Workforce

  • No matter how nice you may couch the message, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, at the end of the day, when you\'re dumped, you\'re dumped.

    June 23, 2015
  • Washington is a city full of people with strong opinions, say Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. Some of the beliefs are genuinely held. Others are for rent.

    June 22, 2015
  • Federal News Radio speaks with Recreation News Editor Marvin Bond about interesting things to do in and near the nation's capital.

    June 20, 2015
  • Federal News Radio speaks with Recreation News Editor Marvin Bond about interesting things to do in and near the nation\'s capital.

    June 20, 2015
  • Dr. Andrea Morris, director of Urban Resilience, Arlington Economic Development, Arlington County Virginia, will explain what urban resilience is, and where the field is going in the future. June 19, 2015

    June 19, 2015
  • Jason Briefel, hosts a roundtable discussion of how federal conference and travel restrictions are affecting government, the industry and stakeholders. June 19, 2015

    June 19, 2015
  • Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) joins a growing number of lawmakers questioning the Office of Personnel Management\'s decision to hire Winvale and CSID to provide credit monitoring services. As Federal News Radio first reported, OPM\'s $21 million award to Winvale raises serious concerns among procurement experts. Now Warner and the American Federation of Government Employees want answers as feds are reporting customer service from the vendor is lacking. Federal News Radio\'s Executive Editor Jason Miller tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the contract, and why some procurement experts question it.

    June 19, 2015
  • President Barack Obama wants to spend his last 18 months in office turning government technology on its head. Obama says government\'s procurement systems are broken, but he believes organizations like the U.S. Digital Service can change the way people develop, buy and use new technology. Tom Shoop is editor-in-chief at Government Executive magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the likelihood of a major systemic change in the way government buys and implements new technology.

    June 19, 2015
  • Agencies now have 30 days to sprint to new cybersecurity standards after multiple data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. But some chief information security officers say they are more concerned about what impact a cyber attack will have on their organization\'s reputation than the data itself that\'s at risk. That\'s according to a new report from the RAND Corporation, \"The Defender\'s Dilemma: Charting a Course Toward Cybersecurity.\" Martin Libicki, a senior management scientist and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, is a co-author of the report. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what he heard from 18 CISOs about their cybersecurity operations.

    June 19, 2015
  • Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) joins in the questioning of how OPM made the decision to award a contract to Winvale for credit monitoring services. The senator and AFGE are hearing from current and former federal employees complaining about the services provided under the $20.7 million deal.

    June 19, 2015
  • On the latest episode of Studio Y, producer Michael O\'Connell talks to Steve Ressler, the founder of Young Government Leaders and Gov Loop, who organized the upcoming Next Generation of Government Training Summit.

    June 19, 2015
  • The Office of Personnel Management offers new clues about the current and former federal employees affected by one data breach, while staying mum on the scope of another breach, thought to be much larger.

    June 19, 2015
  • The Office of Management and Budget wants to create a cyber playbook, and a digital services teams focused on IT security. Tony Scott, the federal CIO, said industry also must play a bigger role by automatically enabling two-factor authentication and using more secure chips.

    June 19, 2015
  • As saying goes, ever dark cloud has a silver lining. That\'s true for the recent OPM cyber breach. You just have to look very, very, very hard to find it, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    June 19, 2015