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Captain Brad Cooper, the executive director of the Joining Forces Initiative, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the new veteran-hiring efforts.
President Barack Obama on Friday proposed tax credits and training programs to help thousands of U.S. service members returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan find jobs in the shaky economy at home.
On Today\'s Federal Drive: The effect of the S&P downgrade on federal agencies, GSA rethinks new pay-for-parking rule and the Army cuts civilian personnel.
Half the cuts will come from the Army\'s Installation Management Command -- that\'s almost 12 per cent of the total workforce at the command.
IBM has protested the Veterans Affairs Department\'s multi-billion dollar information technology contract, under the Transformation 21 Total Technology (T4) program.
Leon Panetta, in his first news conference as defense secretary, said a potential second round of Pentagon budget cutting, set up as a failsafe, by this week\'s debt-ceiling deal would be a doomsday scenario for the military. The additional $500 billion cut would be \"completely unacceptable,\" he added.
There is fact, and there is fiction, in defense spending under the debt deal says Winslow Wheeler, Director at the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.
Marty Bollinger, senior vice president and director of aerospace and defense practice at Booz & Co. discusses the prospects for the Defense Department budget, the impact of the debt ceiling on industry and the implications U.S. debt will have on policy.
Rear Admiral Walter Carter of the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command joined the Federal Drive to discuss the disestablishing of the Joint Forces Command. He said, even in the wake of its closure, \'jointness\' in the military services would continue.
The Department of the Navy has issued two requests for information from industry, one on a public-private data center partnership model; another on commercial collaboration software as a service. The department must cut its IT business system spending by 25 percent.
Host Roger Waldron will talk government contracting with Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the Integrated Technology Service at GSA\'s Federal Acquistion Service. August 2, 2011(Encore presentation August 16, 2011)
This \"environmentally responsive\" material would constantly adjust to outside conditions as well as body heat.
Ashton Carter would take over for Bill Lynn, who announced in July he is retiring.
Daniel Goure of the Lexington Institute discussed what exactly constitutes cyber warfare, the policy options DoD faces in the cyber domain and the role that industry can play.