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At 22, Jarrett Zubiate was managing a Verizon store, but he wanted more. Trained as a Navy hull technician, he stepped off the fleet to become a recruiter. Zubiate talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about being named the Navy's enlisted recruiter of the year.
Reports of counterfeit parts making it into sensitive Defense Department systems have steadily declined since agencies were required to make those reports in 2013. Marie Mak, director of acquisition and sourcing issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why.
If Presidents thought more like chief executive officers, then perhaps so many of the big management snafus wouldn't happen. That's the view of Bob Tobias, founder and development director of the Key Executive Leadership program at American University. He shared the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Republican leaders are sidelining a bill which calls for privatizing the nation's air traffic control system. Congressional leaders plan to instead pass a stopgap measure to fund the Federal Aviation Administration through March.
The federal government seems stuck in the second generation of online.
Mark Schwartz, chief information officer of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, said by moving legacy systems to the cloud, updates become more agile.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter lays out DoD's 2017 spending priorities to Congress. Speaking to the House Appropriations Committee, Carter stressed America’s leading role in worldwide security and the need to invest in people and new technologies.
Some members of Congress are concerned that DoD contracting officers aren’t holding large vendors accountable for meeting their small business subcontracting plans. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, new legislation would add teeth to existing rules by holding vendors in breach of contract when they don’t meet their small business commitments.
The FBI lost the personal information on 20,000 employees thanks to a cyber hack. For how this might have been prevented, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to Trevor Hawthorn, chief technology officer at Wombat Security Technologies.
A bipartisan pair of senators has gotten the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to approve a bill to reform administrative leave. Patricia Niehaus, national president of the Federal Managers Association, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what her organization likes about the legislation.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace at the National Institute for Standards and Technology is getting closer to possible solutions to identity theft and fraud. NSTIK Director Mike Garcia gives Federal Drive with Tom Temin an update on the program.
VA's processes for evaluating people are so messed up that leadership ends up living the legend that you can't do anything about federal employees no matter how badly they perform.
As both defensive and offensive platforms, unmanned aircraft have a lot more potential when working in groups known as swarms. It's something the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been working on. Kelley Sayler, associate fellow and defense analyst at the Center for a New American Security, offers insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
As one recent case makes clear, even the fastest networks don't guarantee your bid on a federal contract will get there on time. Attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.