National & World Headlines
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Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how sequestration will affect defense managers and contractors. He said the threat of automatic, across-the-board cuts from sequestration will hang over DoD for the next year.
November 23, 2011 -
Retired general spent 34 years in the Army. He will be in charge of a review to evaluate the changes made to the mortuary procedures.
November 23, 2011 -
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wanted to know how quickly people could put shredded documents together again. The answer: pretty quickly.
November 23, 2011 -
Defense Department Inspector General Gordon Heddell is stepping down Dec. 24.
November 23, 2011 -
Host John Gilroy is joined by AirPatrol Corporation CTO Tom Kellermann. They will discuss how to control data leakage from mobile devices. November 22, 2011
November 22, 2011 -
Under Secretary of the Navy Bob Work credits civilian senior executives with providing continuity in achieving his department\'s mission of supporting warfighters.
November 22, 2011 -
President Obama signs bipartisan bill that will help The President says it will help about 850,000 veterans who are currently unemployed and tens of thousands who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in the coming months.
November 22, 2011 -
Schriever Air Force Base spokeswoman Jennifer Thibault says the building was evacuated after the standoff began Monday. She says no shots were fired and no one was injured.
November 21, 2011 -
President Barack Obama will sign into law Monday legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed veterans.
November 21, 2011 -
By Michael O’Connell Web Editor Federal News Radio The American Small Business Coalition is hosting its annual holiday bash on Nov. 30. But this isn’t just any holiday party. This is a chance for the…
November 21, 2011 -
After a decade in which it has been built up to parity with the active Army and Air Force components, the National Guard should not be allowed to backslide to a point where it is no longer usable, the National Guard chief said Friday.
November 21, 2011 -
Agencies have four months to develop diversity and inclusion plans under a broad, brief governmentwide strategy released Thursday. Proponents say, by making the President\'s Management Council responsible for progress, the strategy will succeed where past measures have failed.
November 21, 2011 -
Jack Gansler is director of the Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland\'s School of Public Policy and former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
November 18, 2011 -
The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2011 was the logical next step after the repeal of the Don\'t Ask Don\'t Tell policy, which banned gays from openly serving in the military, said committee chairman and bill co-sponsor Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in a statement.
November 18, 2011 -
Flying low, far and fast, the Army\'s new missile, the Advanced Hypersonic weapon, successfully completed a test run between two points in the Pacific.
November 18, 2011