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For almost a decade, Congress has been hounding the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to integrate their electronic health records. Later this week, DoD will file paperwork saying it’s lived up to its side of the bargain - and that it now complies with national standards for sharing health IT data. Chris Miller is DoD’s program executive officer for healthcare management systems. He talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu about the steps the two departments have taken over the past two years to make their health data more interoperable.
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The locality pay area list will include two new locations in 2017, if the Federal Pay Agent finalizes the Federal Salary Council's new recommendations. The Council says it's looking at new information now to add Virginia Beach, Virginia and Burlington, Vermont to the list. As Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko reports, new data will help the Council make more decisions on local federal salaries.
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If you're a government contractor, you probably breathed a sigh of relief at the budget deal that pushed the debt limit off until March of 2017. Agencies pay invoices in the order they are received, and time flies. Wojciech Kornacki, an associate attorney focusing on government contract law for Centre Law Group, says stay prompt and accurate in your bookkeeping, and maybe even take a closer look at your contracts.
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The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act has really shaped the role of the department-level CIO in recent months. But what about the bureau or component CIOs? Van Hitch is a specialist leader at Deloitte Consulting and member of its Federal CIO Advisory Council. Writing for Federal Times, he laid out three critical aspects that define their new roles under FITARA.
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The Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments are pursuing their own versions of electronic health records. Private sector practitioners below the level of national insurance providers struggle to realize the benefits long touted by the Obama administration. For a look at the current situation and a prognosis, the Federal Drive turns to Gail Wilensky, a senior economics and senior fellow at Project Hope, the international health foundation.
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It's been around since the Civil War to protect the government from fraud. The False Claims Act has one of the strongest whistleblower protection provisions under federal law. Relators can receive up to 30 percent if the case is won. In fiscal 2014, the Department of Justice recovered a record sum of nearly $6 billion from false claims cases. Peter Hutt, a partner at the law firm Akin Gump, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
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The Senate is back to debating a cybersecurity information sharing bill. As the year winds down, some federal agencies are still mopping up from serious data breaches. It's been a year of progress on the cybersecurity front, but as the auditors like to say, there's a lot more to do. For a look ahead, Ari Schwartz joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Until joining the Venable law firm last month, he was the special assistant to the President and the White House senior director for cybersecurity.
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In Tuesday's Federal Headlines, the Office of Special Counsel helps an Air Force Reservist who took leave from his job as a U.S. Marshal to serve overseas.
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The FITARA implementation scorecard released last week by the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that shows agencies failing efforts to improve IT acquisition and operations — turned government watchers into upset parent's — asking their children why they are getting D's and F's. David Powner, director of information technology management issues at the Government Accountability Office, filled in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the gaps in learning and a study guide for agencies to improve their FITARA grade point average.
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Each sector of the economy must deal with its own particular cybersecurity challenges. And each has a federal agency counterpart. The Energy Department spends a lot of, well, energy examining and analyzing threats to the nation's sources of energy and the grid that delivers it. Much of that work falls under the purview of Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall, the deputy energy secretary.
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In the 19th century, locomotives chugging by scared horses and cattle. In the 20th century, sonic booms panicked picnics and rattled windows. Now, drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — are annoying just about everyone. And they're starting to be recognized as potential threats. Lockheed Martin Cyber Solutions is developing ways to counteract some of the threats from drones, says Michael Panczenko, Lockheed's director of engineering and technology.
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The number of contract awards coming under protest by unsuccessful bidders has been on the upswing over the last few years. But what some are calling a simple idea could turn the needle in the other direction. In his weekly feature, Inside the Reporter’s Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about why improving industry and agency communication could make procurements go more smoothly.
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The Army has developed a new scarf-like mask designed to protect against riot control agents. Currently users are forced to wear full general protective masks made of hard bulky materials. This one however would be as easy as putting on a surgical mask. Paul Gardner is a supervisory physiologist at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center's Research and Technology Directorate. He is also the chief of the Respiratory Protection Division that developed the mask. He explains how the idea for this project got started.
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Most of the time Federal News Radio is the one bringing information to you. But on Mondays, we like to switch it up. We've read your comments on our website and Facebook. And, as Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp and Jason Miller discuss, the stories you're talking about center on the fate of the IRS.
November 09, 2015
