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Federal Drive
Bloomberg offers five trends affecting contracts next year. Federal Drive host Tom Temin offers some basic strategies for dealing with them.
September 30, 2015-
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The results of the 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey are out, and federal agencies made some progress in boosting employee engagement this year. But not by much. Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko told In Depth host Francis Rose more about this year's results.
September 29, 2015 -
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National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers says he’s preparing for a reorganization. Rogers told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee he’s expecting recommendations on his desk by Oct. 1. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione has more on what might be in store for the NSA.
September 29, 2015 -
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Fiscal year 2016 will be the seventh straight year of a constrained federal contracting market. Contractors will face fewer opportunities and fiercer competition. Industry will have to adapt as government buyers revamp their acquisition strategies. That's all according to Bloomberg Government, which has identified five key trends that will define government contracting in the upcoming fiscal year. Brian Friel, senior contracts analyst at Bloomberg, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 29, 2015 -
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Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen made some waves earlier this year when he said he’d like to see commercial companies construct and operate data centers on DoD property. The military would provide physical and cyber security, while the firms would bring the cost and scalability benefits of cloud technology. Now, the Army is ready to try out a version of that idea. Federal News Radio's DoD reporter Jared Serbu writes about this in the latest edition of Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook.
September 29, 2015 -
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A quiet little team deep in OSTP is blocking and tackling to make government more effective, one yard at a time.
September 28, 2015 -
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The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards honor many of the individuals and businesses among the region's government contractors. The awards, sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council, celebrate high achievers. Between now and Nov. 5, Federal News Radio is interviewing the finalists for this year’s awards. William Van Vleet is the founder and CEO of Haystax Technology, which is a finalist for this year's Contractor of the Year award, in the $75-to-$300 million in sales category.
September 28, 2015 -
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency says it wants to "succeed in the open" by being a voracious consumer of imagery gathered by private companies. And the agency wants to provide as much of its own analytical work as possible to the public at large. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu has more on how NGA says it’s leading the intelligence community’s drive for more transparency.
September 28, 2015 -
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The Boots-to-Business program has the goal of keeping service members on their feet once they leave the military. Jointly operated by the Defense Department and the Small Business Administration, Boots-to-Business has had a few changes. Barbara Carson, the acting associate administrator in the Office of Veteran Business Development at the SBA, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update.
September 28, 2015 -
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Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) says agencies are moving too slowly to take advantage of cloud computing. Hurd, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on IT Operations, held a recent hearing on the state of federal cloud computing. In his weekly feature Inside the Reporter's Notebook executive editor Jason Miller writes about how much progress agencies have made in implementing cloud computing.
September 28, 2015 -
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An invitation for you to comment on USASpending.gov is coming in the next week or so from the Treasury Department. It's looking for more feedback on how the site looks and functions, and whether the information itself is useful. It's just one the department's big projects as it helps agencies comply with the DATA Act. Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko has more.
September 28, 2015 -
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The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards honor many of the individuals and businesses among the region's government contractors. The awards, sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, celebrate high achievers. Between now and Nov. 5, Federal News Radio is interviewing the finalists for this year's awards. Mark Skinner is the Chief Strategy Officer for Xator Corporation, which is a finalist for this year's Contractor of the Year award in the $25-to-$75 million in sales category. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the nomination.
September 25, 2015 -
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A rather nasty advanced persistent threat group known as “Naikon” targets governments and commercial interests in South, Southeast Asia and the South China Sea. Now, a team of researchers from two companies, Threat Connect and The Defense Group, has analyzed five years of Naikon activity. They think they've identified the individual behind the malware. Rich Barger is chief intelligence officer at ThreatConnect. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin now with the highlights from Project CameraShy.
September 25, 2015 -
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When the military needs to send covert messages over its wireless networks, it cloaks the transmissions in virtual "noise" or chatter. This method hides secret communications effectively, but also consumes a lot of bandwidth, which limits message size and speed. Syed Ali Jafar is a research professor at the University of California Irvine. He's been working on a way to make military wireless networks larger, faster and able to accommodate more users, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research.
September 25, 2015
