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Congress has a little less than six work weeks left now before the fiscal year ends. Little movement on individual appropriations bills could mean that a short term spending bill is starting to look more likely. And yes, we may even have another fight over a potential government shutdown. David Hawkings, senior editor of Roll Call, writes the Hawkings Here blog. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu what Congress has left on its plate before the month-long recess in August.
July 13, 2015 -
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We know a little more now about both cyber breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. But there are still plenty of questions. David Snell is the director of the federal benefits service department at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. He testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittees on Research and Technology and Oversight last week. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu that he's worried not just about the breaches themselves, but the lack of communication between OPM and the federal workforce since then.
July 13, 2015 -
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The risk of cyber attacks -- like the recent OPM cyber breaches -- are exactly the type of events risk management programs are designed to identify and plan for. The Treasury Department is one agency that has stood up an entire office to strategize enterprise risk management -- well in advance of OMB guidance for 2016. Montrice Yakimov is the chief risk officer for the Bureau of Fiscal Service at the Treasury Department and leads its Office of Enterprise Risk Management. She tells Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller why Treasury's mission itself prompted the agency to develop a risk management portfolio.
July 13, 2015 -
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The two cyber breaches at the Office of Personnel Management have got the attention of the media and federal managers. It’s also landed on the plates of many chief information officers. “Everyone in the government…
July 13, 2015 -
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It'll be a tough road ahead for the next director of the Office of Personnel Management after Katherine Archuleta resigned. That person will enter an agency trying to recover from the biggest known breach of federal employee data in history. But what can they do to ensure success? Danny Werfel has been there, done that. He was brought in to lead the Internal Revenue Service in 2013 after its administrator stepped down due to a series of scandals. Now a director in the Public Sector practice at The Boston Consulting Group, he joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to share his experience.
July 13, 2015 -
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If you're connected to the Internet, you have an IP address. And while the net itself may seem infinite, IP addresses are not. In fact, IP version 4 addresses are supposed to run out. Internet Service Providers are upgrading to IPv6. At least, that's the plan. Jim Cowie is the Chief Scientist at Dyn, an Internet performance company. On the Federal Drive, he told Tom Temin why brokering IPv4 addresses is still a booming business.
July 13, 2015 -
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A new Government Accountability Office report suggests the Veterans Affairs Department is being too generous with some of its benefits. More vets are claiming unemployability benefits because of service-related injuries, and a greater proportion of them are past retirement age. That raises the question of what unemployability benefits are supposed to do in the first place. Daniel Bertoni is GAO's Director of Education, Workforce and Income Security. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to answer that question.
July 13, 2015 Nathan Garcia, managing director, Westbourne Investments, and the author of “The Seven New Rules of Retirement,” answers questions about the transition into retirement.
July 11, 2015-
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A brand new law just signed by President Obama will give a lot of federal employees the ability to start drawing retirement funds from the Thrift Savings Plan much earlier than had been allowed in the past. It's called the Defending Public Safety Emploees Retirement Act and it applies to several federal positions that are already eligible for early retirement. Tammy Flanagan is the senior benefits director for the National Institute for Transition Planning. She tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu how the law will work and what its impact will be.
July 10, 2015 -
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A cyber breach to the Office of Personnel Management's background check database is much larger than originally expected. 21.5 million people are affected. The agency's response to employees has revolved mostly around identity protection. But the focus on the espionage aspect of the attack has not gotten as much support from the agency. Retired Air Force General Michael Hayden was director of the National Security Agency and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that if he had a chance to get that kind of information about government workers of another country -- he'd do it instantly.
July 10, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management faces the daunting task of trying to make victims of its data breaches whole. Altogether there are more than 22 million people whose sensitive information was compromised in the hacks on OPM's personnel and security clearance systems. Alan Lopatin is the chairman of the Federal Postal Coalition whose member groups represent about five million federal employees and retirees. He tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp why he's advocating for more protection for data breach victims even before the latest details came to light.
July 10, 2015 -
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The cyber domain is often referred to as a new frontier in global conflict -- one that nations are still learning to fight in. But one expert says there are actually plenty of historical examples of conflict in cyberspace -- and that leaders need to study them if they want to understand what it means to win or lose in that domain. Jay Healey is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and senior research scholar at Columbia University. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu what it means to win in a cyber war.
July 10, 2015 -
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This program will provide a progress report on Cloud Computing in government.
July 10, 2015 -
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Veterans Affairs wants to make its MyHealtheVet web portal easier to use. Appointment scheduling is a key priority as the design improves vets' ability to schedule appointments on their desktop, mobile device or at in-facility kiosks. Kim Nazi is a senior program and management analyst in the Veterans and Consumer Health Informatics Office of the Veterans Health Administration. She joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with more of the MyHealtheVet redesign specifics.
July 10, 2015
