Sammies
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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 -
Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, federal leaders and family members celebrated the achievements of 10 federal employees at the 2015 Sammies awards dinner organized by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
October 08, 2015 -
You believe you have the answer to a problem, but no one else believes you do. Many federal employees have been there over the years. Dr. Steven Rosenberg turned his belief into life-saving therapy that people call "a miracle" and last night he turned his belief into the Federal Employee of the Year Award at the Service to America Medals award ceremony. Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, talked to In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 08, 2015 -
The Partnership for Public Service announced this year’s list of winners for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.
October 07, 2015 -
It's not just tornadoes and floods that require a disaster relief and recovery plan. Seismologist, Lucy Jones, is science advisor for Risk Reduction at the US Geological Survey. She's turned her groundbreaking research on earthquakes into public action that will save lives and property. For her work, she's been named a finalist for this this year's Service to America medals. She tells the Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about her work and the Shake Out scenario she developed.
October 06, 2015 -
Robert Bunge, Michael Gerber and the Wireless Alerts Team developed the Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which has sent our over 15,000 warnings since it was implemented in 2012.
September 04, 2015 -
A real revolution is what Nobel Prize Laureate and fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology William Phillips calls the field of atomtronics. He applauded the work of NIST physicist Gretchen Campbell in that field. Campbell is a Service to America Medal finalist in the Call to Service category. She says the field of atomtronics is still sort of theoretical.
September 04, 2015 -
Susan Kelly introduced sweeping changes to the Defense Department's Transition Assistance Program, improving the transition of service members to civilian life.
September 02, 2015 -
The Partnership for Public Service recently named Constantine P. "Gus" Sarkos, head of the Federal Aviation Administration's Fire Safety Branch, a finalist for a Service to America Medal.
September 01, 2015 -
When it comes to fire safety aboard commercial aircraft, Constantine "Gus" Sarkos is the nation’s expert. As head of the FAA's Fire Safety Branch, Sarkos and his team have played a pivotal role improving cabin and cargo safety, leading to a dozen significant changes to U.S. and foreign aircraft during the past three decades. For his work, he's been named one of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. He tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp more about that work and the likelihood of an aircraft catching fire nowadays.
September 01, 2015 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is aimed at reducing power plant emissions and protecting those downwind of the facilities from the nitrogen and sulfur fumes they generate. Stephanie Hogan is the acting team leader for interstate transport of air pollution in the EPA's Office of General Counsel, and one of the people responsible for enforcing that rule. For her work, she was named one of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain more about her efforts, and the process for actually policing air pollution.
August 25, 2015 -
The nation's public transportation systems will be stronger when the next major storm hits. Adam Schildge is a senior program analyst at the Federal Transit Administration. He's in charge of a $3.6 billion competitive grant program. He developed a new methodology to help decide which public transportation projects might get hit in another storm in the future and which ones should get a resilience grant. He's a finalist for a Service to America medal in the Call to Service category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how he started his federal career.
August 20, 2015 -
More than 1,400 Syrian civilians were killed by their own government in 2012 during a nerve agent chemical attack. The United States and Syria negotiated a deal to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. But no country with a proper destruction facility would accept the task. That's where an interagency team led by Tim Blades and Paul Gilmour stepped in. Blades is the director of operations for the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center; Gilmour is the deputy director of ship operations for the U.S. Maritime Administration. For their work, they were named two of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. They joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to recap their dangerous work.
August 18, 2015 -
Labor Department called on Edward C. Hugler last year when the agency found out its private-sector financial services provider was about to go bankrupt.
August 14, 2015 -
Steven W. Zander leads the Air Force Community Partnership, which helps bases and local communities reach mutually beneficial agreements on services and facilities.
August 14, 2015