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The General Services Administration has a new tool to help contracting officers figure out how much they should pay for work. CALC.gov lists pay rates across eight professional services categories, with 48,000 labor categories and at least 5,000 GSA contracts. But the rates listed on the site are the highest prices contracting officers could pay, not the lowest. The 18F Innovation Lab built the tool and says acquisition officers should make better purchases with more access to more information. Stan Soloway, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why he\'s not so sure.
June 01, 2015 -
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Many chief human capital officers say they\'re having trouble adjusting to the new requirements of the Pathways internship program. That\'s according to a survey the Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton released last summer. Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, says agencies can make their internship programs more valuable to managers and their interns. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about 15 best practices.
June 01, 2015 -
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff added their own recommendations on military retirement reform and sent them to Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Most of their recommendations are similar to proposals in both the House and Senate National Defense Authorization Acts. But the recommendations from the chiefs may throw a wrinkle into the congressional debate. Todd Harrison, a senior fellow for defense studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, tells In Depth with Francis Rose what the Joint Chiefs are proposing.
June 01, 2015 -
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Shadow IT is a concept most agencies struggle with -- infrastructure that agency personnel implement outside the agency CIO\'s approval and outside the agency\'s IT architecture strategy. Scott Milliken found a problem that was even more complicated. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the problem he found when he became computer facility manager at the Energy Department\'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and how he fixed the problems.
June 01, 2015 -
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives\' history dates back to the Civil War era. The Center for American Progress says some of the bureau\'s mission areas are out of date and unfocused. Chelsea Parsons, vice president for guns and crime policy at CAP, is a co-author of the report, \"The Bureau and the Bureau.\" She told In Depth with Francis Rose, the ATF\'s identity crisis starts with three big challenges.
June 01, 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 National Security Agency can no longer collect phone records in bulk... for now anyway, Rep. Jason Chaffetz subpoenas an IRS official over the agency\'s handling of FOIA requests and as many as 20,000 current and former employees of the Indian Health Service will receive compensation for overtime they weren\'t paid for.
June 01, 2015 -
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The State Department wants to ramp up its use of data and technology. Those are just a few of the goals covered in the newest version of the department\'s quadrennial review. Tom Periello is a special representative for the quadrennial diplomacy and development review in the State Department. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on what else is in the plan — and how it\'s different from previous years.
June 01, 2015 -
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The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of defense contractor KBR Inc. in a whistleblower suit brought by a former employee. Benjamin Carter accused KBR of defrauding the government over water purification work in Iraq. The justices ruled unanimously that a law extending the time frame for fraud claims committed against the U.S. during wartime doesn\'t apply to civil claims. Brian McLaughlin, a counsel in the Government Contracts Group at the law firm Crowell and Moring, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the lessons learned.
June 01, 2015 -
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Federal contractor groups have some strong objections to a new proposed rule from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council. It would force contractors who have broken labor laws to disclose the violations before they can get another contract; the Labor Department has also endorsed it. Ben Brubeck is the director of Labor and Federal Procurement at Associated Builders and Contractors. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain why so many contractors are so upset.
June 01, 2015 Trisha Calvo of Consumer Reports discusses types of sunscreen, how to use them effectively and what the SPF really means.
May 31, 2015-
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Lance James, head of cyber intelligence at Deloitte, will discuss the evolution of the cyber intelligence field, and how that is forcing the government and private companies to change how they protect themselves from cyber attacks. May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 -
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Frank Reeder, co-founder and director of the Center for Internet Security, and Jim Beaupre, director of the ACT-IAC Academy, count down the week\'s top federal stories with Francis Rose.
May 29, 2015 -
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Using tools it\'s honed on its own employees, the National Security Agency is launching the intelligence community\'s answer to the federal hiring portal USAJobs.gov.
May 29, 2015 -
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Pentagon officials started warning Congress over two years ago that letting the automatic budget cuts take place would cost money — not save it. A new report from the Government Accountability Office offers some evidence that they were right. Federal News Radio\'s Jared Serbu tells In Depth with Francis Rose about this week\'s edition of Inside The Reporter\'s Notebook.
May 29, 2015
