, 2013
• Obama ends federal pay freeze; Congress could still block

  President Barack Obama issued some good news for federal workers before the start of Labor Day weekend, calling for a 1 percent pay increase for feds in 2014. But Congress could still prevent the raises through legislation. Federal employees have had their pay frozen since January 2011.

  Budget

  August 30, 2013
• Next front in fight against improper payments? Stopping payments to dead people

  Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee have opened a new legislative salvo in the fight against improper payments: helping agencies stop payments to dead people. The new legislation, introduced by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the committee would allow all federal agencies to access basic death data maintained by the Social Security Administration and require they use it to curb improper payments

  Congress

  August 30, 2013