National & World Headlines

• Doctors say fitness trackers, health apps can boost care

  By ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — That phone app keeping track of your exercise and meals might keep you out of the hospital one day. Why give your doctors permission to…

  Technology

  February 24, 2015
• GOP struggles for way out as Homeland shutdown looms

  By ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Divided Republicans are searching for a way out of an impasse over immigration that is threatening to shut down the Homeland Security Department within days. With the…

  Congress

  February 24, 2015
• YouTube to release kids app to ease parents’ worries

  By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — YouTube is going to release a mobile app that will only show video clips suitable for young children to help parents control what their kids…

  Technology

  February 24, 2015
• GOP leader offers immigration vote to try to resolve impasse

  By ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days from a Homeland Security Department shutdown, Senate Republicans sought a way out Monday by splitting President Barack Obama’s contested immigration measures from the agency’s funding bill.…

  Budget

  February 24, 2015
• All things procurement

  Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the top procurement issues in 2015, and how they are impacting contractors. February 23, 2015

  Amtower Off-Center

  February 23, 2015
• Dan Goure, Vice President, Lexington Institute

  One of the top priorities for Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is to transform the Defense Department into a better, and cheaper, version of itself. One proposal is to hand more responsibilities over to the private sector. Dan Goure is vice president of the Lexington Institute and former director of the Office of Strategic Competitiveness in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said the private sector model is making a huge difference for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense.

  All News

  February 23, 2015
• Dutch SIM card maker investigating reported UK-US hack

  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch company that makes SIM cards for cellular phones says it is investigating reports that it was hacked by Britain’s electronic spying agency in cooperation with the U.S. National…

  Technology

  February 23, 2015
• Air Force cancels suspension of FedBid

  FedBid and the Air Force came to an agreement to end the reverse auction company's stay from bidding on new contracts. FedBid must implement and maintain a code of business and ethics conduct program and have a third party report on its efforts for a year. Additionally, Ali Saadat, the founder and former CEO of FedBid, resigned on Feb. 5.

  Defense

  February 23, 2015
• Jerry Hendrix, Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, CNAS

  President Barack Obama's budget request included a small, $5 million item earmarked for a next-generation fighter. And while no one knows exactly what it'll be, it's meant to replace the F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18 Growler by 2030. Jerry Hendrix, a senior fellow and director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on what exactly the new fighter will be capable of — and why it's needed.

  Federal Drive

  February 23, 2015
• Snowden leak: NSA helped British steal cell phone codes

  By KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Britain’s electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both…

  Technology

  February 23, 2015
• Follow-up: DoD’s LPTA ‘look’ is not a LPTA review

  An update to an earlier DoD Reporter's Notebook item on the Pentagon embarking on a new review of the department's use of lowest-price technically acceptable (LPTA) contract awards.

  Defense

  February 23, 2015
• DoD likely to send Congress a ‘what if’ report, detailing impacts of sequestration

  After having gotten a partial, two-year reprieve from sequestration, the original caps Congress set for the Defense Department in the Budget Control Act (BCA) are scheduled to go back into effect in October.

  Budget

  February 23, 2015
• Physicist whose work helped world see 1st moon walk dies

  ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Physicist Ernest Sternglass, whose research helped make it possible for the world to see the first moon walk, has died at age 91 of heart failure. His research helped lead to…

  Technology

  February 21, 2015
• The federal hiring market in 2015

  Talent acquisition manager Mike Bruni will discuss job trends in the federal government, the kinds of workers that agencies need, and how to land a job in what is a competitive and challenging federal market. February 20, 2015

  Fed Access

  February 20, 2015