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Silicon Valley companies once kept their distance from stodgy Washington, with its perceived urge to tax, regulate, coddle unions and dole out favors. Now they cozy up to government.
OPM is fanning out across the country with new training sessions for the federal HR workforce. But Jeff Neal, senior vice president at ICF International, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin changes in the federal hiring process will have to involve a lot more than H.R. staff.
The Pentagon is taking a lowest price, technically acceptable approach to the $17 billion, multiple-award contract known as Encore 3. Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the IT Industry Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin contractors say that's the wrong approach.
An Obama administration executive order protects the rights of federal contractor employees to blab about their pay. Alicia Samolis, partner with the law firm Partridge, Snow and Hahn shares advice on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about avoiding workplace chaos.
The Office of Personnel Management says it has made great strides over the last year to shore up its cybersecurity. Almost a year after announcing it suffered a major breach
Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin his group is meeting with agency HR leaders on how to export pockets of hiring excellence and export them across the government.
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is the latest federal agency to establish a permanent presence in Silicon Valley. Agencies are feeling the need to be closer to the innovators in order to feed off their energy, get involved in partnerships and stay on top of the cutting edge of innovation.
Federal leaders in cybersecurity are finding themselves in the position of trying to guess what the next big thing is going to be and how to prepare for it.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) is asking Facebook to answer a lot of questions about its news approach. Such as, "Who is ultimately responsible for approving its content?"
The Federal Headlines is a daily compilation of the stories you hear discussed on the Federal Drive. The General Services Administration and the Commerce Department are teaming with the city of San Francisco to launch…
The Veterans Affairs Department has settled a retaliation complaint with a high-profile whistleblower through the Office of Special Counsel's mediation program.
It has started already, but the next wave of innovation in unmanned technology will bring autonomy. That is, vehicles won't require human operators with a joystick flying them remotely.
While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dallies with Donald Trump, some actual business is going on in Congress. In particular, two cybersecurity bills in the Senate, one from a Democrat and one from a Republican. David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
A big data palooza for the health care field has just kicked off here in Washington. For what to expect, Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Niall Brennan, chairman of the Health Data Palooza and chief data officer at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.