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Picture this: the sound of helicopter blades above your head, the encouraging words from the military's toughest soldiers in your ears. This is what happens in the Navy Seal's Battlefrog Obstacle Race Series taking place this summer. You can walk a mile or so in a seal's shoes. Don Mann, chief operating officer of Battlefrog and former member of Seal Team Six, the group that took down Osama Bin Laden, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp the race is designed and inspired by Navy Seals.
May 08, 2014 -
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The Treasury Department's Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation wants help to make shared services a reality. O-FIT issues two requests for information to industry not long after naming four shared services providers. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller is here with details on the RFIs and where the initiative is heading next. Read the related story by Jason Miller.
May 08, 2014 -
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A virus has crossed our borders and put health professionals on high alert. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, in the United States. Officials say they knew the day would come. They prepared, and they're reacting now. Dr. David Swerdlow, incident manager for CDC, provided details about the CDC's plan of action to Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp
May 08, 2014 -
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The government needs more information security professionals. The USA Cyber Warrior Scholarship program trains veterans to meet the need and is expanding this year. Julie Peeler, director of the (ISC) Foundation, which runs the program explained the details of the program to Federal Drive host Emily Kopp.
May 08, 2014 -
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A lawsuit in Kentucky could force the Veterans Affairs Department to make radical changes to its health care system. A Marine, Cameron Anestis, killed himself after returning from Iraq. His family says he sought a mental health evaluation and treatment at two VA facilities but was turned away. A federal appeals court recently said his wife could sue the VA for negligence. Rob Watkins, a former Air Force lawyer and Veterans Affairs policy analyst now an associate attorney at Tully Rinckey, discussed the case with Federal Drive host Emily Kopp.
May 08, 2014 -
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The Morning 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.
May 08, 2014 -
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The Treasury Department's Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation wants help to make shared services a reality. O-FIT issues two requests for information to industry not long after naming four shared services providers. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller is here with details on the RFIs and where the initiative is heading next. Read the related story by Jason Miller.
May 07, 2014 -
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The House Armed Services Committee is marking up the Pentagon's 2015 Defense Authorization bill today. Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) has a series of proposals that include some accounting finesse to appropriate more than $2 billion worth of unobligated funds into next year. He wants to balance that with some targeted spending cuts too. John Donnelly, editor of Congressional Quarterly's Defense Blog, tells In Depth with Francis Rose the balance in the 2015 Defense Authorization bill gets more precarious the longer the markup goes.
May 07, 2014 -
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The Navy is scrapping a plan to overhaul one of its 11 aircraft carriers. The Defense Department says doing that frees up money to spend on the Littoral Combat Ship program. Everett Pyatt is leader of the Project for Defense Management and Acquisition Leadership Program at the McCain Institute and a former assistant secretary of the Navy. He's writing in Real Clear Defense about the Navy's budget plans.
May 07, 2014 -
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The intelligence community, like the rest of government, is coping with a sudden budget decrease. But leaders say they're committed to not repeating the serious workforce mistakes policymakers made during the last budget cut two decades ago, when new hiring ground to a halt. Read the related story by Jared Serbu.
May 07, 2014 -
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Very few topics are likely to get you and your colleagues up in arms to the point of argument. Mike Causey has managed to do that in his column.
May 07, 2014 -
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An aging workforce and how to backfill retirements is a common issue for agencies across government. The Postal Service has developed the Corporate Succession Planning Program to cultivate executives who can move into the leadership positions that open when employees retire. Lori Nelson, director in the Postal Service Office of Inspector General' Office of Audit, tells In Depth with Francis Rose the demographic problem the Postal Service faces.
May 07, 2014 -
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Today is markup day for the National Defense Authorization Act in the House Armed Services Committee. Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) has already killed the idea of approving a round of Base Realignment and Closure this year. But the Defense Department sees the potential for some progress on another round of BRAC. John Conger, acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for installations and environment, talked to In Depth with Francis Rose about the effort the Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is making to push toward a BRAC round.
May 07, 2014 -
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John Hickey, the mobility program manager for the Defense Information Systems Agency, talks about the status of DoD's commercial mobile device programs, for both classified and unclassified communications. Greg Wenzel, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, discusses the findings of a recent survey of government employees about DoD acquisition.
May 07, 2014
