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The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chairman Ron Johnson and Ranking Member Tom Carper, have concerns about the security measures the Thrift Savings Plan takes. The TSP says it\'s moving to deal with those concerns. Kim Weaver, director of external Affairs at the TSP, tells In Depth with Francis Rose that TSP Board got an update on the security plan at its monthly meeting.
May 20, 2015 -
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The Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt is one of the most effective aircraft in the fleet. Its project leaders say the Thunderbolt\'s simple design means its development time and maintenance costs beat out other, more complex systems. But simple weapons systems are hard to come by now at the Defense Department. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward is now a cybersecurity fellow at the New America Foundation and his latest book is \"The Simplicity Cycle.\" He tells In Depth with Francis Rose, government technology development programs are too complex, and simpler alternatives are already out there.
May 20, 2015 -
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Joanne Connelly, president and CEO of Connelly Works, sat down with Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm to discuss her career as a reporter and leader of a PR/marketing firm in Washington.
May 20, 2015 -
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This afternoon, Rep. Darrell Issa (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a bill that will change the way financial regulatory agencies go about their work. The Financial Transparency Act of 2015 would modernize the process of financial regulatory reporting, and force all nine major financial regulators to adopt open data formats for everything they collect. Hudson Hollister, executive director of the Data Transparency Coalition, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to analyze the bill\'s implications and importance.
May 20, 2015 -
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The Treasury Department survived it, and so will you. But you can\'t avoid it. By June 15, every large agency will go through the new FedStat process as part of its fiscal 2017 budget development. The Office of Management and Budget kicked off its latest data-driven review with Treasury earlier this week. Federal News Radio\'s executive editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with details on what agencies should expect when they enter the Fed-STAT review chamber.
May 20, 2015 -
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The Partnership for Public Service has announced the 30 finalists for this year\'s Service to America Medals (SAMI). Among them is Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease at the National Institutes of Health. He and his team developed the first effective drug treatment for sickle cell disease — something that\'s resisted cures for decades. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review his work.
May 20, 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, a bill approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would let inspectors general subpoena former federal employees and federal contractors, a Virginia congressman wants the TSP to have a new fund devoted to companies with women in positions of leadership and the Senate passes a bill to clarify how Border Patrol agents get paid.
May 20, 2015 -
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Niall Brennan, chief data officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services joins host John Gilroy to discuss big data, healthcare analytics, data storage and data curation. May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 -
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Sequestration and the government shutdown dominated the focus of agency and business leaders in 2013 when Rick Holgate became president of the American Council of Technology. About to step down, he sees a changed landscape.
May 19, 2015 -
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Robert Coen, program director of the NIH IT GWAC program, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss how agencies are using the NIH\'s contract vehicles to meet customer needs. May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 -
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Both the House and Senate versions of this year\'s defense authorization bill include numerous provisions on acquisition reform. But the Pentagon has serious questions about at least a few of the provisions, including one that would give the military\'s uniformed leaders more control over procurement decisions. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
May 19, 2015 -
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Homeland Security Department Secretary Jeh Johnson says his agency can\'t move forward unless it stops talking about low morale. Sharla Rausch, chair of the Women in Homeland Security STEM Committee, is former deputy director of the Office of National Laboratories for DHS. When she was at the agency, she told her colleagues, \"It all boils down to people.\" But in a piece for Security Debrief, she says rearranging a few of those words more accurately describes how federal employees are feeling today — and not in a good way. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose why national security boils down to understanding your employees.
May 19, 2015 -
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The Transportation Security Administration gets more customer complaints on its pre-check screening program as more passengers use it. But the TSA doesn\'t have a comprehensive policy for releasing that information to the public. Gary Becker, chief economist for Catalyst Partners and former senior economist for the Homeland Security Department\'s private sector office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the customer service complaint data and what this could mean for TSA.
May 19, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget is taking comments now on its guidance for implementing the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. FITARA could be a big landscape change for government IT— for both the government buyers and the industry sellers. Richard Spires, former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service and now chief executive officer at Resilient Network Systems, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why he\'s positive about FITARA.
May 19, 2015
