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Agencies are measuring their progress towards hiring reforms and implementing technology to track applications and identify bottlenecks. Those are some of the best practices shared in a memo from the Office of Personnel Management. Overall, it said, agencies are progressing toward the governmentwide goal of filling vacancies in 80 days or less.
Under the draft bill, introduced by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity Subcommittee, Daniel Lungren (R-Calif.), the organization would share cyber threat information among various government and private-sector groups. The Homeland Security Department would take a lead role in the new organization by organizing the information sharing across the government and its private sector counterparts.
Eight companies are headed to court over their use of Carrier IQ software, Computerworld reports. The lawsuit says the companies have violated federal wiretap laws because Carrier IQ\'s services, which provides analytics, are intrusive and infringe on users\' privacy.
Today\'s show focuses on a company that applies predictive analytics to saving agencies money on overpayments. Bill Lochtern, a director at Information Builders, gives a description of how his company has offered assistance to federal agencies to help reduce overpayments.
For the past year, the Library of Congress has been working with Twitter in a transfer of the company\'s entire electronic data set. Library\'s digital director sees this as a \"unique record of our time.\"
Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, says that the latest holdups with the F-35 joint strike fighter program are nothing new. He suggests that it might be time for the DoD to pull the plug on the ill-fated program and seek other solutions.
The Army is collaborating with the Environmental Protection Agency to makes its bases more sustainable as part of its Net Zero initiative.
Pay freezes haven\'t stopped federal employees from giving money to good causes for the Combined Federal Campaign.
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.
Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the U.S. couldn\'t finalize plans for several big weapons deals with various countries.
Viewing cybersecurity as a growth area, Raytheon buys up its ninth cybersecurity firm since 2007.
Many agencies began freezing senior executives\' pay and limiting performance awards a year before the White House ordered them to do so. That finding comes from a new report by the Office of Personnel Management that some say underscores the pressure to prove a pay-for-performance system can work when there isn\'t a lot of money.
Cookbook authors and Top Chef stars, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio Exec Chef Andy Little and Owner Kathy Sheppherd Hoar from Sheppard Mansion, Hanover, PA Urban Petals floral decorating artist, Sarah von Pollaro All-star mixologist Duane Fernandez, Jr.