On the Federal Drive show blog, you can listen to our interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day, as well as links to other stories...
This is the Federal Drive show blog. Here you can listen to our interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day, as well as links to other stories and resources we discuss.
Congress gets down to business today. It has a long list of issues to tackle — the federal budget, immigration reform, whether to endorse President Obama’s plan to bomb Syria. The Hill Newspaper’s managing editor, Bob Cusack, offers a preview.
A few thousand intelligence community employees are seeing what their future technology tools and infrastructure looks like. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently implemented a set of baseline capabilities under its Intelligence Community IT Enterprise program, or ICITE program. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller has details on the new technology tools and where ICITE is heading next.
Jason Olsen Founder and President Federal Employees with Disabilities
A group of federal employees with disabilities is hoping to make the government a model employer. FEDs, Federal Employees with Disabilities, began last year. It held its first training conference yesterday with FEDQ, a group representing gay and lesbian federal employees. Jason Olsen is the founder and president of Federal Employees with Disabilities.
Years after the White House took the option off the table, debate continues over using Nevada’s Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane testifies today at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing. Bloomberg Government reporter Brian Wingfield joined Tom and Emily.
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