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What is federal acquisition? How are agencies enhancing their acquisition capabilities? Are there new ways to procure goods and services for federal agencies? What does the future hold for federal acquisition? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with key senior government executives and thought leaders.
July 06, 2015-
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Homeland Security and the Agriculture Department recently broke ground on a new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The Kansas-based facility is slated to open in 2022 and help USDA study animal-to-human diseases. Jamie Johnson, the director of the National Bio and Agro Defense Program at DHS, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the facility.
July 06, 2015 Steph Warren, VA’s chief information officer, is cautiously optimistic about the trajectory of cyber attacks against his agency. After hitting a peak of one billion attempted malware intrusions in the month of March, the figure fell to half that in May. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, VA is crediting better perimeter defenses and tighter controls on employees’ access to suspicious websites.
July 06, 2015-
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The Drug Enforcement Administration's Western Laboratory won the Federal Green Challenge award from the Environmental Protection Agency after the lab increased its electronics recycling more than any other federal agency in 2014. It recycled tons of electronics and nearly 10% more than its 2013 level. Zoe Heller manages the Zero Waste Section in EPA's Pacific Southwest Region. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the challenge, and some lessons everyone can learn from the DEA lab.
July 06, 2015 -
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In today's news, security clearance applicants will be cutting down a few trees to keep their applications moving along, Congress returns to work today following the July Fourth break and the Pentagon contractors ranked below retailers and banks for cybersecurity last month in an industry-developed ranking system.
July 06, 2015 Greg McBride of Bankrate.com discusses the ratio of credit card debt to savings and the problems caused by the high debt load.
July 04, 2015-
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Cmdr. Mark Rives, the director of IT and the chief information officer at the Indian Health Service, said the challenges of getting high-speed Internet access to rural communities is forcing the agency to figure out other ways to take advantage of big data tools and analytics.
July 03, 2015 -
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In the 1970s most people in the medical community didn't believe it was possible to use a patient's own body to attack cancer cells and slow tumor growth. Dr. Steven Rosenberg did and advanced the field of immunotherapy. Dr. Rosenberg is chief of the surgery branch of the National Cancer Institute and a finalist for a Service to America Medal in the career achievement category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how immunotherapy works and how its changing how doctors treat cancer.
July 03, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management cyber breaches are pushing the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to encourage agencies to move to the Einstein program. That program is billed as a way to uncover intrusions. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is working on the bill along with the chairman of the Committee, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Carper tells In Depth with Francis Rose why he and Senator Johnson think the bill is necessary and what they want it to accomplish.
July 02, 2015 The blame for the Office of Personnel Management cyber breach is on OPM right now. But OPM said the breach wasn't its fault. Larry Allen is president of Allen Federal Business Partners and writes the Week Ahead newsletter. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose where the finger gets pointed when something goes wrong.
July 02, 2015-
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The Supreme Court only hears a few dozen cases a year. But one on the docket will answer big questions around contracting practices by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The question for the court is does the VA have to give preference to veteran-owned small businesses in all instances? Steve Koprince, managing partner of Koprince Law, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the case's potential impact.
July 02, 2015 The government's cybersecurity spend is destined to go toward figuring where the cyber holes are while cloud computing adoption continues at a modest pace. These are a few predictions from Deltek's Federal IT Industry Outlook. Deniece Peterson is the director of federal industry analysis for Deltek. On Industry Chatter, she tells In Depth with Francis Rose her prognosis for the Federal IT market.
July 02, 2015Think you've got what it takes to get some tough work across the line before the Obama administration expires? Then listen up. Back in December, the President promised to launch a career development program that would prepare future federal executives to lead the government through complicated, interdisciplinary hurdles. That program is getting off the ground now. Jenny Mattingley is its director. She tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp that the program starts with a question.
July 02, 2015The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission celebrates its 50th anniversary today. And while it's made a lot of progress since 1965, there's still a lot of work to do to achieve across-the-board equality of opportunity in today's workplace. Jenny Yang is the chairwoman of the EEOC. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the celebration and the work the agency still has to accomplish.
July 02, 2015
