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The Intelligence Community wasn't thrilled when The New York Times published the names of three senior undercover CIA officers in an article back in April. The Times said it made its decision because the CIA officers hold leadership roles in "a significant paramilitary program." Aki Peritz is vice president of the Center for Intelligence Policy and a former counterterrorism analyst for the CIA. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose, the media and the IC need to communicate and sometimes compromise with each other.
August 21, 2015 Steve Bucci of the Heritage Foundation and Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments count down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
August 21, 2015-
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Agencies are dragging their employees kicking and screaming into open offices, as a Federal News Radio survey uncovered last month. The most wary ones are people with disabilities who need special accommodations to work. Ned Holland is the assistant secretary for administration at Health and Human Services. He tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp that HHS is rapidly consolidating its buildings under a White House directive. As it does so, it's turning to open offices.
August 21, 2015 -
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The Senior Executives Association and Federal Managers Association have asked Congress to investigate what they call a "hit list" created by VA’s largest labor union. It's a report compiled by the American Federation of Government Employees, which names managers and executives the union recommends for discipline. SEA questions whether the list was compiled on official time. Jason Briefel is the legislative director at SEA. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on this list and why the associations are so upset by it.
August 21, 2015 -
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Job one for federal agency tech staffs these days can be summed up in one word: Cybersecurity. A big part of ensuring safety of data is making sure networks are protected. Leo Taddeo is the chief security officer at Cryptozone, and former FBI Special Agent in charge of the bureau's Special Operations Cyber Division in New York. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some advice on best practices for network monitoring and intrusion prevention.
August 21, 2015 -
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A proposed rule to promote small business subcontracting should be revised to ease the compliance burden on prime contractors. That's the opinion expressed in a letter the American Bar Association's Section of Public Contract Law has sent to the General Services Administration. They claim the rule should be rewritten to allow primes to inquire about a small business's size directly from subcontractors, instead of an unreliable government database. Keir Bancroft is a partner in the government contracts practice at Venable. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the proposed rule and the ABA's objections to it.
August 21, 2015 -
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The first iteration of the cybersecurity dashboard under the continuous diagnostics and monitoring is supposed to come out later this month. It will soon be one piece of the toolkit agencies can use to step up their cybersecurity game. Molly O'Neill is vice president for state and local government industry at CGI and former chief information officer at the Environmental Protection Agency. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the dashboard is the tool agency managers need to understand where they stand on security.
August 20, 2015 -
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Congress will keep a close eye on whether the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act works for agencies as planned. Agencies were supposed to hand in their plans for implementing FITARA last week. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says it might consider giving agencies report cards to measure how well they stick to those plans. Dave Powner, director of information technology management issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why grades are a good idea and should push agencies to perform better.
August 20, 2015 -
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The nation's public transportation systems will be stronger when the next major storm hits. Adam Schildge is a senior program analyst at the Federal Transit Administration. He's in charge of a $3.6 billion competitive grant program. He developed a new methodology to help decide which public transportation projects might get hit in another storm in the future and which ones should get a resilience grant. He's a finalist for a Service to America medal in the Call to Service category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how he started his federal career.
August 20, 2015 -
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As the Army prepares to graduate the first two female Rangers in its history in a ceremony tomorrow, officials are insisting they did not alter their training standards to accommodate the Army’s first round of female students. But it’s still unclear whether those two new Rangers will ever be allowed to serve in direct ground combat. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
August 20, 2015 -
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L-3 is reshuffling its business portfolio again. The company is looking for alternatives for its National Security Solutions business, and L-3's Aerospace Systems might have the same fate. It's the second major reshuffling for L-3 in the past three years. Jesse Holler, a quantitative analyst for Bloomberg Government, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the move could signal a shift out of the low-margin services business.
August 20, 2015 -
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Frustrations over the Buy Indian Act are about as old as the law itself. Congress passed the bill back in 1910. It's supposed to open up Indian-owned businesses to the federal market. But it's unclear whether Buy Indian Act set-aside contracts take priority over other set-asides, especially at agencies like the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service. Steve Koprince, managing partner at Koprince Law, tells In Depth with Francis Rose what makes the bill so confusing.
August 20, 2015 -
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David Bray, the FCC’s chief information officer, has been creating the team, the processes and the culture to bring major changes to the way the commission manages and uses information technology.
August 20, 2015 -
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The Army plans on requesting proposals for the third iterations of its ITES and ADMC contracts by next January. New proposals will likely tackle target areas such as mobility, cloud integration and cybersecurity, but CHESS wants to make sure small businesses are in the running for contracts.
August 20, 2015
