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- OMB reworking financial systems to focus on outcomes, not inputs
- OMB taps VanRoekel to lead management team
- Lew taps government retiree pension fund to avoid default
- PHOTOS: Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal Finalists
- Hagel: Accountability breakdown was leading factor in sexual assaults
- Former IRS commissioner faces questions about Tea Party
- SBA starting new lending program for veterans
- New Apple devices cleared to join DoD IT networks
- Army prioritizes access to data in fight over intelligence IT system
- DoD upends slow approval process for mobile devices
- Senior execs' bonuses under fire at agencies
- Gould moves the needle on many of VA's toughest challenges
- Tuesday federal headlines - May 21, 2013
Panetta: Al-Qaida weaker since 9/11
Panetta says the attacks a decade ago have in some ways strengthened the United States at home and abroad.
Air Force awards sensor-surveying contract
The Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation a $50 million contract to evaluate the service's inventory of sensors. The Atlanta company will survey the sensor market and test how well different devices work and will also look at new ways for the military to use sensors.
HP lands $500M Air Force contract
The contract is for HP to provide work stations, processors and other products.
DoD deploys dual commanders to help with hurricane efforts
For the first time this weekend, dual-commanders were deployed for a natural disaster, the Defense Department announced.
A get-tough approach helpful in disciplining errant contractors?
Todd Canni, the Air Force Associate General Counsel, joined the Federal Drive to discuss a recent article he wrote dealing with contractor suspensions and debarments.
Budget survival tips: Prioritization, revision
Agencies must sharpen their pencils to figure out what they can afford in 2012 and beyond. The Labor Department is asking program offices to rethink and redo budget proposals and plans. The Air Force will need to take more surgical cuts to find savings.
DoD strategic plan to detail billions in cuts
The Pentagon will issue a strategic management plan by the end of August highlighting the services and agencies' plans and milestones to cut costs from back-office functions. DoD Deputy Chief Management Officer Beth McGrath said there are seven main areas DoD will review, including IT infrastructure, acquisition and the workforce. McGrath already is conducting reviews of the first set of efficiency initiatives that began this year.
Buyouts: To Be Or Not To Be?
Thanks to the pay freeze and an increasingly hostile Congress, many federal and postal workers said they'd retire in a heartbeat if Uncle Sam would make them an offer, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey reports. So what are the odds...
Monday morning federal headlines - August 15
On today's Federal Drive: Buyouts at the Air Force and the Government Accountability Office, new screening methods for traumatic brain injuries and a streamlining effort at NASA.
Air Force announces hiring freeze, buyouts
The Air Force announced a 90-day hiring freeze for civilian positions, and will also offer early retirement and voluntary separation.
Lockheed wins $84M Air Force contract
The defense contractor will supply the service with four weapons systems trainers.
Air Force simulators only go so far to prep pilots
Air Force Captain Travis Passey says you can't simulate the environment of flying with the Gs and some of the stresses that you have on your body, the heat, things like that.
Lockheed snares $84 million Air Force deal
Lockheed Martin was awarded an $84 million deal with the Air Force to supply the service with four weapons systems trainers, This story is part of Federal News Radio's daily DoD Report.
Making the transition to Washington
Diane Cochran has worked in the Departments of the Navy, Air Force, Energy, and the Office of Personnel Management, at a variety of locations in the continental United States and abroad. She shares what it's like to make the transition to working and living in D.C.
Air Force Col. Jay Davis joins General Dynamics
Davis has been named the company's director of NORAD and Northern Command programs.
Can Air Force afford stealth bomber?
Former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how efforts to cut DoD spending will affect Air Force weapons programs, including its new bomber program.
Exclusive: Agencies detail buyout, hiring freeze plans
In a governmentwide survey, agencies reported that they were not seeking buyouts through OPM or hiring freezes
Air Force Wants to Reduce Airlifter Use
The Air Force has requested that Congress reduce the amount of airlifters it is required to use. Gen. Duncan McNabb, who heads the U.S. Transportation Command said doing so could save $1.2 billion over five years.
DoD trying to take cost out of operations
Beth McGrath, DoD's deputy chief management officer, said reworking acquisition regulations will include new ways to buy technology and promote agile development. The Pentagon is targeting everything from the way it buys technology to standardizing business systems in an effort to save money and become more efficient. DoD wants to standardize 15 common, commercial business processes.
