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The Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air. In today's news, it's Sloan Gibsono's first day as acting head of VA, and the Pentagon puts on hold a plan to allow some illegal immigrants to enlist.
June 02, 2014 -
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Jules Polonetsky, Future of Privacy Forum, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of consumer generated health information, such as through health or exercise apps.
May 31, 2014 -
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Mark Schroeder and Fred Burton from Stratfor, will give us an update on terrorist activities around the world, and the latest news on the Mexican drug war. May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 -
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The departure of Secretary Eric Shinseki at the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn't mean the crisis there is over. The next step is managing through the crisis. Martha Johnson was administrator at the General Services Administration when the conference scandal blew up at GSA. She's the first guest on a new program on Federal News Radio called Women in Washington. It debuts this coming Wednesday at 9 a.m., right after the Federal Drive. Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm host the show. Martha tells In Depth with Francis Rose the problem Secretary Shinseki found isn't unique to VA.
May 30, 2014 -
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The Pentagon freely admits that it's a whole lot better at buying weapons than it is at buying services. But since it's now spending more money on services than it is on products, it's time to get serious about service contracts. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu writes about that topic in this week's edition of Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook,
May 30, 2014 -
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Unless your name is Tammy Flanagan, you probably don't know everything about planning a federal retirement. Which means you might be leaving benefits on the table you never knew you had. Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning, is hosting a series of webinars starting on Thursday, June 12, to help explain the basics and three big mistakes people make when navigating the Federal Employees Retirement System.
May 30, 2014 -
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The debate to change the Army's force structure is switching focus from "should they do it" to "how." One strategy is a Commission on the Structure of the Army. Frank Hoffman, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, tells In Depth with Francis Rose a commission would be a big step backwards in the effort to make the Army more affordable.
May 30, 2014 -
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Following complaints of widespread discrimination, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is overhauling its system for evaluating employee performance. The financial watchdog's performance-appraisal system resulted in "systematically lower ratings" for black and Hispanic employees, employees over the age of 40, employees located in field offices and those employed at lower pay scales, according to report on the performance-appraisal system published by the agency earlier this month.
May 30, 2014 -
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Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, and Debra Roth, partner at Shaw Bransford & Roth, counted down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
May 30, 2014 -
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The Marines Corps is making it harder for cyber viruses to sneak from computers and laptops onto its networks. It's new approach to cybersecurity goes beyond continuous monitoring. Ray Letteer is the chief of the Marine Corps' cybersecurity division. He tells Federal News Radio executive editor Jason Miller about the initiative called comply-to-connect. Read Jason's related story.
May 30, 2014 -
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Four years after President Barack Obama signed an executive order telling agencies to settle on one standard for handling unclassified information, agencies are still applying their own labels and their own rules to withhold information from the public. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu reports. Read Jared's related article.
May 30, 2014 -
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Phased retirement, the idea of easing into it rather than leaving work altogether is one of the biggest unresolved issues for federal employees. Federal News Radio got some clarification this week from Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management. Federal News Radio's Web Manager Julia Ziegler joined Tom and Emily on the Federal Drive to discuss what she found out.
May 30, 2014 -
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Following complaints of discrimination, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is giving some employees retroactive pay. And it's overhauling the way it evaluates employees. To make an analogy, it's dropping letter grades and going to pass-fail system . The National Treasury Employees Union negotiated the changes on behalf of agency employees. Union President Colleen Kelley joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to discuss some of the complaints they were hearing from employees.
May 30, 2014 -
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Federal scientists hope to get the first inside look at hurricanes, thanks to new drones. This hurricane season the National Hurricane Center in Miami will send small-unmanned aircraft into the eyes of the storms. Joe Cione is a hurricane researcher at the center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to discuss what scientists hope to accomplish.
May 30, 2014
