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The Postal Service is planning to buy 180,000 new vehicles over the next three years. It wants those new trucks to have better safety equipment and fuel mileage than the current fleet. Mail-carriers driving the new trucks will need more room, with parcel business up 20 percent over the past five years. Steve Burns is chief executive officer at Workhorse Group, Inc. That\'s one of several companies bidding on the new Postal truck. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to elaborate on his company\'s design, which includes a drone to lighten the load.
April 23, 2015 -
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An employee with the Transportation Security Administration gets her job back after being fired for being pregnant. TSA ruled Amanda Kincannon\'s pregnancy made her \"unfit for duty\" and subsequently fired her. The decision was eventually overruled by TSA\'s internal review board, and she was recently reinstated. The incident was made public by the American Federation of Government Employees. Debra Roth, a partner at the law firm Shaw, Bransford and Roth, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer some more insight into this case. She said it\'s not exactly unheard of.
April 23, 2015 -
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Kim Hancher is calling it a career after 34 years in government, including the last seven as the CIO of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She said she wants to make sure the agency is on the right path with cloud and cyber before leaving later this spring.
April 23, 2015 -
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A review by federal cyber experts from DHS, ODNI and OPM raise the prospect that the initial estimate of 27,000 federal employees thought to have been impacted by the August 2014 cyber breach of security clearance contractor USIS is low. In light of that breach and others, OMB led a governmentwide review of contracts to ensure contractors are in compliance with laws and policies to protect government data on non-federal systems.
April 23, 2015 -
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Director Katherine Archuleta discusses the Office of Personnel Management\'s new Recruitment, Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion Roadmap on this week\'s Women of Washington radio show.
April 22, 2015 -
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Steve Bauer, executive director of the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund, joins host Mike Causey to give us an update on the two hundred children who were given college scholarships after losing at least one parent in the Oklahoma City bombing. April 22, 2015
April 22, 2015 -
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Twenty years ago this month, domestic terrorists set off a powerful car bomb outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey talks to one of the people who helped the families and victims of the 1995 tragedy.
April 22, 2015 -
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Listen to Federal News Radio Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola\'s interview series on workforce challenges and opportunities in the federal government. Fornicola was joined by Miranda Ashby, senior director of federal sales for Cornerstone OnDemand; Jennifer McDowell, transformation specialist for USDA\'s Forest Service; and Verron Brade, director of the Office of Human Capital Management for NASA\'s Goddard Space Flight Center.
April 21, 2015 -
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A new report to Congress shows 17 of the 24 largest agencies bought sustainable products at least 95 percent of the time.
April 21, 2015 -
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Following up on the success of its first continuing education program, the Office of Personnel Management on Monday announced its partnership with Champlain College, a 137-year-old private college based in Burlington, Vermont. Federal workers and their spouses will be able to enroll in degree or certificate programs before the start of the summer 2015 semester. The admission deadline is June 5.
April 21, 2015 -
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Republican leadership in Congress needs a makeover of the way it oversees the executive branch if it expects different results, says In Depth host Francis Rose.
April 21, 2015 -
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If you\'re a federal employee and you\'re contemplating a very public, very questionable act, for your own good, don\'t do it, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
April 20, 2015 -
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Evan Lesser, founder and director for ClearanceJobs.com, will discuss the challenges that agencies are facing in filling jobs that require a security clearance. April 17, 2015
April 17, 2015 -
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Janice Glover-Jones, the Defense Intelligence Agency\'s chief information officer, said she brought in a training expert from the CIA to help create courses to meet the agency\'s need for soft and technical skills.
April 17, 2015
