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A report on government cybersecurity found NASA had the worst cybersecurity of all 600 federal, state, and local government organizations they analyzed.
The Social Security Administration is updating its IT strategy so it can start taking advantage of the massive amounts of data it collects, and move toward data-driven decision-making.
A whole industry grew up locally known as the Beltway Bandits. But 21st century innovation has brought all sorts of new competition from outside the area. Venture capitalist Jonathan Aberman has studied this for a forthcoming report on regional development. He provides a preview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Government Accountability Office looked at 21 large cloud contracts across five cabinet level departments, and found only seven met all of the industry best practices for service level agreements. David Powner, GAO’s director for IT management issues, with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how GAO selected those best practices, and why agencies should be following them.
House members continue their oversight of how agencies implement recommendations from their inspectors general.
If this search tool OPM wants eventually takes off, you might as well go to a clearance hearing naked. You won't have much else to hide anyhow.
Dr. David Shulkin, the undersecretary for health at VA, says the agency needs better integration with private sector medical providers in order to "re-engineer" the way veterans access treatment.
Each year, the Defense Department awards grants to some of the top researchers and engineers, who are known as National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows. Melissa Flagg, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for research, and chemist Chad Mirkin of Northwestern University, a faculty fellow specializing in nanotechnology, talked about the program on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Public Service Recognition Week is a reminder that for every jerk there are thousands of quality people working hard for citizens. Tim McManus the vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what people can expect.
The Senate has passed bipartisan legislation to help federal agencies do a better job detecting and preventing fraud.
Mixing up cause and effect or finding effect when there's no cause, this way of thinking is particularly reckless for federal agencies.
David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, has spent some time digging into the Capitol Police Department's budget and found it's increased almost every year since 9/11 to $375 million this year. Hawkings tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the Capitol Police is among the biggest police agencies in America, but it has gotten relatively little oversight.
We're living longer and defined pensions funds are drying up, and the definitions of work and retirement are blurring. Benefits and retirement planning expert Tammy Flanagan talks about the impact of changing lifespans on federal retirement on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Office of Personnel Management is piloting a program capable of automatically searching social media and other public online information of anyone applying for a security clearance.