Federal Drive

  • The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently published proposed new standards for electronic health records to work together. The interoperability standards are open now for public comment. Steve Posnack, director of Standards and Technology in the coordinator's office, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.

    October 05, 2016
  • Google's phones look nifty, but they'll have a hard time at first getting into the government market.

    October 05, 2016
  • Association of the U.S. Army hosts its annual conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

    October 04, 2016
  • Maj. Gen. Joseph Harrington, the commander of U.S. Army Africa, talks to Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the Association of the U.S. Army conference about the U.S. Africa Command. The Defense Department's newest geographic command marks its 10th anniversary next year.

    October 04, 2016
  • Patrick Murphy, the Undersecretary of the Army, previously served as a congressman from Pennsylvania, and is an Army veteran. At the Association of the U.S. Army's conference, he tells Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about a topic he's devoted a significant amount of attention to since taking office this past January — the Army's Soldier for Life initiative.

    October 04, 2016
  • Lt. Gen. Stephen Lanza is the commander of the Army's I Corps, based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, but heavily engaged throughout the Pacific. He joined Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the Association of the U.S. Army conference with an update on some of I Corps' activities over the past year.

    October 04, 2016
  • The Army's Rapid Capabilities Office is barely a month old, but Army leaders already have a strong idea of what they want the new organization to pursue. Early priorities are electronic warfare, cyber, and position, navigation and timing. Maj. Gen. Walter Piatt, the office's deputy director for operations, joined Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin at this week's Association of the U.S. Army conference here in Washington with a preview of some of the work ahead.

    October 04, 2016
  • The acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for civilian personnel policy announces changes to how long anyone hired after November 2015 will have to work under the initial probationary period.

    October 04, 2016
  • Justin Johnson, senior policy analyst for defense budgeting policy at the Heritage Foundation, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the crucial partnership on military basics between the Defense Department and Congress is badly frayed, and the military will be the worse for it.

    October 03, 2016
  • The transactional data rule is something the General Services Administration has instituted to try and move away from the price reduction clause some day. But it's turning out to be a slow and expensive system to get up and running. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin he's wondering who's going to pay?

    October 03, 2016
  • The Project on Government Oversight took a deep dive into a fellowship program that doesn’t get too much attention and made recommendations to Congress about the program. Federal News Radio contacted individual members of Congress, the House Rules Committee and the Senate Ethics Committee. Some declined to comment, while others did not respond in time for the story. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione spoke with Lydia Dennett, an investigator at POGO, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what POGO found.

    October 03, 2016
  • The Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has a heavy and critical agenda. Donna Dodson, NCCOE's director, outlined the scope of the work on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    October 03, 2016
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, a bill in Congress aims to incorporate some of the private sector's best practices into how the government manages its federal programs.

    October 03, 2016
  • Lt. Gen. Gina Grosso says that the biggest challenge in the already complex problem of developing the Air Force's cyber workforce is the civilian portion. That's because the federal government isn't quite sure who is or isn't cyber personnel.

    October 03, 2016