National & World Headlines

• DoD IG: Navy failed to review costs from drone contract

  The Navy is under fire for not properly reviewing invoices from a contract with Northrop Grumman

  Federal Drive

  January 03, 2011
• Treasury: End to paper checks

  Dick Gregg, Fiscal Assistant Secretary at Treasury, joins the Federal Drive with details on the Treasury\'s move to paper-less benefits

  Federal Drive

  January 03, 2011
• New drones to be deployed in Afghanistan

  The Gorgon Stare drone has nine cameras and can monitor a whole city

  Federal Drive

  January 03, 2011
• DoD, GSA tighten standards on contractor IDs

  New regulations published Thursday aim to make sure agencies reclaim vendor employees\' HSPD-12 cards when they\'re no longer needed to perform contract work.

  Defense

  December 30, 2010
• Air Force advisor gives tips for working with private sector

  This week on Federal Security Spotlight host Tom Temin talks to Riley Repko, the senior advisor for cybersecurity to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Requirements at the Air Force. December 30, 2010

  Defense

  December 30, 2010
• Carter to resign Harvard tenure, stay at DoD

  Ashton Carter will continue as Pentagon procurement chief.

  Defense

  December 29, 2010
• Analysis: More training for DoD acquisition officers?

  Dr. Jacque Gansler gives his assessment of the DoD recommendations on acquisition reform.

  Federal Drive

  December 29, 2010
• Corruption investigations in Iraq, Afghanistan on the rise

  Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, discusses why alleged fraud cases seems to be increasing in the war zones.

  Federal Drive

  December 29, 2010
• GAO: Weaknesses in federal financial management

  GAO\'s Bob Dacey explains why the agency could not issue an opinion on the federal government\'s consolidated financial statements for the 14th year in a row.

  Federal Drive

  December 29, 2010
• Afghan government faces a tough fight

  Pieces of the suicide bomber\'s car were strewn across the street. Three police cars and a handful of civilian cars and shops in the area were destroyed by the blast in Kabul Monday. In a statement, President Hamid Karzi condemned the midday attack. But the incident and others like it highlight the wobbly state of security in Afghanistan as that weak nation tries to build a security force and stomp out insurgents hiding in Afghanistan\'s rugged terrain and porous borders.

  Defense

  December 28, 2010
• The last police woman goes down

  The last policeman standing or in this case policewoman has gone down in a strip of border towns in the Juarez Valley of Mexico. Gunmen stormed into the home of Erika Gándara in the town of Guadalupe about 6 o\'clock am. two days before Christmas and kidnapped her. The 28 year ood Gándara, was the only police officer in the municipality of Guadalupe which is about two miles from the Texas border. All the rest of the police, the men, had fled the town, giving in to the powerful drug cartels and their henchmen. No word on her condition.

  Defense

  December 28, 2010
• Programs Determine the Nature of Cyber-threats

  Self-proclaimed \"technogeeks\" at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, after determining the nature of the cybersecurity threat, have created programs to tackle them and, most importantly they say, surprise would-be cyber crooks. Officials at DARPA say the agency\'s sole mission since its inception in 1958 has been to prevent technological surprises. Two of the agency\'s recent cybersecurity programs, called CRASH and PROCEED, were created for that purpose. CRASH - the Clean-slate Design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts program - seeks to build new computer systems that resist cyberattacks. After successful attacks they learn from the attack, adapt and repair themselves. The program evolved from a workshop DARPA held earlier this year that pulled together experts in cybersecurity and operating-system as well as infectious-disease biologists.

  Defense

  December 27, 2010
• Bombs explode at Embassies

  Who\'s behind blasts at embassies across Europe. Package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean Embassies and were found at others. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but authorities appeared to discount domestic anarchists or protesters. Rome\'s Mayor Gianni Alemanno \"It\'s a wave of terrorism against embassies, something much more worrisome than a single attack,\" Last month, suspected Greek radical anarchists sent fourteen mail bombs to foreign embassies in Athens.

  Defense

  December 27, 2010
• Obama to end Federal Career Intern Program

  The Post reports that a draft executive order will kill the 10-year-old FCIP in March.

  Defense

  December 27, 2010