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Emily McConnell of the Partnership for Public Service and Michelle Marcarelli talk to Studio Y about recruiting high-performing interns through the Federal Student Ambassadors program.
May 15, 2015 -
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Doctors and scientists know more about diagnosing and treating cancer than ever before, thanks to the discoveries of the Cancer Genome Atlas. The atlas maps genetic mutations of 33 different cancers and collects more than 11,000 specimens. Jean Claude Zenklusen is director of the Cancer Genome Atlas Program Office at the National Cancer Institute. He and his colleague, Carolyn Hutter of the National Human Genome Research Institute, are Service to America medal finalists in the Science and Environment category. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he explains what the atlas entails.
May 14, 2015 -
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Your agency\'s program managers could soon have new guidelines, training and recruitment policies. Reps. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) introduce the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act. It organizes a council with senior leaders in the Office of Management and Budget to set new standards for program managers. It also designates one senior executive in each agency as the Program Management Improvement Officer. Rob Burton, a partner at Venable and a former deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, tells In Depth with Francis Rose how this could impact your agency\'s project portfolio.
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Contractors are responsible for reporting 11 transactional data elements under a proposed rule from the General Services Administration. GSA says it won\'t take long for companies to get their systems ready for the new requirements and then do the reporting. Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, tells In Depth with Francis Rose, the time it will take companies to meet GSA\'s proposed requirements is at least 30 times more than what the agency is predicting.
May 14, 2015 -
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One thing federal agency managers have learned over the past year, is that cybersecurity isn\'t just an IT problem. It impacts every part of an organization. That\'s why the National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a new publication to help managers embed cybersecurity thinking throughout their organizations. Ron Ross is a fellow at NIST. He tells executive editor Jason Miller about how the agency is borrowing a page from an international standard.
May 14, 2015 -
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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has announced a series of overhauls to the Navy and Marine Corps\' personnel system, saying it needs more flexibility to meet the demands of a 21st century workforce. As Federal News Radio\'s Jared Serbu reports, the changes will impact everything from how service members are promoted to physical fitness tests and military uniforms.
May 14, 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 Defense Secretary nominates two officers to the top military positions in the Army and Navy, the House appropriations committee not only rejects a budget increase for Amtrak, it votes for a big cut, Homeland Security\'s inspector general issues a tough report on the latest Secret Service incident.
May 14, 2015 -
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You never know what can come up in a psychiatric session. At the Veterans Affairs medical center in Louisville, two patients complained that Dr. Patricia Kinne revealed her sexual orientation. They requested another doctor, and she received a warning from center management. But management\'s case didn\'t prevail at the Office of Special Counsel. Federal employment attorney Cheri Cannon of the law firm Tully Rinckey joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the lessons learned in this case.
May 14, 2015
