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NASA\'s Ames Research Center has a new director. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently placed Dr. Eugene Tu in charge of the California-based center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Tu joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to talk about his new position and his priorities now that he\'s in charge. First, he recapped the center\'s history and its mission.
June 18, 2015 -
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The letters sent to those affected by the Office of Personnel Management cyber breach contain a certain sentence that attempts to indemnify the government from any liability surrounding the breach. But that sentence alone may not protect the government from someone who wants to sue it for damages. Federal employment attorney Heidi Burakiewicz, a partner at the law firm Mehri and Skalet, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with an insider\'s look at how the 1974 Privacy Act could cover recent cyber attacks and let lawsuits fly.
June 18, 2015 -
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The Federal Headlines is a daily compilation of the stories you hear discussed on Federal News Radio each day. It is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com readers more information about the stories heard on the radio. In today\'s news, members of Congress from both parties are calling for the resignation of OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, the IRS would face its smallest budget since 2004 under a plan approved by the House Appropriations Committee and the Obama administration is becoming more certain that China\'s government, and not criminal hackers, engineered the massive theft of personal information from OPM.
June 18, 2015 -
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Tyler Morris and April Chen, with Iron Mountain Government Services, join host John Gilroy to discuss a recent survey that looks at the records management challenges facing federal IT officials. June 17
June 17, 2015 -
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Data visualization is the next step in the data revolution in government. Visualization is taking the data and presenting it in a way that someone can do something with it. Claire Thomas is project manager for FEMA.gov\'s data visualization tool at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose what the visualization tool does and how people will use it.
June 17, 2015 -
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On this week\'s On DoD, Jared Serbu talks to two of the officials overseeing the Joint Information Environment effort from the DoD CIO\'s office.
June 17, 2015 -
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Every agency will have a digital services team to shore up IT acquisitions and delivery. Lots of outsiders say the talent attraction challenge will be hard for agencies. Jennifer Tress is director of talent for the General Services Administration\'s 18F Innovation Lab. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose that government leaders are banking on selling the mission to bring people in.
June 17, 2015 -
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The General Services Administration\'s 18F needs some help. Agencies are asking for their services around agile development and Dev/Ops at a rate that 18F can\'t keep up with. So they are turning to industry. Chris Cairns is the director of 18-F Consulting. Dave Zvenyach is the project lead for the new agile blanket purchase agreement that 18F released on Wednesday. They tell Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller about the BPA and how it will help agencies move toward a more agile approach for IT projects.
June 17, 2015 -
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A blended retirement plan for uniformed military personnel is headed to Capitol Hill. The blend is a mix of the current defined benefit plan and a defined contribution plan that would be set up in the Thrift Savings Plan. Dr. James Joyner is an associate professor at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the time is right for a look at military retirement.
June 17, 2015 -
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Government spends $21 billion a year on building maintenance operations. The Obama administration knows it doesn\'t need all of the property it owns, but real property management has been on the Government Accountability Office\'s High Risk List since 2003. Dave Wise, director of physical infrastructure issues at GAO, testified this week before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that there are better ideas for real property management, but they haven\'t been implemented yet.
June 17, 2015 -
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The massive data breach impacting up to 14 million current and former federal employees, congressional staff and even contractors can be blamed partly on old technology. Time and again, the Office of Personnel Management tried to explain to House members yesterday that modern cybersecurity technologies don\'t work well with decades-old systems. Federal News Radio\'s executive editor Jason Miller was on Capitol Hill, where OPM and other agency executives were taken to task for the cyber breach. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with a recap of the hearing.
June 17, 2015 -
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A lot of female veterans feel invisible, both on active duty and at home. That\'s according to a new survey released by the non-profit The Mission Continues. The survey found that female veterans feel a need to prove themselves twice: First to be recognized as warriors by their male peers in the military, and then for their service when they return home. Mary Beth Bruggeman is the southeast executive director for The Mission Continues and a Marine Corps veteran. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the survey.
June 17, 2015 -
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More than 11 million Americans live with severe schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. You\'ll often find these individuals on the streets. Many end up behind bars; then there\'s violence — from Sandy Hook to the Navy Yard. Now the federal government may be gearing up to do something about it. The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act was reintroduced by psychologist and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.). He joined the federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update from the hearing.
June 17, 2015 -
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The Federal Headlines is a daily compilation of the stories you hear discussed on Federal News Radio each day. It is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com readers more information about the stories heard on the radio. In today\'s news, the Social Security numbers of millions of current and former feds stolen in the OPM cyber breach were not encrypted, federal database hacks are popping up all over and Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduce an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2016.
June 17, 2015
