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When the first Pulsar came out at $500, no one knew it would be nearly free in a couple of years. Now we know better.
January 08, 2016 -
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Each year the Partnership for Public Services honors the best in career civil service. The Service to America Medals, or Sammies, provide a way for agency leadership to recognize people who might be working in obscurity but are nevertheless having a big impact. You've still got a week to nominate someone. And, as Jim Seymour, director of programs and events at the Partnership tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, 2016 is a red-letter year.
January 08, 2016 -
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The Small Business Administration has some tight deadlines to fix at least 30 IT security issues. They come from the House Small Business Committee, which took issue with a recent Government Accountability Office report on a series of management challenges at SBA. Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko fills in all the details for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 08, 2016 -
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Innovation can be hard to define, especially in something as stodgy as the federal government. But you know it when you see it. A study sponsored by the IBM Center for the Business of Government found lots of obstacles to innovation in federal agencies, but also lots of successes. Greg Dawson is senior faculty associate in the school for public affairs at Arizona State University and Jim Denford heads the management and economics department at the Royal Military College of Canada. They did the research and authored the report. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked them to define innovation. Dawson speaks first.
January 08, 2016 -
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When President Barack Obama signed the omnibus appropriations bill just before Christmas, he enacted a big boost in dollars going to several science agencies. The increase was even more than the Obama administration had asked for. For analysis of federal 2016 R & D spending, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Matt Hourihan, director of the R&D Budget and Policy program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
January 08, 2016 -
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The cuts will happen between now and early April, according to an announcement the Air Force released on Wednesday. They’ll involve 48 separate installations, but they’re not likely to lead to the firings of many individual workers.
January 08, 2016 -
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Do emerging nuclear powers have the systems, know-how, resources and political stability to safeguard these weapons over the long term?
January 08, 2016 -
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Federal contractors got a sort of present for the new year — four new clauses in the Federal Acquisition Regulation to deal with in 2016. They were published in final form early in December. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of the law firm Petrillo and Powell joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin discuss them and how they'll affect government buying.
January 07, 2016 -
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In the aftermath of the botched transition of a childcare subsidy program for military families, the Army and the General Services Administration say they’ve now cleared a backlog of thousands of overdue payments to soldiers. But as Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, it will take several more months to get the fee assistance program on even footing.
January 07, 2016 -
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Cloud, cybersecurity and agile development —those are what federal chief information officers and their staffs will be dealing with in 2016. But all three fronts are changing. The Professional Services Council recently completed research interviews on the 2016 federal IT trends. Heading the effort was Kim Pack, the vice president of business capture specialists Wolf Den Associates. She told Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the whole forecast is put together.
January 07, 2016 -
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The Office of Special Counsel unexpectedly withdrew a proposed rule that would've expanded the whistleblower rights of federal contractors. But one expert said that’s not necessarily a bad thing. David Colapinto, general counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center and a partner with the law firm of Cohen, Cohen Colapinto, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about why OSC’s proposed rule missed the mark and what Congress needs to do to fix federal contractor whistleblower protections. Miller shares the story on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 07, 2016 -
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The Pentagon is set to review more than 1100 medals issued since the 9/11 terror attacks for possible upgrade to the Medal of Honor.
January 07, 2016 -
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Fast-selling drones exemplify not so much new technology as the combination of existing products in such a way as to make new markets.
January 07, 2016 -
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The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms will hire hundreds of new investigators and officers to enforce a series of executive actions the White House thinks will prevent gun violence. President Barack Obama called for more people and a better background check system. Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin several agencies will play a part in implementing the President's executive guidance.
January 06, 2016
