Federal News Countdown 
Top News
- Senators push Tangherlini for assurances GSA is improving
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses
- Furlough song: Laugh or you'll cry
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
- 29-year-old NASA engineer going where no one has gone before
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
Fridays, 3:00 p.m.
Hosted by Francis Rose, each week experts in the federal community discuss the three news stories they think are most important in the world of government.
Federal News Countdown: IT managers added to job series, IT reform
Norm Lorentz, Director for the Global Public Sector at Grant Thornton and Dan Chenok, Senior Fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government join Francis Rose for this week's Federal News Countdown
Countdown: Buyouts hit USDA, Chinese hackers strike
Jason Miller and Francis Rose go over this week's top federal stories
Federal News Countdown: pension contributions, debt ceiling
Federal News Countdown: Fed pensions targeted, hiring reform
Agilex's Bob Otto and Federal Management Partners' John Salamone count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Countdown: Buy-outs, post-bin Laden attitudes toward feds
WFED's Jason Miller and the Performance Institute's Jon Desenberg count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Federal News Countdown: Debt, budget, FLOTUS flight
Jonathan Breul of the IBM Center for the Business of Government and Bill Bransford of Bransford, Shaw and Roth count down the top federal stories of the week.
Countdown: Spending cuts, cloud computing success
Agilex's Tim Hoechst and Allen Federal's Larry Allen count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Countdown: Budget impasse, shutdown worries
Telework Exchange's Cindy Auten and the Partnership for Public Service's John Palguta count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Countdown: Gov reorg, crackdown on improper payments
Host Francis Rose counts down the top federal news stories of the week with Dan Chenok of the IBM Center for the Business of Government and Bob Suda of Suda and Associates.
Countdown: Budget gridlock, public employees' union rights
Host Francis Rose counts down the top federal news stories of the week with Lena Trudeau of the National Academy of Public Administration and Al Burman of Jefferson Consulting.
Countdown: 2-week CR, potential shutdown consequences
Host Francis Rose counts down the top federal news stories of the week with Alan Balutis and Robert Burton.
Countdown: shutdown, fed union rights
Host Francis Rose counts down the top federal news stories of the week with John Kamensky of the IBM Center for the Business of Government and Robert Shea, formerly of the Office of Management and Budget.
Countdown: Boehner on fed jobs, IT spending cuts
Host Francis Rose counts down the top federal news stories of the week with Tim McManus of the Partnership for Public Service and Dan Mintz of Powertek.
Countdown: Budget battle, TSA union rights, SBA whistleblower retaliation
Countdown: State of the Union, government reorg, new DHS alert system
In Depth host Francis Rose counts down the top federal news stories of the week with Rich Cooper of Catalyst Partners and Jonathan Breul of the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
Countdown: Border patrol cuts contractor workforce, budget woes in Calif.
Counting down the top federal news stories of the week are Diversa Group's Derrick Dortch and Telework Exchange's Josh Sawislak.
Countdown: Issa's crackdown on waste, fake White House holiday e-card
Host Francis Rose counts down the week's top federal stories with Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners and Kim Peretti of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
