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The curtain of secrecy is pulled back slightly on employee misconduct at the Justice Department. DOJ\'s Office of Inspector General is now posting summaries of its employee investigations on its website. Michael Horowitz is the inspector general at the Justice Department and chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose he hopes the new policy will make his office and others more transparent.
June 15, 2015 -
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Millennials make up about 16 percent of the federal workforce. The Office of Personnel Management says it wants to create a greater buzz around the federal job market and hire more young people. Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, says direct outreach is one of the best ways to get more people interested in a federal career. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose there are a few tools your agency can use to spread the word.
June 15, 2015 -
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The latest iteration of Better Buying Power from the Department of Defense and legislation coming out of the Senate Armed Services Committee are two of the most recent efforts to help DoD buy better. Michael O\'Hanlon is co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, and director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution. His latest work is titled, \"Pentagon Acquisition Policy: Three quarters right, one quarter broken\". He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about what he calls the JIEDDO model of acquisition.
June 15, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget launches a governmentwide database of coaches. It\'s the latest way the Obama administration hopes to boost morale in the federal workforce. The Health and Human Service has been using coaches for awhile now. Alan Meyers is the manager of leadership and organizational development programs at HHS. He tells Federal News Radio\'s Emily Kopp what questions coaches typically ask of their mentees.
June 15, 2015 -
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DATA Act compliance is under way -- or should be under way -- all across government. Now the collection of best practices and execution of the DATA Act is under way at least at the Treasury Department. Marla Freedman is the assistant inspector general for audit at the Treasury Department\'s Office of Inspector General. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose what her team looked at to see how Treasury\'s doing with the DATA Act.
June 15, 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 White House orders agencies to improve their cybersecurity and it gives them 30 days to come up with a plan, Maryland and Virginia senators want more credit protections for federal employees affected by the cyber attack and the Veterans Affairs Department designs a prototype for a new patient record system.
June 15, 2015 -
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On May 26, the Air Force certified Space X\'s Falcon Nine Launch System to carry out national security space missions. Space X, which was founded by Elon Musk, is now set to compete with Lockheed Martin and Boeing\'s United Launch Alliance for military space industry contracts. Bloomberg government senior defense analyst Rob Levinson joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on how Space X is transitioning into the military launch market.
June 15, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management has launched a government-wide database of coaches. These are federal employees who have received their own training to coach others to reach their goals. Steve Shih, the deputy associate director of OPM in charge of senior executive services and performance management, joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to talk about the motivations behind this coaching program.
June 15, 2015 -
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The federal government\'s official tally of the national debt is around $18 trillion. However some economists think the reality is darker. Boston University Professor Laurence Kotlikoff joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain what he thinks the national debt really is.
June 15, 2015 -
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It now appears as if the Office of Personnel Management was hit with two major data thefts. One affected not 4 million current and former federal employees, as OPM first believed, but more like 14 million. The second theft took highly sensitive information about millions of people with security clearance, data from the so-called SF 86 forms. Cyber Expert Rodney Joffe, vice president and fellow at Neustar, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain what this means if you are cleared, as well as for the agencies using cleared peopl
June 15, 2015 -
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In the wake of a second major data breach, the Office of Management and Budget is giving agencies 30 days to make critical fixes. OMB is ordering agencies to take four specific steps to better protect data and networks. Federal News Radio executive editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with details about the administration\'s latest cyber security effort.
June 15, 2015 -
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Jill Robin Payne, a certified relationship specialist, describes the pitfalls of Internet dating.
June 13, 2015 -
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Jeff Neal, senior vice president at ICF International, and Dan Mintz, principal at ESEM Consulting, count down the week\'s top federal stories with Francis Rose.
June 12, 2015 -
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Civilian personnel cuts are on the table as Congress debates the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act and defense appropriations bills. The Office of Personnel Management says seniority is the first factor agencies should consider when making reductions in force. Justin Johnson is a senior policy analyst for defense budgeting policy at the Heritage Foundation. He tells with Francis Rose that DoD shouldn\'t decide who to cut based on how much experience they have, but how well they\'re performing.
June 12, 2015
