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A House bill passed last week would give the Veterans Affairs Secretary much more flexibility to fire corrupt or poor-performing employees — not just top officials. The 2015 VA Accountability Act would expand on the authority of last year's Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act, which made it easier to get rid of senior executives engaged in wrongdoing. In this week's Legal Loop, employment attorney Lynne Bernabei, a partner at the law firm Bernabei and Watchel, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss more of the act's implications.
July 02, 2015 Get ready for a real crackdown on cybersecurity practices. Agencies have less than two weeks to make sure all their systems administrators and other employees, known as privileged users, can only log on using their smart identification cards. The Office of Management and Budget sets hard deadlines for agencies, and it seems like they're serious this time. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with exclusive details on this new requirement under the administration’s 30-day cyber sprint.
July 02, 2015The Office of Personnel Management says it's investigating the cyber breaches that allowed the loss of information of millions of federal employees. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose is former the Chief Information Officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He's now president of the Meyerrose Group. He tells In Depth at Francis Rose about what to expect next after OPM's cyber breaches.
July 01, 2015Soon the Pentagon and Google will be neighbors. The Defense Department is establishing a presence in Silicon Valley. The goal is to attract top tech talent to government work. Just taking that step might not be enough though. Peter Newell, former director of the Rapid Equipping Force at the Army and now managing partner at BMNT Partners, explains the challenges DoD will face on In Depth with Francis Rose.
July 01, 2015-
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he thinks negotiators from the House Armed Services Committee and his committee will wrap up their discussions within the next week or so. Language on defense procurement in both bills is part of the negotiation going on right now between the two committees. Jon Etherton, principal of Etherton & Associates, explains the similarities and differences in the two bills on In Depth with Francis Rose.
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The U.S. far ahead of any potential adversary in its ability to strike where and when it wants. But the gap is shrinking. Sustaining America's Precision Strike Advantage is the latest release from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Bryan Clark and Mark Gunzinger are senior fellows there and co-authors of the work. They joined Francis Rose on Pentagon Solutions to talk about the importance of the U.S. maintaining its precision strike advantage.
July 01, 2015 Jump-start your retirement income-building by listening to benefits expert Tammy Flanagan - this week's guest on Your Turn with host Mike Causey.
July 01, 2015Veterans Affairs faces a budget shortfall of more than $2.5 billion this year, mainly because of increased demand by veterans for health care. The problem is, three months still remain in the fiscal year. How do you deal with a situation like that? Simon Szykman is the chief technology officer in the Federal Services Division at Attain, and a former federal CIO. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with some advice for how senior leaders in a department can deal with a problem that affects them all.
July 01, 2015-
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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) says the Office of Personnel Management needs to do more to restore federal employees and Congressional members’ confidence in its ability to get the job done. He says a recent personal experience didn’t help OPM’s cause. Connolly tells executive editor Jason Miller about that personal experience and why OPM needs to perform better — and do it quickly.
July 01, 2015 A new test to quickly determine whether a patient has Ebola is under development at Health and Human Services. The test would deliver a diagnosis in 20 minutes and greatly assist in treatment and slowing the disease's spread. Dr. Robin Robinson is the director of Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority at HHS. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the test and the process by which the department set about creating it.
July 01, 2015The annual "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government" survey measures employees' job satisfaction, and is sponsored by the Office of Personnel Management, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte Consulting. When you dig into the numbers, you find something odd: Big differences between the viewpoints of rank-and-file federal employees and those in the Senior Executive Service. David Dye, the director of Federal Human Capital Services at Deloitte, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to analyze those differences.
July 01, 2015-
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Dr. Jack Midgley, director with Deloitte Tohmastu Consulting, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss Deloitte's 2015 Global Defense Outlook report. June 30, 2015
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The Office of Personnel Management's Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing system is offline now after the agency says it found a security vulnerability. The site will be offline for four to six weeks. OPM hasn't said the discovery came out of the 30-day cyber sprint called for by federal CIO Tony Scott. Karen Evans, executive director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge and former e-gov administrator at the Office of Management and Budget, is watching the agencies respond to Tony Scott's call. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose, how the OPM breach is changing the way agencies protect their data.
June 30, 2015 The federal government keeps meticulous records on the past performance of contractors in order to help agencies decide whether to award more work to those firms in the future. But that’s not true when it comes to grants to local governments and nonprofits. Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the White House wants to create a governmentwide repository of how grant dollars have been used in the past.
June 30, 2015
