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Army Lt. Gen. Michael Linnington is the director of the Pentagon's new POW-MIA Accounting Agency, charged with finding and identifying remains of U.S. service members abroad. Defense Secretary Ash Carter appointed Linnington in June. He replaces Rear Adm. Mike Franken, who had served as interim commander since the agency was formed in January. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Linnington told Federal News Radio's Matt Wingfield more about the history of the still-young agency, and how he plans to accelerate the location and naming of lost service members.
August 24, 2015 -
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NASA could be soon looking for another chief information officer. Sources say Larry Sweet has told his staff he plans on retiring at the end of the calendar year.
August 24, 2015 -
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The nation's public transportation systems will be stronger when the next major storm hits. Adam Schildge is a senior program analyst at the Federal Transit Administration. He's in charge of a $3.6 billion competitive grant program. He developed a new methodology to help decide which public transportation projects might get hit in another storm in the future and which ones should get a resilience grant. He's a finalist for a Service to America medal in the Call to Service category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how he started his federal career.
August 20, 2015 -
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As the Army prepares to graduate the first two female Rangers in its history in a ceremony tomorrow, officials are insisting they did not alter their training standards to accommodate the Army’s first round of female students. But it’s still unclear whether those two new Rangers will ever be allowed to serve in direct ground combat. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
August 20, 2015 -
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The Navy’s top officer says the Pentagon is fighting a congressional proposal that would dramatically reduce take-home pay for tens of thousands of service members by reducing their housing allowances.
August 19, 2015 -
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Managers at the Veterans Affairs Department may be targets of one of the largest federal employee unions. Representatives of the American Federation of Government Employees may have been using their work time to compile suggestions for discipline by top VA leaders. Federal News Radio Reporter Emily Kopp tells In Depth with Francis Rose why this controversy may boil down to a classic labor-versus-management clash.
August 19, 2015 -
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Federal firefighters and National Guard units have been called in to help local firefighters battle the wildfires in the western U.S. Check out our photo gallery of the effort.
August 19, 2015 -
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In late 2009, President Barack Obama ordered agencies to hire more veterans. They have. Veterans used to be confined mostly to the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. But the Office of Personnel Management says one out of every three new employees in fiscal 2014 was a veteran. OPM Director of Veterans Services Hakeem Basheerud-Deen tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp how the whole government has stepped up to the challenge.
August 18, 2015 -
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More than 1,400 Syrian civilians were killed by their own government in 2012 during a nerve agent chemical attack. The United States and Syria negotiated a deal to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. But no country with a proper destruction facility would accept the task. That's where an interagency team led by Tim Blades and Paul Gilmour stepped in. Blades is the director of operations for the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center; Gilmour is the deputy director of ship operations for the U.S. Maritime Administration. For their work, they were named two of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. They joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to recap their dangerous work.
August 18, 2015 -
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There is a little more clarity about the mystery of Barry West, the seemingly now-former chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. West’s LinkedIn page says he left the FDIC in this month and also started at the Mason Harriman Group this month.
August 17, 2015 -
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Two free training programs from the Department of Veterans Affairs won't only help veterans find new careers. They could be a road map to how agencies run pilot programs and prioritize decisions. Rosye Cloud is the acting director of the Office of Transition, Employment and Economics and a senior advisor for veteran development at the Veterans Affairs Department. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose how the programs work and what your agency can learn.
August 14, 2015 -
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Labor Department called on Edward C. Hugler last year when the agency found out its private-sector financial services provider was about to go bankrupt.
August 14, 2015 -
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Steven W. Zander leads the Air Force Community Partnership, which helps bases and local communities reach mutually beneficial agreements on services and facilities.
August 14, 2015 -
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The house has passed a bill that makes it easier and quicker to fire Veterans Affairs employees. Some see Congress’ latest drive to hold government accountable as noble. Others see it as an impending civil rights violation. Susan Tsui Grundmann is chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board. As Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp report, she falls into the latter category.
August 13, 2015
