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Friday Morning Federal Newscast - July 16th

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Air Force streamlines cybersecurity hiring

Panel advocates need for cloud computing data security standard

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , USAF , Air Force , hiring authority , pay and benefits

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State to turn to contractors when DoD goes

If outsourcing is the answer, what should be the question? We hear from Commissioner Grant Green of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tags: contracting , Commission on Wartime Contracting , Defense , State , DoD , Grant Green

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President surprises high level cyber meeting

Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge winners announced, Northrop takes home the Hoyt Vandenberg Award

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Alan Paller , SANS Institute , Northrop Grumman , CyberPatriot , contracting , technology

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DoD contracting is on a transparency tightrope

Buyers in the Defense Department who bundle small contracts into larger ones will have to post their actions on the Web. Bundling is the subject of a new interim rule. Roger Waldron, Counsel at the law firm Mayer Brown, explains.

Tags: contracting , contract bundling , small business , Roger Waldron , Mayer Brown LLP , Federal Acquisition Regulation , Suzanne Kubota , transparency , FAR

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White House cyber meeting refines agenda

President Barack Obama and several of the administration's top cybersecurity officials met with key members of the private sector at the White House Wednesday to review progress in national cybersecurity activity in the past year. Alan Paller brings us up to speed.

Tags: cybersecurity , Alan Paller , SANS Institute , Suzanne Kubota

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Thursday Morning Federal Newscast - July 15th

House approves Telework Bill, Markup begins of spending bills in the Senate, Pentagon prepares funding contingencies

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How Defense feds prepare for deployment

The CEW is a workforce of Department of Defense civilians trained and equipped to deploy oversees in support of worldwide military missions. We learn more about it from Frank DiGiovanni, the Acting Director of Readiness and Training Policy and Programs at Defense.

Tags: management , Civilian Expeditionary Workforce , Frank DiGiovanni , DoD , Defense , Suzanne Kubota , best practices , training

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Tips for knowing what the government owns

OMB's figures come "from an incomplete database built from inconsistent data managed mainly by the agencies themselves, each using its own inventory method," says the Reason Foundation. Director of economic research, Anthony Randazzo, explains.

Tags: OMB , management , Reason Foundation , Anthony Randazzo , Suzanne Kubota

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Cybersecurity chief calls White House meeting

Malware not being looked for on mobile devices; Zeus v3 targets Spain, Germany, UK, and USA banks,

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Howard Schmidt , Zeus botnet , malware , smartphones , SANS Institute

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