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The National Archives is working on project trying to make the multimedia records of World War I more accessible to modern audiences. They've contracted Shiftdesign to create a new app called "Remembering WWI," to help educators and history buffs make the war a little less forgettable. Jon Voss, strategic partnership director for Historypin, which is part of Shiftdesign, tells Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the project, and how NARA is helping.
Whether 39 years is young or old depends on which direction you're looking from. But those 39 and under make up less than half the federal workforce. The younger they are, the higher their sense of engagement with their jobs and agencies. For more on the latest trends in the federal workforce, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Robert Goldenkoff, director of strategic issues at the Government Accountability Office.
A legitimate complaint against government wrongdoing, or merely a nuisance? In this case, the Government Accountability Office says it was clearly the latter. GAO barred a company called Latvian Connection from filing bid protests. That was after the company filed 150 of them in the same year. Federal contracting specialist Steve Koprince, managing partner of Koprince Law, about the highly unusual case on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The crucial partnership on military basics between the Defense Department and Congress is badly frayed, and the military will be the worse for it.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Defense Business Board has career advice for Pentagon career officials concerning the upcoming presidential transition.
If 800-160 establishes, or re-establishes anything, it's that security is an engineering discipline.
The Obama administration's cancer moonshot has brought three agencies together. They're collaborating on a specific and highly promising approach to the treatment of lung cancer called the Applied Proteo-genomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes consortium, which involves the National Cancer Institute and the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments. Dr. Henry Rodriguez, director of Proteo-genomics Research, and Dr. Warren Kibbe, director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at NCI, join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what the Institute is bringing to the consortium.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Postal Service's Inspector General conducted a survey to see how the American public feels about drones potentially delivering mail and packages.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence develops guidance and best practices on broad cybersecurity concepts that can be applied across multiple business environments.
As the noisy election campaign rumbles on, Capitol Hill Republicans and Democrats are eyeing one another in preparation for that lame duck session. David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, is a student of the lame duck. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how this years version is likely to play out.
Flint, Michigan showed what can happen with water systems in a worst case. Local and state officials asked, where was the EPA? Katie Butler, director of water evaluations at the EPA's Office of Inspector General, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some answers.
Planning can't change the weather, but it can improve the time between disaster striking and people getting their lives back together.
Nora Bensahel, distinguished scholar in residence at American University, and retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, a distinguished practitioner there, are co-authors of The Future of the Army, published by the Atlantic Council. They walked Federal Drive with Tom Temin through some of the budget challenges the Army currently faces.
Congress only gave agencies funding until Dec. 9 when it passed a continuing resolution last month. It funded itself for all of 2017. Yet some executive branch accounts also got full-year funding, something contractors need to know about. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.