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The e-health records technology pioneered by the Veterans Affairs Department will soon be available to the rest of federal employees in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.
January 26, 2012 -
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Prosecutors called it one of the biggest government contracting fraud cases ever. Court papers show Michael A. Alexander plans to plead guilty to bribery and conspiracy to launder money. Alexander and three other men, including another Army Corps of Engineers employee, were indicted in October on charges of participating in a bribery and kickback scheme in the awarding of $20 million in government contracts. The other men have pleaded not guilty.
January 26, 2012 -
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A National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency budget analyst claims his security clearance was taken away because his Islamic wife was employed by an Islamic faith-based organization. So he sued NGA for ethnic discrimination.
January 26, 2012 -
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The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive host Tom Temin 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.
January 26, 2012 -
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The investigative agency that originally detailed huge management problems at Arlington National Cemetery a year and a half ago says there\'s been a dramatic improvement. The challenge now is maintaining the momentum.
January 26, 2012 -
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The Defense Information Systems Agency created a Defense-wide directory of email addresses in support of their enterprise email system. But the real value in the listing of every military and civilian employee, contractor and retiree email address may be in securing information in a new way through the use of access based identity management. NIST is testing how to best use secure identity cards in the cloud.
January 26, 2012 -
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The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the influential defense think tank, has called on the U.S. military to redraw the map of military bases scattered throughout the Middle East. Mark Gunzinger, a senior fellow at CSBA, and his colleague Chris Dougherty joined Pentagon Solutions with Francis Rose to discuss the report.
January 25, 2012 -
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Declining budgets are a factor, but not the only factor in DoD\'s new strategic guidance. In this week\'s edition of On DoD, Pentagon spokesman George Little and Capt. John Kirby tell Federal News Radio the department would be implementing a new strategy with or without today\'s fiscal pressure.
January 25, 2012 -
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President Barack Obama has adopted a new strategy declaring for the first time that the United States has a national security interest to protect the nation\'s economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters in all corners of the globe.
January 25, 2012 -
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A special House panel finds DoD\'s audit plan is credible, but successful implementation will depend on commitment of Defense components and future leaders.
January 25, 2012 -
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President Barack Obama hit on some issues important to federal employees during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, including his push for a reorganization of some federal agencies. But, he also called for the creation of two new \"units\" to help fight counterfeit goods and financial fraud.
January 25, 2012 -
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Muamar Ghadafi has been dead for more than 3 months, but forces loyal to him continue to fight and they\'ve taken control, of Bani Walid, a town south-east of the capital. They\'ve been flying their green flags in defiance of the country\'s new, weak government. This is just the latest problem facing the government which has yet to rise to its feet since the NATO led operation ousted Gadhafi and his government. There are also concerns that terrorist factions are spiriting weapons out of the country
January 24, 2012 -
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Plan outlines how joint forces will maintain their access to land, air, sea and cyber space.
January 24, 2012 -
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President Barack Obama announced a slate of nominees for administration posts, including three in key Defense Department positions. They include nominees for the Pentagon\'s personnel and policy chiefs and the department\'s chief weapons buyer.
January 23, 2012
