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Evan Lesser, founder and director for ClearanceJobs.com, will discuss the challenges that agencies are facing in filling jobs that require a security clearance. June 5, 2015
June 05, 2015 -
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The cyber attack against the Office of Personnel Management is part of a year long coordinated effort to steal federal employee and contractors\' personal data. The Homeland Security Department issued an alert in May detailing a series of attacks against government and industry. Federal News Radio\'s Executive Editor Jason Miller explains why federal employees need to be more aware of targeted spear phishing attacks than ever before.
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The Internal Revenue Service is telling a relative handful of technology vendors that it plans to spend almost $130 million to upgrade its identity management systems. The plans would improve upon the technology that hackers breached in last month\'s theft of 100,000 taxpayer records. But they also diverge from a plan that\'s been in the works for years to unite all federal agencies under one authentication system. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
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Current and former federal employees affected by the Office of Personnel Management\'s data breach will get a notification by email starting Monday. OPM says it\'s working with the Homeland Security Department\'s Computer Emergency Readiness Team to figure out what exactly happened and why. Bob Gourley, a former chief technology officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, is now the co-founder of Cognitio. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what\'s next for federal agencies, and what questions you should be asking your cyber/IT leaders.
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The Defense Department cut 37 billion dollars in seven months during the 2013 sequester. The Pentagon says in some cases, automatic budget cuts cost DOD more money in the long run than they saved. But the Government Accountability Office says the Pentagon could do more to learn from the past so it doesn\'t repeat the same mistakes. Johana Ayers is the director of defense capabilities and management issues at GAO. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose, what the Pentagon has done so far, to learn about the impact of sequestration.
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Stan Soloway, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, and Ron Marks, senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University, count down the week\'s top federal stories with Francis Rose.
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Health and Human Services\' Buyer\'s Club celebrated its one-year anniversary earlier this week by releasing a major solicitation. The request for proposal marks a growing recognition that improving the federal acquisition process is possible. Mark Naggar is the program manager for the HHS Buyer\'s Club. He tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about how his organization is helping the Office of Population Affairs reform how it buys technology. Naggar says few agencies are particularly good at carrying out IT projects involving services.
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More than 70 years have passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor, where more than 2,000 sailors and Marines lost their lives. Only 35 were properly identified; the rest were buried as unknowns. But the military wants to change that, and recently announced it plans to exhume and attempt to identify the rest. Dr. Deborah Prince Zinni is a forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, she tells Federal News Radio\'s Lauren Larson why they launched the recovery efforts now.
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USA.gov is about to undergo another overhaul. The web portal, which the General Services Administration maintains, lets visitors search for government information based on topics or agency. But it hasn\'t always been easy to use. Sarah Crane, the acting director of the Federal Citizen Information Center at GSA, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the changes.
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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, 4 million feds and retirees will start finding out Monday if their personal information was stolen in a cyber attack, one inspector is forced out, another is nominated to a vacancy running on to seven years and sloppy procedures and contamination force the NIH to suspend operations at its own drug production center.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs promises Congress Thursday it will fix longstanding problems involving delayed payments to private-sector medical providers. The VA says a recent overhaul of its reimbursement system is already producing results. But health care providers tell a different story. They say they\'re still trying to bill the department for services they provided years ago. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
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Syria\'s four-year civil war leaves at least 7.6 million people without a home or sufficient food. Rob Thayer, the team leader of the Syrian food assistance program at the Office of Food for Peace at USAID, works with the United Nations World Food Program and other humanitarian partners to send and distribute more than $1.1 billion worth of food to Syrian refugees and displaced families within Syria. He and his team are finalists for a Service to America medal in the national security and international affairs category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the challenges of entering this kind of humanitarian crisis.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development is learning more about the countries it works with, thanks to a few new open data projects. The agency recently hosts its first-ever Open Data Hackathon. More than 100 participants worked on eight different projects. Alana Marsili, an open data specialist at USAID, led the Hackathon. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose about who participated.
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More small businesses could get more business under a new proposal in Congress. Steve Koprince, managing partner of Koprince Law, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the bill that would increase the Simplified Acquisition Threshold.
June 04, 2015
