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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. Greg Baroni is the chairman and CEO of Attain, which is a finalist for this year's GovCon 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 his nomination.
September 24, 2015 -
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Encryption has been around almost as long as the ability to count. Yet it remains a difficult technology for CIOs to implement. Robert Bigman spent 30 years in the CIA, including 15 as its chief information security officer. Now he's an independent cyber security consultant and president of 2 B Secure. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some practical advice for approaching encryption.
September 24, 2015 -
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Defense Department components are under orders to set up their own hubs to monitor their employees for signs of insider threats and respond if necessary. The Defense Intelligence Agency is one of the first DoD organizations to get its hub up and running. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, DIA started by asking whether its insider threat program could actually offer anything new
September 24, 2015 -
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Agency inspectors general face a head-spinning rate of change in how they do their oversight work. That's from the Association of Government Accountants, which issued its third annual survey of federal IGs. Auditors said they're struggling to keep up with all the new requirements they face. David Zavada is the director of the IG survey for AGA, and a partner with Kearney & Company. He tells executive editor Jason Miller why IGs are struggling to keep up.
September 24, 2015 -
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The upcoming presidential transition could easily derail some agency-level federal customer experience improvement efforts. And that means customer experience professionals should start preparing for the change now. Rick Parrish is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, and has authored a guide with 14 tips to start prepping.
September 23, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget tells agencies to get their shutdown plans ready. Congress has less than a week now to come up with some sort of budget deal before the fiscal year ends. And there's still no immediate plan from congressional leadership to vote on a short-term, clean continuing resolution. As the deadline gets closer, agencies and contractors are thinking about the lessons they learned back in 2013 to help them prepare. Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko tells In Depth with Francis Rose why there's still some optimism that agencies won't have to implement those shutdown plans.
September 23, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is fighting gender bias in the military and department workplaces by approving "lean-in" group meetings before, during and after work hours. Lean In is a nonprofit started by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. The organization closes the leadership gap for women in the workplace by opening dialogue between colleagues. The groups are open to men and women. Lean In says it has more than 24,000 groups in 120 countries. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met with Sandberg and 12 female service members and DoD employees to talk about challenges women face in the workplace. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione discusses with participants how these Lean In groups are helping.
September 23, 2015 -
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When scandals over scheduling and poor health care reached a boiling point in 2014, Congress acted. One of its mandates in the Veterans Affairs reform bill was a top-to-bottom review of VA's organizational set-up and whether it was optimal for delivering health care consistently. That task fell to the non-profit Mitre Corporation. After it completed that work, Mitre convened a blue-ribbon commission to review its findings. Gail Wilensky was a co-chair of the commission. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, she describes the scope of the commission's work, and by extension, how deeply Mitre dove in the VA.
September 23, 2015 -
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The perps, if found guilty, should face the consequences. But should innocent employees, investors and customers also have to pay?
September 23, 2015 -
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“Shutdown” is too coarse a word for what happens during a funding lapse. The government acts more as a patchwork. For employees, the challenge is knowing who will also be on the job.
September 21, 2015 -
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The Pentagon has already signaled its intent to move its massive enterprise email service to a privately-operated, commercially-based cloud environment. This week, DoD officially kicked off the planning process for a procurement that will affect more than one and a half million users. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 18, 2015 -
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Latest declassification project lets you see most of what two Presidents held and read from the CIA. But too much is redacted, a half-century later.
September 17, 2015 -
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Congressional polarization and gridlock have been tough on federal agencies and their ability to function effectively. The Partnership for Public Service has tried to quantify this effect. Its findings, titled Government Disservice, come out later today. It highlights four areas where federal agencies have been hit hardest. John Palguta is the vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 17, 2015 -
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The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards honor many of the individuals and businesses in the region's government contracting sector. The awards, sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council, celebrate high achieving individuals and companies for their performance and contribution to the Government Contracting industry. Rahul Pandhi is the president of CollabraLink Technologies, and a finalist for this year's GovCon Contractor of the Year award in the $25 million in sales category. He told me the Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about his company's agile development services.
September 17, 2015
