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Commentary: Federal Drive host Tom Temin says he sees no other choice than for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to resign over the agency\'s massive data breaches.
June 17, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget tells agencies they have 30 days to secure their networks. It appears to be reacting to the second major cyber breach at the Office of Personnel Management. That second breach puts military and intelligence security clearance holders at risk. You can read the details about the second breach at Federal News Radio dot com. Dave McClure is chief strategist at the Veris Group, and former associate administrator at the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the General Services Administration. He\'s writing about a few ground rules your agency should think about for better cybersecurity. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the \"cut and paste\" approach to collecting threat information and what that means for agencies.
June 16, 2015 -
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The Pentagon has plenty of rules and regulations designed to enforce good cyber behavior. But DoD\'s chief information officer says as of now, there are far too few consequences for users who violate those rules. Federal News Radio\'s DoD reporter Jared Serbu tells In Depth with Francis Rose that\'s about to change.
June 16, 2015 -
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The massive data breach impacting anywhere between 4 million and 14 million current and former federal employees, congressional staff and even contractors can be tied back to old technology. Time and again, the Office of Personnel Management tried to explain to House lawmakers today that modern cybersecurity technologies don\'t work well with 25 to 30-year-old systems. Federal News Radio\'s Executive Editor Jason Miller tells In Depth with Francis Rose that OPM and other executives were taken to task on Capitol Hill for the cyber breach.
June 16, 2015 -
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Every agency in government will roll out its own Buyer\'s Club program. It will be *based* on the one at the Department of Health and Human Services but it shouldn\'t be a copy of the HHS model, according to Anne Rung, the administrator of Federal Procurement Policy. Bryan Sivak, a former chief technology officer for HHS, was a driving force behind the Idea Lab and the Buyer\'s Club at the agency. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the origins of the Idea Lab, and how the Buyer\'s Club came out of it.
June 16, 2015 -
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Your mom told you not to get a tattoo. Now that magnificent body art could become a sort of biometric identifier for law enforcement. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology and the FBI want to use tattoos to help identify people, be they suspects or victims of natural disasters. NIST shared some of the initial results of its research at a recent workshop. Mei Ngan is a computer scientist with NIST. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the identification efforts.
June 16, 2015 -
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The World Health Organization estimates that indoor air pollution contributes to 4.3 million premature deaths per year in developing nations. The toxic air is coming from meals cooked over open fires and crude stoves. Jacob Moss is a senior adviser at the Environmental Protection Agency, and led creation of the Cookstoves Initiatives, which is designed to bring cleaner fuels and more efficient stoves to the developing world. For that he is a finalist for the 2015 Service to America Medals. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain how the project got off the ground.
June 16, 2015 -
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This program will provide a progress report on Health IT in government.
June 16, 2015 -
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These days the government seems to have stars in its eyes when it looks west. Silicon Valley is a favorite recruiting ground for the Obama administration. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson wants to establish a satellite office there, and Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the department needs the help of tech players in a \"true innovation ecosystem\" like Silicon Valley. But what makes those startups superior to those right here in our nation\'s capital? After all, the startup environment here is tailored to the federal customer. Michael Daniels has founded several local companies, and is chairman of both Invincea and the Logistics Management Institute. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to try and answer that question.
June 16, 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, OPM sends emails to federal employees telling them about a second cyber breach, a State Department computer hardware failure has prevented issuance of thousands of temporary and immigrant visas since last week and Privacy advocates are fuming about a federal system called Midas.
June 16, 2015 -
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The Army is reexamining its recruitment process. The ultimate goal is to refine the recruiting process so the service still attains top-notch soldiers without \"industrial age\" metrics that only measure raw numbers of recruits.
June 16, 2015 -
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Legitimate whistleblower or a blowhard masking poor performance? It\'s a judgment call federal managers have to make every day. No one wants to inadvertently punish someone who legitimately finds something wrong, or let a crumb-bum get away with murder. John Palguta, vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer some advice on navigating this thin line.
June 15, 2015 -
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Students from eight universities are spending the next year working on new technology projects for deep space exploration. The X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge, led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation, has teams working on additive manufacturing, advanced life support systems, space habitation and systems for food production in space. Jason Crusan is the director of the Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the projects.
June 15, 2015 -
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The Senate is back at work for the third week now on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants to get the bill moving, but more debate over a few key amendments could slow things down. David Hawkings, senior editor of Roll Call, writes the In Depth with Francis Rose about the status of the NDAA right now, and what is likely to happen this week.
June 15, 2015
