Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
On Air: Federal News Network
Radio Interviews
-
![]()
Agencies finally get guidance on fiscal 2014 budgets. And the federal government saw an uptick in retirements last month.
August 07, 2012 -
![]()
Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) believes a VA contracting program that requires service-disabled vets control 100 percent of their company's decision-making to qualify is too onerous. And he wants to ease the requirements.
August 07, 2012 -
![]()
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says it's now clear another round of BRAC isn't in the cards in the immediate future, but maintains it will be necessary to keep a "balanced force."
August 07, 2012 -
![]()
The Air Force wants to know what its airmen and civilian employees think of the food at installations and bases.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
Too often Congress is left "in the dark" when it comes to inspector general investigations of agency misconduct, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wrote in a letter to 73 inspectors general. Issa said he wanted to "establish an understanding between Congress and the IG community" for more rapid reporting of agency misdeeds uncovered by their offices. In his letter, Issa asked the inspectors for more information about their reporting practices to Congress and whether any serious problems were ever not shared with lawmakers.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
The Office of Personnel Management received more claims than expected last month, but for the third month in a row processed more claims than it expected to. OPM has also made progress cutting the longstanding backlog of retirement claims. At 44,679 claims, there are now fewer retirement claims stuck in the backlog than there were in December 2011, when OPM began tracking them as part of a new push to eliminate the logjam.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
A memo by a government watchdog group finds the General Services Administration's ethics program received high marks in a November 2010 study from the Office of Government Ethics. The report was issued shortly after GSA threw the lavish Las Vegas conference that has led to the firings of top officials and the resignation of Administrator Martha Johnson and a slew of congressional hearings.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
Congress has delayed the online financial disclosure requirement of the STOCK Act for a month. But already this provision that affects 28,000 senior members of the executive branch is deterring high-level feds from joining the ranks of senior executives, according to the Senior Executives Association.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
Senior Executives Association President Carol Bonosaro discusses how high-level federal employees are responding to the potential implementation of parts of the STOCK Act, requiring senior executives to disclose financial information online. And The Partnership for Public Service has some ideas on rolling out a smooth presidential transition.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
The Defense Department is expanding the removal of Social Security numbers from service member documents.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is making it easier for agencies to test the use of logical access control for applications.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
Both the Defense Department and animal right activists hope to reduce or end the use of 6,000 live animals a year for trauma surgery training.
August 06, 2012 -
![]()
Congress delayed implementing the STOCK Act, the insider-trading disclosure legislation, just as the ACLU was filing a lawsuit. Also, a not-for- profit reveals that the Office of Government Ethics did not raise flags about GSA ethics violations, despite findings of vulnerabilities and conflicts of interest.
August 06, 2012
