Tom Temin

• Memo to FBI: Build it right

  FBI Director Jim Comey should drive out to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency campus on the outskirts of Fort Belvoir.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  February 01, 2016
• Future Army Commission report misses mark, experts say

  Defense analysts think the National Commission on the Future of the Army could have been bolder in its recommendations.

  Defense

  January 29, 2016
• Bob Tobias: Is lack of management training causing federal employee engagement to drop?

  Everybody wants accountability from someone else. Congress wants it from federal agencies. Federal managers wants it from employees and vice versa. The public wants it from everybody. But demanding accountability means you've got to equip people with the skills they need to do the job. Could it be a lack of management training is causing federal employee engagement scores to fall for the last five years? Bob Tobias, professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University, has some ideas, which he shares with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

  Federal Drive

  January 29, 2016
• Richard Carmona: Medical lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan in danger of evaporating

  If you can say anything good about battlefield wounds, it's this: They have often produced advances in emergency medical treatment that benefit not only troops but anyone who receives a similar injury. But only if the treatment experience is captured and taught. Fourteen years of hard-won learning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in danger of evaporating. That's according to former Surgeon General Richard Carmona. In this interview with Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Carmona explains why he thinks this is such an important issue.

  Federal Drive

  January 29, 2016
• Mark Bell: DHS let unscreened Ebola carriers into U.S.

  When responding to a dangerous disease, speed is important. And when Ebola headed toward U.S. shores in 2014, the Homeland Security Department mobilized quickly. But DHS also had training and coordination issues that may have resulted in unscreened Ebola carriers getting into the United States. That's according to the DHS inspector general. Mark Bell, the assistant inspector general for audits at DHS, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share more

  Federal Drive

  January 29, 2016
• Friday federal headlines – January 29, 2016

  A retired Air Force Master Sergeant has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to disclosing confidential procurement information and filing a false tax return.

  Federal Newscast

  January 29, 2016
• Panel recommends capping active Army force

  The National Commission on the Future of the Army suggested keeping the active duty Army size minimum at 450,000 and increasing multi-component integration.

  Army

  January 29, 2016
• Michael Lumb: How has FITARA progressed?

  When the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act became law last year, it wasn't just about how to by computers and software. The law is really aimed at getting more collaboration and rationality into how the government spends more than $80 billions a year. Accenture and the Association of Government Accountants talked to federal CIOs and CFOs to gauge how it's going. Michael Lumb, Accenture managing director for federal services and financial solutions, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the survey.

  Federal Drive

  January 28, 2016
• National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence: excellent

  The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has had what you might call an excellent year. It's managed to publish a slew of cybersecurity practice guides, working with industry. Donna Dodson, associate director of the information technology lab and chief cybersecurity adviser at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a review.

  Federal Drive

  January 28, 2016
• Joe Petrillo: GAO upholds protests to doomed acquisition

  As the saying goes, good procurements start with good requirements. If that's the case, then the acquisition you're about to hear about was doomed from the start. Not surprisingly, the Government Accountability Office upheld the protests against it. Attorney Joseph Petrillo of the law firm Petrillo and Powell joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details and lessons learned.

  Federal Drive

  January 28, 2016
• Thursday federal headlines – January 28, 2016

  The Department of Justice rules on one of the biggest cases of disability fraud in the Veterans Affairs Department's history.

  Federal Newscast

  January 28, 2016
• 5 new procurement principles to drive VA’s future

  Greg Giddens, the director of the Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction at the Veterans Affairs Department, is pushing five main acquisition principles that he says will put the VA in the right direction.

  Acquisition

  January 27, 2016
• Readers respond to Mabus’ gender-neutral title mandate

  'Midshippie' does have a hip sort of ring, can be spoken or sung, and it would sound perfect if shouted out by a drill instructor at a cadet (cadette?).

  Tom Temin Commentary

  January 27, 2016
• Anne Altman celebrates 34 years at IBM

  Anne Altman celebrates 34 years at IBM with Jan. 26 retirement party at the Metropolitan Club.

  People

  January 27, 2016