Radio Interviews
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We learned earlier this week about Defense Secretary Roberts Gates’ proposed budget for 2010. Gates is calling for 39,000 full-time civil servants to be hired in the next five years, but how will that affect…
April 09, 2009 -
The Justice Department lawyers who prosecuted former Senator Ted Stevens are now in the hot seat after a federal judge appointed a special prosecutor to investigate their actions during the Stevens case. Bill Bransford, partner…
April 09, 2009 -
Written by Ruben Gomez Edited by Suzanne Kubota This morning’s federal news as heard on WFED: Attorney General Eric Holder warning federal prosecutors of increased scrutiny. This in the wake of a botched corruption case…
April 09, 2009 -
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How secure are the 98,000 desktop and laptop computers at the Internal Revenue Service? Peggy Begg is the Assistant Inspector General for Security and Information Technology Audits with the Treasury Department. She joins us to…
April 08, 2009 -
Written by Ruben Gomez Edited by Suzanne Kubota This morning’s federal news as heard on WFED: Just midway into the fiscal year and the federal deficit already stands at nearly $1-trillion dollars. The Congressional Budget…
April 08, 2009 -
Monday we brought you Defense Secretary Gates’s news conference outlining big changes to the FY2010 budget at DoD. Many of those changes were suggested to the House Armed Services Committee just last Friday by William…
April 07, 2009 -
The House’s oversight of reform for the acquisition system at the Pentagon is done by the Defense Acquisition Reform Panel, under the auspices of the House Armed Services Committee. Last week the panel heard from…
April 07, 2009 -
Is your agency tossing top talent by the wayside? A new report from the Partnership for Public Service finds that federal managers are putting less than 1 in 10 interns on their permanent payrolls. The…
April 07, 2009 -
Written by Ruben Gomez Edited by Suzanne Kubota This morning’s federal news as heard on WFED: Major weapons systems on the chopping block: Defense Secretary Robert Gates unvieled his 2010 Pentagon budget yesterday. The $534-billion…
April 07, 2009 -
The netbook has the potential to change the way your agency does business. The second meeting of the In Depth Technology board took a close look at the Hewlett-Packard 2140 mini-notebook, HP’s newest entry into…
April 06, 2009 -
Sweeping changes in the Pentagon contracting landscape are coming. Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid them out in a briefing at the Pentagon, which we carried live on In Depth.
April 06, 2009 -
Far fewer fraud cases are being filed in the Defense Department contracting shop than ever before, even though Pentagon contracting is more common than ever before. Nick Schwellenbach has authored a report for the Center…
April 06, 2009 -
Written by Ruben Gomez Edited by Suzanne Kubota This morning’s federal news as heard on WFED: Pay parity made it into both versions of budget resolutions passed in Congress. Government Executive reports the language does…
April 06, 2009 -
Two more high-level appointments in the Veterans Affairs Department are being considered by the Senate. The Veterans Affairs Committee invited W. Scott Gould, President Obama’s choice to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Tammy…
April 03, 2009