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The General Services Administration is creating a new service to host its high-tech offerings. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin if the new organization is step up for those GSA functions, or will another layer of bureaucracy bog them down?
May 09, 2016 -
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How close is it for NASA to be able to launch people on a mission to Mars? Bill Hill, the Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters, tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin what role NASA's ground systems development and operations critical design review plays in embarking on moving toward a historic mission.
May 09, 2016 -
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Justice officials said former Marine Contracting Officer David Liu worked with two government contractors to exchange protected procurement information of competitors to rig the bidding process for a multimedia services Navy contract in Somalia.
May 09, 2016 -
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Until sometime in the 19th century, people could wander into the White House. An open street ran between it and the Treasury Department into the 20th century.
May 09, 2016 -
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Chad Sheridan, chief information officer at the Agriculture Department's Risk Management Agency, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how his agency made the switch to more agile software.
May 06, 2016 -
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One of the best investments a department or agency can make is a good, well-staffed inspector general office. But too often, political appointees get in the way of IG investigations. That's according to a study coming out of the Brookings Institution. John Hudak, senior fellow in governance studies at Brookings and a co-author of the study along with senior research assistant Grace Wallach. They talked about their work on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 06, 2016 -
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In this heated election season, the Government Accountability Office finds that some military absentee voting bugaboos persist, and the brass needs to do more about it. Brenda Farrell, GAO's director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues, shared her insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 06, 2016 -
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The U.S. Agency of International Development and the Government Accountability Office are teaming up to help strengthen what they call international accountability. Reginald Mitchell, USAID chief financial officer, and Janet St. Laurent, recently retired director of Defense Capabilities and Management at the GAO, join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share details.
May 05, 2016 -
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Tucked into the National Defense Authorization bill for 2017 were two provisions that would change contract protests and not in a way favorable industry. The Professional Services Council had asked House Armed Services Committee leaders to drop them. PSC Executive Vice President Alan Chvotkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what's in the bill.
May 05, 2016 -
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Funny thing about small business rules. If you say you're small, you normally have to be small. If you tell federal customers you'll do your own work yourself, you've got to do the work yourself. So why do so many contractors try to get around these basics? Joseph Petrillo, procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to describe a new case that proves the old rule.
May 05, 2016 -
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In Thursday's Federal Headlines, executive branch agencies hired 6,000 more veterans in fiscal 2015 than they did the year before. Nearly 32 percent of new hires to the federal workforce in 2015 were veterans.
May 05, 2016 -
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False stories harm the reputations of both the government and the contractor. Even whole programs.
May 04, 2016 -
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Just because it's Public Service Recognition Week, that doesn't mean federal managers' appreciation for their employees should stop on Friday. Mallory Barg Bulman, research director at the Partnership for Public Service, shares some ideas on how to keep the love going on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 04, 2016 -
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No contractor wants to hire felons to work on federal contracts. So, they use background checks as part of the hiring process. But that can get you into hot water too if the company policy ends up discriminating against people in legally protected categories. Kenneth Rosenberg, a partner at Fox Rothschild, sheds some light on this subject on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 04, 2016
