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The Pentagon has spent more than half a century refining the ways it buys from small business. In recent years, the Defense Department has met its statutory goal of awarding 23 percent of its contracting dollars to small and disadvantaged concerns. But that emphasis has come at a cost and not necessarily in dollars. Bill Lucyshyn is former Research Director at DARPA and now director at the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on a just-completed study of the Pentagon and small business.
November 17, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is asking contractors to invest more of their revenues on research and development. Right now the industry average hovers at around 4 percent. Now DoD officials are calling on industry to shift its focus towards R & D and make it a higher priority. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin more. Read Scott's related story.
November 17, 2015 -
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Don't casually plunge into shared services. Treat it like a major project and make your approach as carefully as you would a major acquisition, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
November 17, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget must feel like Hercules fighting the nine-headed dragon. Cut off one head, and two grow in its place. That's how it's been with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. Auditors from the Government Accountability Office say the number of federal data centers has actually been growing throughout the six-year initiative. Now it stands at more than 11,000, up from from 9,000 at the end of 2014. Tony Scott is the federal chief information officer at OMB. He tells Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller, in an exclusive interview, about OMB’s latest data center plans.
November 16, 2015 -
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Military medicine has undergone a quiet revolution in the past 20 years. Survival rates from battle wounds have reached historic highs. Badly injured soldiers have the potential to return to productive civilian life. Retired Vice Adm. Michael Cowan is the 34th Surgeon General of the Navy, and executive director of a federal medical society known as AMSUS. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the holistic approach to military medicine that's made these advances possible.
November 16, 2015 -
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The Pentagon didn’t get everything it wanted out of the two-year spending deal the White House and lawmakers reached a couple weeks back. But for now, Defense budget officials are pretty pleased that they at least know what they’ll be allowed to spend for the next two years. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu has more.
November 16, 2015 -
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In Monday's Federal Headlines, federal employees say closing the federal government on Nov. 27 would help improve morale. The petition needs 100,000 signatures by Dec. 6 for the White House to consider it.
November 16, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget must feel like Hercules fighting the nine-headed hydra. Cut off one head, and two grow in its place. That's how it's been with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. Auditors from the Government Accountability Office said the number of federal data centers has actually been growing throughout the six-year initiative. Now it stands at more than 11,000, up from from 9,00 at the end of 2014. Tony Scott, federal chief information officer at OMB, told Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller, in an exclusive interview about OMB’s latest data center plans. He shares that interview with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
November 16, 2015 -
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Nomination as a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration is a sign you've made a difference to federal management and good governance. One recent inductee is Anita Blair, the chief human capital officer at the Treasury Department. She describes NAPA for Federal Drive with Tom Temin and why she's glad to be among its fellows.
November 16, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management’s cybersecurity upgrades to the Employee Express portal are leaving many federal employees frustrated and confused. They're wondering about the lack of communication from OPM about its plans to fix the problems as Open Season gets underway. In his weekly feature, Inside the Reporter’s Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about the breakdowns during a critical time of the year. He fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin with all the details. Read Jason's latest Reporter's Notebook.
November 16, 2015 -
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One Homeland Security agency has more vehicles than officers to drive them. That's one finding from the DHS Inspector General. The IG finds the Federal Protective Service simply doesn't manage its fleet very well. Mark Bell is the Assistant Inspector General for Audits at DHS. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Bell starts by describing the vehicle picture for the entire department.
November 13, 2015 -
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Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. He tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu accountability measures are one element of what the Navy’s doing to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
November 13, 2015 -
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Warfare is constantly evolving. From cavalry horses to B-2's, the military competes in a cycle of innovations, countermeasures, and counter-counter-measures to get the leg-up on their enemies. But what happens when the battlefield shifts to cyberspace and changes the whole game? Joining the Federal Drive with Tom Temin via Skype to talk about some of the factors that could shape the future of warfare is Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
November 13, 2015 -
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The Chief Information Officer’s Council, FirstNet and the Next Generation 911 services say they're on the same page when it comes to verifying and authenticating identities. This is due in part to the Information Sharing Environment’s work around standards and its support of pilot projects. Kshemendra Paul is the program manager of the Information Sharing Environment. In part two of his exclusive interview with executive editor Jason Miller, Paul describes how the ISE’s work “under the covers” is bringing this identity roadmap together.
November 13, 2015
