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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 President nominates the vice commandant of the Coast Guard to be the next TSA administrator, a long-term veteran of intelligence community technology has retired from government and even before it\'s debated, the House version of 2016 Defense spending draws fire from the White House.
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Andrew Hoppin, president of NuCivic, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how federal IT employees can use open source to achieve their agency\'s goals. April 28, 2015
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Jason Carey and Luke Meier from McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, join host Roger Waldron to discuss the uptick in bid protests and what that means for government and industry. April 28, 2015
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Agencies need to do a better job with their succession planning and next genertion training, but budget cuts, hiring freezes and sequestration haven\'t helped. Mission critical projects come up, and departments don\'t have the expertise to see them through when long-time federal employees retire. Some agencies are turning to reemployed annuitants for help. As part of our special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave, Federal News Radio\'s Nicole Ogrysko spoke with federal retirees who left government and came back. Read the Reverse Retirement Wave: Planning for a Workforce that\'s Aging in Place.
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Three years ago, Congress ordered DoD start exploring the possibility of letting servicemembers earn civilian skill credentials while they\'re still in uniform. Military officials say they\'ve done much more than study the issue: civilian credentialing programs have seen a dramatic expansion over the last several years, giving servicemembers tens of thousands of new skill certifications that are recognized by private sector employers. Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu has the details.
April 28, 2015 -
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Landing a gyrocopter outside U.S. Capitol building to send a message is a felony. But the postal worker who did that also did federal agencies a big favor. That\'s according to Chris Cummisky, a senior fellow for the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University, and former acting under secretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said the gyrocopter incident presents an opportunity for federal agencies to improve their risk management strategies.
April 28, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management reports March was the fifth month in a row they got fewer retirement claims than they expected to. The retirement wave that federal agencies and outside observers predicted, starting in the late 1990s, has never happened. In fact, the federal workforce gets older every year. That\'s the focus of our special report \"The Reverse Retirement Wave: Planning for a Workforce that\'s Aging in Place.\" Three Federal human capital experts joined In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about the results of the survey: Jeff Neal of ICF International, and former Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of Homeland Security; John Salamone of FMP Consulting, and former Executive Director of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council at the Office of Personnel Management; and Ron Sanders of Booz Allen, and former CHCO at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
April 28, 2015 -
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There\'s some familiar language lurking in this year\'s National Defense Authorization Act. Once again the House Armed Services Subcommittee seems poised to explicitly bar DoD from even considering another BRAC round. But Congress\' attitude seems to have softened from \"never,\" to \"maybe later.\" Federal News Radio\'s Jared Serbu writes about it this week\'s edition of \"Inside the DoD Reporter\'s Notebook.\"
April 28, 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 Architect of the Capitol has a new project on his plate, an inspector general finds Army families\' sensitive information may be at risk and the Social Security Administration wants to make customer service, employees and innovation some of its top priorities.
April 28, 2015 -
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The National Institutes of Health has awarded a new governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC). The $20 billion contract, Chief Information Officers-Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS) was divided among 65 total companies. It\'ll help provide the entire federal government with IT solutions. Rob Coen is the director of the agency\'s IT Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC). He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to further examine the GWAC.
April 28, 2015 -
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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is beefing up its nuclear support mission to meet the expectations of DoD\'s 2014 Nuclear Enterprise Review. A new nuke-focused directorate will tackle oversight, investment, personnel and training, as recommended in the review. Director Kenneth Myers announced the directorate last week at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. It\'ll be fully operational in just a few days. On the Federal Drive, Myers told Federal News Radio\'s Lauren Larson why a nuclear directorate is needed.
April 28, 2015 -
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The politics that surround illegal immigration are thorny, but so are the logistics. The Homeland Security Department\'s inspector general has chastised the department for sending detainees home on nearly empty flights and failing to record critical information about those detainees, like whether or not they belong to gangs. IG John Roth says the department could have saved more than $40 million through better planning. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to offer a solution.
April 28, 2015 -
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The so-called \"retirement wave\" isn\'t coming. But a dramatically different workforce challenge is coming fast.
April 28, 2015 -
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The retirement tsunami has long been the \"boogeyman\" of federal HR managers -- that baby boomers would be leaving the civil service in droves as they became eligible for retirement. An exclusive Federal News Radio survey reveals that something else may be going on. In part 1 of our special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave, we explore why federal employees are opting to stay on the job longer even though they are eligible to retire.
April 28, 2015
