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The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards honor many of the individuals and businesses in the region's government contracting sector. The awards, sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council, celebrate high achieving individuals and companies for their performance and contribution to the Government Contracting industry. Between now and Nov. 5, Federal News Radio is interviewing the finalists for this year's GovCon Awards. Mark Chichester is the president of Atlas Research. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on his nomination.
Agency senior leaders are finally giving cybersecurity the attention it deserves. Federal chief information officers say after a decade of warnings about the threats and risks to their data and networks, the OPM data breach brought home just exactly why cybersecurity is important. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details of our exclusive new survey of federal CIOs, and why the OPM data breach was a cyber awakening for so many.
The Defense Department has tried to reform its acquisition process for decades. DoD wants to address persistent cost and schedule growth that hit most major programs. Although countless reforms have been proposed and implemented, waste, fraud and abuse continue. Bill Lucyshyn is the interim director of the University of Maryland's Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. He's also one of the authors of a comprehensive new study of acquisition reform. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
Morale and engagement among managers and members of the Senior Executive Service are at a five-year low, according to the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. And more than half of federal employees at GS-14 and 15 tell Federal News Radio, they're not interested in joining the SES if they had the chance. But that's not the case for many rising leaders at the African-American Federal Executive Association's SES training workshop. Case in point: Shireen Dodson, the first full-time ombudsman at the State Department and a member of the SES. She tells Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko there's still plenty of interest in joining the SES.
You've heard of USA Jobs, the federal hiring portal. Now, there's USA Hire. It's the latest part of the Office of Personnel Management's strategy to streamline the hiring process and get agencies the best candidates. Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko tells the Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about USA Hire.
The Federal Communications Commission hit a major snag last week during an IT systems upgrade. It could have blown up into another failed federal tech project. But the FCC turned it around. In his weekly feature, "Inside the Reporter’s Notebook," Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about how the agency did it.
A major element of the Defense Department’s new program to better detect insider threats will be up and running by next month. The Department of Defense is launching the DoD Insider Threat Management Analysis Center. It's known as the DITMAC. Federal News Radio DoD reporter Jared Serbu tells Francis Rose what the DIT-MAC will do and how it will do it.
Rick Holgate has been the chief information officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Justice Department for the past six years. His service at ATF is over though. Rick joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to review his tenure at ATF and talk about his future.
The story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's rescue in the hills of Afghanistan is one of the most famous moments of the recent war. Luttrell's teammates died in a battle that started after they refused to kill three goat herders. Now, in addition to a book and a movie, there is a painting to commemorate the battle. Emily Kopp is at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference with the artist, Maj. Warren Neary and someone who knows the subject of this painting well, Lt. Col. Jeff "Spanky" Peterson.
The White House is finalizing plans for its new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. The center will connect the cyber dots for civilian, DoD and intelligence community agencies. In the latest edition of his weekly feature, Inside the Reporter’s Notebook, Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller writes about the launch of this new center.
Political pundits are betting Congress will pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded past the end of this month. Most agencies would prefer that lawmakers pass a real budget. Not the Internal Revenue Service though. Commissioner John Koskinen explains why his agency is better off without a standard budget bill.
A new excitement surrounding aerospace is one top outcome the Air Force Association wants from this year's 2015 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition. Retired Maj. Gen. Mark Barrett is executive vice president of the Air Force Association. Barrett says the theme this year's conference is "reinventing the aerospace nation."
The Office of Special Counsel is just the latest federal agency to suffer from the problem of case backlogs. In its latest report to Congress, OSC showed it had nearly 2,000 backlogged "matters" from fiscal 2014. OSC says it expects 6,000 new cases to come in during 2015.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's email problems are one in a string of examples of senior officials not following the rules governing records. Clinton's problems give managers a good chance to review email policies with their staffs.