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Agencies have made little progress over the last two years protecting their data and computer networks. That's according to a new Government Accountability Office report reviewing 24 agencies' implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act. GAO finds most agencies still struggle with access control, configuration management, segregating IT responsibilities away from a single systems administrator. Greg Wilshusen is the director of information security issues at GAO. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
October 05, 2015 -
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The Department of Defense has pursued acquisition reform for decades in an effort to address persistent cost and schedule growth across major programs. Now, six former defense officials at the University of Maryland have a long list of recommendations for how the department can finally achieve it. Jacques Gansler, former under secretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, chaired this recent work. He sat down with the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a four-part interview on the report. Gansler says the group looked at the acquisition process in a holistic way.
October 05, 2015 -
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An effort to cut improper payments from the Obama administration hasn't worked the way the White House wanted. Comptroller General of the United States Gene Dodaro told the Senate Finance Committee improper federal payments increased by almost 20 percent in 2014. Beryl Davis, director of financial management and assurance issues at the Government Accountaibility Office, told In Depth with Francis Rose that GAO has been unable to determine the the full extent of improper payments.
October 05, 2015 -
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The House of Representatives will choose a new leader soon and one of the candidates has told members of a federal union he thinks they're hard working they deserve raises and it's time to stop demonizing them. He's one of the Republican candidates for Speaker. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced his candidacy for Speaker on TV yesterday. David Hawkings, senior editor of CQ Roll Call, told In Depth with Francis Rose he's watching how the Speaker's race is unfolding and how it might affect the executive branch.
October 05, 2015 -
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The Senate will begin debate on this year's National Defense Authorization Act this week. Bloomberg reports a cloture vote is likely tomorrow, with a vote on approval after that. The House passed the conference report on the NDAA 270 to 156 Thursday. Andrew Hunter, senior fellow in the International Security Program and director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told In Depth with Francis Rose the NDAA is a big deal every year, but this year it's even bigger.
October 05, 2015 Jill Robin Payne, a certified relationship specialist, describes the pitfalls of Internet dating.
October 03, 2015-
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A new survey from (ISC)² finds women make up just 10 percent of the information security workforce in 2015, down a percent from 2013, despite numbers of people entering the industry grew as a whole.
October 02, 2015 -
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Phyllis Schneck, the deputy undersecretary of cybersecurity and communications at the Homeland Security Department, said the EINSTEIN 3A program is part of a growing set of tools that are creating a cybersecurity immune system for federal networks and computers.
October 02, 2015 -
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Joe Jordan, president of Public Sector at FedBid and Robert Shea, principal at Grant Thornton, count down the week's top stories with Francis Rose.
October 02, 2015 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has specific set-aside requirements for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses. The requirements, though, may not always be clear even to contracting officers at the agency. Bill Welch, partner at McMahon, Welch and Learned, discussed one case as part of Industry Chatter on In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 01, 2015 -
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The government contracting industry is starting off the new fiscal year a little less healthy than a month ago. The same problems that are hitting stock prices of companies in broader indexes are affecting the government contracting space. And then there's the uncertainty around the shutdown on top of it all. Ross Wilkers is newsroom editor at Executive Mosaic, publishers of the GovCon Index. He discussed the impact of all this uncertainty as part of Industry Chatter on In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 01, 2015 -
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Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm sit down with Linda Mathes, CEO of the National Capital Chapter of the American Red Cross.
September 30, 2015 -
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Thursday isn't just the beginning of the new fiscal year. It's the first day of Energy Action Month. It's an important month for the Army. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why Energy Action Month matters to the Army and what it will mean for the force's mission.
September 30, 2015 -
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More cadets at West Point suffer concussions from mandatory boxing classes than from any other activity, including football. When The New York Times wanted to learn more about why, the Army appeared to prevent the Times from getting the information its reporter wanted until it could try to convince The Wall Street Journal and USA Today to run stories that supported its position on concussion research. Neither newspaper ever ran a story like that. Phil Carter, is retired from the Army retired and is a senior fellow, counsel and director of the Military, Veterans and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security. He told In Depth with Francis Rose these stories are important for a couple of reasons.
September 30, 2015
