National & World Headlines
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For the first time in the memory of any currently-serving member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified at a single hearing Thursday. Their message: Don\'t add a seventh.
November 11, 2011 -
The agency puts employees in pools based on their expertise, and then the employees move from project to project based on the needs of that program. VA now is working on 60 percent more projects than under the previous approach. November 10, 2011(Encore presentation December 22, 2011)
November 10, 2011 -
Maj. Brian Hampton is president of the Center for American Homeless Veterans.
November 10, 2011 -
The Air Force\'s B-2 stealth bomber fleet is getting ready to go under the knife.
November 10, 2011 -
Tim McManus is the vice president for Education and Outreach at Partnership for Public Service.
November 10, 2011 -
The Court of Federal Claims rules in VA\'s favor on five of six counts. But VA must relook at Standard Communications\' bid to see if it meets the solicitation\'s best value criteria.
November 10, 2011 -
Jane Oates, the assistant secretary for the Employment and Training Administration at the Labor Department, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how a new veteran-specific job website works.
November 10, 2011 -
The Defense Department has announced new opportunities for service members and wounded veterans who are now returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
November 10, 2011 -
The new leader of the Air Force\'s major information technology acquisition command said the service still is operating in a mode that lets individual programs design and build their own IT infrastructure.
November 10, 2011 -
Scott Denniston, executive director of programs at the National Veteran-Owned Business Association, discusses the barriers to veterans getting small business contracts.
November 09, 2011 -
Retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, the former adjutant general for the Tennessee National Guard, who now serves as the president of the National Guard Association of the United States joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss why the National Guard should be included in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Senate is set to take up the issue this week.
November 09, 2011 -
Alexander Bolton of The Hill discusses the status of potential cuts to federal spending that supercommitte is considering.
November 09, 2011 -
The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Amy Morris discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.
November 09, 2011 -
The use senior mentors — retired military officers or former high-level civilian officials hired as contractors — has dropped precipitously in the year and a half since the Defense Department instituted stiffer conflict-of-interest rules and a pay cap, according to an inspector general\'s report issued last week.
November 09, 2011 -
Two senior senators will introduce an amendment to the DoD authorization bill to increase the oversight over the IT supply chain. A preliminary report from GAO finds counterfeit technology parts easily making their way into weapons systems.
November 09, 2011