Tom Temin
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In Tuesday's Federal Headlines, OPM says it wants to measure the importance, adequacy and value of employee benefits. The goal is to make sure those benefits align with best practices and employee needs.
December 01, 2015 -
"I'm telling you right now, 10 years from now if the first person through a breach isn't a fricking robot, shame on us." -- Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work
November 30, 2015 -
In Monday's Federal Headlines, the FCC's new website is designed to provide better functionality, an improved design, and better searchability and navigability. The switch to the new site is scheduled to begin on Dec. 9 and be completed by midnight on Dec. 10.
November 30, 2015 -
The Army is evaluating five years of data to study suicide. The data is both affirming and in some cases disproving what the Army knows about its suicide-prone soldiers. Randy Lane is the division chief of the analytics assessment and systems division at the Army Resilience Directorate. Wendy Lasko is the program manager of the Army Suicide Prevention Program, and Kenneth Cox is the scientific liasion for the Army STARRS program. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, they tell Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko about the data points they collected. The first voice you hear is Lane's.
November 30, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget is telling federal agencies and the General Services Administration to draw up plans that would let them hire private sector help to respond to a cyber intrusion as quickly as possible. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, OMB says it’s clear that no civilian agency has the resources to clean up after a major cyber intrusion on its own.
November 30, 2015 -
Even for long-serving federal managers, moving from one federal department to another can produce some surprises. Systems, cultures, people might all be different. Just a few short weeks into her job as NASA chief information officer, Renee Wynn has a lot of work to do. Recently decamped from EPA, she compared the two agencies for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
November 30, 2015 -
She has nearly four decades of public service. Her speciality is human services, and she's worked at the county, state and federal levels. Now acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin is a new fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She told Federal Drive with Tom Temin what it means to be a NAPA fellow.
November 30, 2015 -
If the Internet of things is a technology megatrend, federal agencies should pay attention to it. So says the non-profit Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, or ATARC. It asked professors, contractors and federal IT managers about the Internet of things and boiled the answers down into five recommendations. Mike Hettinger of ATARC told Federal Drive with Tom Temin the group started out with a question.
November 30, 2015 -
In Friday's Federal Headlines, this year's Open Season is the busiest on record, according to the Office of Personnel Management. An OPM spokesman tells Federal News Radio the new self-plus-one option has generated enormous interest.
November 27, 2015 -
In Thursday's Federal Headlines, a We the People petition started earlier this month, asking the White House to grant feds the additional holiday, got just over 7,000 signatures, falling far short of the 100,000 needed just for the White House to respond.
November 26, 2015 -
The Defense Department says it’s funded at the minimum level it needs to handle threats around the world. However, defense experts say DoD isn’t spending its money in the right way. DoD report Scott Maucione tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the department is spending more and getting less. Read Scott's related story.
November 25, 2015 -
Back in March, the Navy said it would test a new IT acquisition process called the innovation cell. Its purpose: to evaluate, buy and insert new commercial technologies onto its networks within the space of one year. It appears to have worked. The Navy made its first awards under the Innovation Cell framework yesterday. Victor Gavin is the Navy's program executive officer for enterprise information systems, and Dan DelGrosso is the PEO-EIS technical director. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, they talked with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu about the awards, and what the Navy has learned from the process so far. Gavin speaks first.
November 25, 2015 -
Congress is tied up in knots debating the Syrian refugee questions and other things like cybersecurity. With a fast-approaching deadline for funding the government, Dec. 11, to be exact, the question is whether Congress will finish its budget work on time. Federal Drive host Tom Temin asked CQ Roll Call senior editor David Hawkings if other matters were crowding out the crucial budget.
November 25, 2015 -
Federal executives talk a lot about the importance of human capital. The workforce, that is. But not enough of them engage in meaningful workforce planning. That's according to former Homeland Security HR-chief Jeff Neal, now with IFC International. Neal told Federal Drive with Tom Temin that's changing.
November 25, 2015 -
The Defense Department has told Congress that DoD's health IT systems are interoperable with those of Veterans Affairs. Meanwhile, DoD is working to make sure the commercial health record system it just agreed to buy can marry up with the integrated systems DoD and VA have been building for the past several years. Chris Miller, DoD’s program executive officer for health care management, talked about that challenge on Federal Drive with Tom Temin with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu as part of the latest edition of On DoD.
November 25, 2015