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Commentary: Before turning to Silicon Valley for all the answers, government agencies should look to local talent in the D.C. area, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
May 27, 2015 -
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Sam Ganga, president of Global Mobility Services at DMI, will discuss mobile device management, cloud integration, and app design. May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 -
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The Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration has published a new guide to help agencies manage and label unclassified information.
May 26, 2015 -
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The Internal Revenue Service says it\'s notifying more than 100,000 taxpayers that their personal information was stolen from IRS data systems. As Federal News Radio\'s Jared Serbu reports, the data breach appears to have spanned about three months, and it appears to be the work of a highly-organized criminal syndicate.
May 26, 2015 -
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Discretionary spending for civilian agencies dropped 7 percent next year over 2015 levels, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee. But the committee\'s Democrats aren\'t happy about that. David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, writes the Hawkings Here blog. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose where Congress left some of its biggest appropriations negotiations before this week\'s recess.
May 26, 2015 -
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Cabinet-level agencies across government are developing their digital services strategies. Those teams will be innovation drivers throughout the Executive Branch. But eventually you\'ll have to do something with that innovation. Rory Schultz, deputy chief information officer at the Agriculture Department\'s Food and Nutrition Service, tells In Depth with Francis Rose, talking about innovation is fine, but eventually it will be time to move.
May 26, 2015 -
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A Senate hearing last week on civil service reform drummed up little interest, and there was little movement toward any legislation. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.) said his subcommittee was in a \"listening stage\" now. Bob Tobias, professor within the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University, said it shouldn\'t be so hard to gather members of Congress, the administration, agency and union leaders to talk about civil service reform. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose, government has done it already.
May 26, 2015 -
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The Railroad Retirement Board needs help upgrading its legacy systems. The agency has 200 major applications systems, with about 7 million lines of COBOL. The RRB is asking for $12 million through fiscal 2017 to modernize all of its applications and get rid of its legacy systems. Ram Murthy, chief information officer for the Railroad Retirement Board, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the first phase of the project.
May 26, 2015 -
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Imagine losing the ability to use everyday objects like your phone or even tie your shoes. It\'s an unfortunate reality for far too many veterans and civilians. VA\'s new Innovation Creation Series for Prosthetics and Assistive Technologies aims to help alleviate that. VA has invited designers and engineers to help find creative ways to solve these challenges. Andrea Ippolito is a presidential innovation fellow in VA\'s Office of Innovation; Melissa Oliver is an occupational therapist and assistive technology program coordinator. They joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with more on the Creation Series.
May 26, 2015 -
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It\'ll soon be easier for agencies to manage the dissemination of controlled unclassified information (CUI). That\'s thanks to a new guide published by the National Archives and Records Administration\'s Information Security Office. John Fitzpatrick is the office\'s director. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to explain what\'s in the guide.
May 26, 2015 -
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Bloomberg Government has compiled a list of the top 200 federal contractors of the last fiscal year and found some surprising trends. First off, it learned the government spent 3.1% less on contracts in fiscal 2014 than in 2013, when it had to deal with sequestration. Duncan Amos is a quantitative analyst at Bloomberg Government. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with more on the Federal Industry Leaders Study.
May 26, 2015 -
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The government spends about $1.2 billion a year on mobile devices and services. But the Government Accountability Office found many agencies aren\'t keeping good track of those devices, or the money it spends on them. Carol Cha is the director of IT acquisition management issues at GAO. She joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with more on the report.
May 26, 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 Senate has voted to make it easier for veterans to get medical care outside the VA system, Vice President Joe Biden is reassuring Iraq that the United States supports its fight against Islamic State militants and a labor union wants the government to follow the lead of Los Angeles and raise minimum wage.
May 26, 2015 -
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Denise Turner Roth, President Barack Obama\'s nominee to lead the General Services Administration says, if confirmed, she\'ll make sure recent reforms are woven into the agency\'s fabric.
May 25, 2015
