Federal News Radio Archives
2010 and Beyond: Bureaucrat Bashing
Carol Bonasaro, the president of the Senior Executive Association, says the public unpopularity of federal employees created a trying year for federal managers.
Deficit plan aims to safely cut DoD spending
Carl Conetta, co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives, discusses the Sustainable Defense Task Force's report on how to cut defense spending.
TSP dips slightly in November, so far 'up' in December
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board's Tom Trabucco explains why there was a dip int he slight drop in November returns for your Thrift Savings Plan.
SBA set-aside program targets women-owned businesses
Warren Corbett, editor of the Set-Aside Alert, discusses the details of the proposed SBA rule.
Judicial branch lags in transparency
Princeton computer scientist Harlan Yu explains why the judicial branch is struggling to be more transparent.
2010 and Beyond: Homeland security
As part of the 2010 and Beyond series, Homeland Security Today Editor David Silverberg discusses why a series of FBI sting operations are on the top of his national security story list for the year.
WikiLeaks exposes national security sites
The BBC reports that the WikiLeaks cable reveal locations that are of national security interest.
Microsoft gets FISMA-certified
The added accreditation brings greater transparency security to the cloud, says the Microsoft blog.
WikiLeaks shows China behind Google hacking
The BBC reports that Chinese officials orchestrated the hacking at Google earlier this year, according to WikiLeaks cables.
Dorobek Must Reads - December 6
A daily list of the best stories of the day as compiled by the DorobekINSIDER team.
Survey: Performance reviews get poor ratings
Kerry Chou, senior practice leader at WorldatWork, and David Insler, senior vice president at Sibson Consulting, tell the DorobekINSIDER current performance reviews are not living up to their full potential.
Agencies watching GSA cloud award
WFED's Jason Miller discussed why the GSA award for cloud computing is garnering so much attention.
Stopgap bill keeps agencies funded for now
Politico's Rich Cohen gives details about the stopgap spending bill passed by Congress.
Analysis: Deficit Commission's lasting effects
While the recommendations from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform didn't pass, we may not have seen the end of them. Jason Fichtner, senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, joins us with more.
Smart phones coming to warfighters
The Army is developing technology for soldiers to use smart phones on the battlefield.
DoD worries Congress won't repeal DADT
The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon is worried that Congress won't repeal the ban on gays openly serving in the military.
Missing laptops equal $2B lost each year
A study by Poneman Institute estimates that $2 billion are lost each in lost laptops.
2010 and Beyond: Deficit is the issue of the year
On today's 2010 and Beyond segment, Jonathan Breul, executive director at the IBM Center for Government, tells us why he thinks the deficit is the biggest issue of the year.
USB drives pose cyber threats
Info Security reports that lost USB drives containing sensitive data are threatening cybersecurity.
Will Facebook kill email?
Many people have speculated that Facebook's new communications platform might mean bad things for email. Dave Worsell, director of government solutions at GovDelivery in the UK, says that's not the case.




