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Even though we've lived through a city-flattening blizzard, the advent of a bear market and umpteen presidential debates on TV, the year is still young. You still have time to do some careful planning on the financial front. Joining Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some predictions for what Congress will do to and about the federal workforce this year is Jessica Klement, legislative director of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.
February 01, 2016 -
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A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that those injured before 2007 during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are most at risk for chronic problems from traumatic brain injury.
February 01, 2016 -
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Consolidation and new company formation has become a steady drumbeat in the federal market. In the latest megadeal, Leidos is taking on the Information Systems and Global Solutions division from Lockheed. What does it mean for the market and for federal customers? For analysis, Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Arun Sankaran, managing director of market research company Govini.
February 01, 2016 -
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is pushing back against a critical report on his agency’s cybersecurity efforts.
February 01, 2016 -
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FBI Director Jim Comey should drive out to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency campus on the outskirts of Fort Belvoir.
February 01, 2016 -
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Defense analysts think the National Commission on the Future of the Army could have been bolder in its recommendations.
January 29, 2016 -
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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.
January 29, 2016 -
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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.
January 29, 2016 -
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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
January 29, 2016 -
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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.
January 29, 2016 -
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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.
January 29, 2016 -
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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.
January 28, 2016 -
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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.
January 28, 2016 -
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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.
January 28, 2016
