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Federal Drive Interviews -- Nov. 6, 2012

Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress says sequestration may not be such a bad thing. Buddy Bland talk about upgrades to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputer. Mark Russo of the FDA talks about food shortages caused by Hurricane Sandy.

Tags: Lawence Korb , Center for American Progress , Budd Bland , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Energy Department , Mark Russo , Incident Management Group , Federal Drive

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Federal Drive Interviews -- Nov. 1, 2012

Sean Patton of Lockheed Martin talks about the EPA's migration to a collaboration and communication service. Sanjay Koyani discusses a partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other Health and Human Services components to get better leverage out of the information it has. Engineer Norman R. Augustin talks about a new report on STEM prepared by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council.

Tags: Sean Patton , Lockheed Martin , EPA , cloud computing , email migration , technology , Sanjay Koyani , Center for Tobacco Products , Norman Augustine , National Academy of Engineering , National Research Council , STEM , Federal Drive

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Federal Drive Interviews -- Oct. 30, 2012

The Federal Drive gets post-superstorm Sandy updates from the National Weather Service and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Tags: Federal Drive , Coast Guard , NWS , Steven Cooper , Sandy , Jamie Frederick , Steven Musser , Debra Katz , Legal Loop , John Palguta , Partnership for Public Service

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Federal Drive interviews - Oct. 24

Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach of the Manhattan Institute's Project FDA explains how a legislative mandate does not come with the funding needed to implement it. And Acting Public Printer Davita-Vance Cooks lays out the five-year strategic plan as the Government Printing Offices faces a digital future.

Tags: Federal Drive , GPO , Davita Vance Cooks , Andrew Von Eschenbach , Kevin Bogardus , The Hill

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FDA checking high-risk medical apps for safety

Last year, the FDA proposed a policy to test apps that included "very high-risk interventions" that did not cause any unintended consequences. The agency is now expected to release final policy by the end of this year on which apps it will oversee.

Tags: Bakul Patel , Mike Honda , House , technology , mobile , health IT , Jolie Lee , Federal Drive

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Federal Drive interviews - Oct. 11, 2012

Bloomberg News shares why federal agencies are rejecting more FOIA requests. And the FDA gets into the mobile approval process.

Tags: Danielle Ivory , Bloomberg Government , Babuk Patel , Federal Drive

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Report: Federal whistleblowers don't sense letup in agency retaliation

Federal employees increasingly perceive less agency wrongdoing but that doesn't necessarily mean the threat of retaliation for reporting such misconduct has similarly decreased, according to a new Merit System Protection Board report.

Tags: MSPB , Susan Tsui Grundmann , whistleblower , EPA , OSC , best practices , Jack Moore

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Perakslis moves FDA toward IT innovation, efficiencies

The CIO said he's using an agile approach to keep large programs on track and looking to the cloud to improve the agency's business processes.
Jul 19, 2012(Encore presentation August 27, 2012)

Tags: technology , Eric Perakslis , IT modernization , cloud computing , virtualization , data center consolidation , agile development , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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GAO: Special hiring authority not a free pass

A Government Accountability Office report found the Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency need to do a better job managing their employees under Title 42.

Tags: GAO , EPA , HHS , NIH , CDC , Frances Collins , hiring , ethics , oversight , Esther Carey

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OSC warns agencies of email monitoring restrictions

The Office of Special Counsel is reminding agencies not to target email monitoring of employees that could have a chilling effect on whistleblowers who report waste, fraud and abuse.

Tags: OSC , OMB , whistleblower , email monitoring , technology , Federal Drive

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