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For the first time the Combined Federal Campaign will try to generate excitement and participation among that newest class of feds -- teleworkers. Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explores.
July 09, 2015 -
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Women of Washington hosts Gigi Schumm and Aileen Black talk to Barbara Sisson, assistant chief of the Army Reserve.
July 08, 2015 -
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Brad Carson has been nominated as the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, the White House announced Tuesday. Carson is already the department’s point man in identifying a broad series of personnel reforms.
July 08, 2015 -
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The Defense Department’s new personnel chief has two months to go before he delivers a set of recommendations to overhaul DoD’s HR system. But he’s made clear that among his top priorities is to ensure longer tenures for military officers and that moving people from job to job every one or two years is a bad management strategy. Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu has the details.
July 07, 2015 -
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Dr. Steven Rosenberg believed in the viability of immunotherapy as an effective treatment for cancer when few others would.
July 03, 2015 -
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In the 1970s most people in the medical community didn't believe it was possible to use a patient's own body to attack cancer cells and slow tumor growth. Dr. Steven Rosenberg did and advanced the field of immunotherapy. Dr. Rosenberg is chief of the surgery branch of the National Cancer Institute and a finalist for a Service to America Medal in the career achievement category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how immunotherapy works and how its changing how doctors treat cancer.
July 03, 2015 -
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Jeff Neely, the former General Services Administration official at the center of the Western Regions Conference scandal, will spend three months in prison and three months under home confinement. Neely had been placed on administrative leave in 2011 and later left the agency following revelations of a lavish $822,000 training conference held in Las Vegas.
July 01, 2015 -
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With the ToxCast Lab, EPA scientists had new tools at their disposal that allowed them to more efficiently and cost-effectively screen chemicals for potential toxic effects. It also helped to reduce the need for laboratory animal testing of chemicals.
June 30, 2015 -
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As the deputy associate administrator in the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, Conrad oversaw the development of key initiatives including the cloud security standard and Data.gov.
June 30, 2015 -
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The FEMA Operation Precious Cargo Team was dispatched last summer to the South Texas border to coordinate the government's response to a massive humanitarian crisis.
June 30, 2015 -
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DHS' Science and Technology Directorate worked with scientists at NASA-JPL to create FINDER, a portable piece of technology to help first responders.
June 30, 2015 -
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As team leader for USAID's Syrian food assistance program, Rob Thayer has been instrumental to helping to bring life-saving help to the region, with the U.S. providing $1.1 billion in food assistance so far.
June 30, 2015 Ten years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency only knew whether a small fraction of the 80,000 chemicals in use were hazardous to people or the environment. That changed in 2005 after Robert Kavlock, deputy assistant administrator for science in the EPA's Office of Research and Development, established the ToxCast Lab. It can quickly screen large numbers of chemicals for health effects. For that, he was named one of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to further discuss his work, and the problems it solved.
June 30, 2015-
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Breaking news on Monday: NASA is getting a new deputy chief information officer. Sources say Renee Wynn is moving to the space agency after spending the last four years as the Environmental Protection Agency’s deputy…
June 30, 2015
