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Tom Temin
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Scott Air Force Base in Illinois is home to a brand new building with 164,000 square feet devoted to cybersecurity. It's the Global Operations Command of the Defense Information Systems Agency. Col. Paul Craft, the commander, described the new center in an interview with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
September 01, 2016 -
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After a half-dozen years of deliberation and public comment, the White House Council on Environmental Quality issued final guidance last month on how federal agencies should treat greenhouse gas emissions, adding those considerations to a laundry list of other considerations they take into account whenever public land is concerned. Attorney Daron Threet, a partner at Holland and Knight, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu about the new guidance on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
September 01, 2016 -
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Excited about the 1.6 percent pay raise for 2017? Congratulations, federal employees. You're part of the 1 percent club!
September 01, 2016 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Commerce Department's Inspector General says the Patent and Trademark Office it wasting a lot of money on unsupported hours logged by employees.
September 01, 2016 -
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The United States Air Force Band, the premier Air Force musical organization, rehearses at its studio on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.
September 01, 2016 -
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New data from the Office of Personnel Management shows that 93 percent of the people hired through the Pathways program intend to stay in government, and the programs are responsible for 35,000 new hires since 2012. Tim McManus, the vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the new report. He says they show agencies are beginning to use the Pathways programs as they were originally intended.
August 31, 2016 -
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Strategic sourcing is the government's strategy for trying to buy commodities as a single entity. Industry, and especially small business and services contractors, have been wary of the initiative. Now the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council has issued a new rule for contracting officers and that's also got industry concerned. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what's going on.
August 31, 2016 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Federal Communications Commission says it will shutdown nearly a dozen of its regional office locations in January 2017.
August 31, 2016 -
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Of course people will like Metro Wi-Fi. Where we really want it is in the trains for the whole trip.
August 31, 2016 -
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For nearly 10 years, the Defense Information Systems Agency has been working to provide secure cloud computing to DoD agencies. DISA now helps agencies use commercial providers in a secure way.
August 30, 2016 -
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The DoD inspector general looked at 56 Army contracts awarded by five Army contracting shops to see whether the Army was consistent in evaluating past performance.
August 30, 2016 -
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As Labor Day approaches, children head back to school and Congress will return soon, too. Already, battles are shaping up over spending caps, sequestration and what to do now versus in a lame duck session. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a preview of a fall classic
August 30, 2016 -
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When trying to sell cars, Packard Motor used to say, ask the man who owns one. When it comes to the F-35 fifth generation fighter, the Air Force might want to say, ask the man or woman who flies one. That's what the Heritage Foundation did in creating comprehensive assessment of the new platform. JV Venable, senior research fellow for defense policy at Heritage, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about his findings.
August 30, 2016 -
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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has been funding research it hopes will have a big payoff not just for the intelligence community, but for the public as well.
August 30, 2016
