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Senate skeptics probe DoD officials on JFCOM cuts

The Pentagon's decision to close Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., remains its biggest hot spot in its effort to save $100 billion over the next three years.

Tags: Francis Rose , management , technology , William Lynn , Jim Webb , Robert Gates , Carl Levin , Joseph Lieberman , Ashton Carter , John McCain , Senate Armed Services Committee , DoD , Joint Forces Command , BTA , Teri Takai , efficiency initiatives , Jason Miller , JFCOM

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Hiring cyber pros at DoD: Alexander's plan

DoD will hire 1,000 cybersecurity workers a year across all the services over the next few years to build their cyber force.

Tags: Francis Rose , cybersecurity , technology , Defense , DoD , Keith Alexander , House Armed Services Committee

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Best of In Depth - September 24

This "best-of" show highlights Federal News Countdown with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Kim Peretti and Government Executive's Tom Shoop; also, an interview with John Young, former undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.

Tags: John Young , Tom Shoop , Government Executive , Kim Peretti , PricewaterhouseCooper , DoD

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Federal Hispanic Career Advancement Summit coming Nov 29-30

We're about two months out from the third annual Federal Hispanic Career Advancement Summit, November 29th and 30th at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.

Tags: Francis Rose , Sara Clemente Sosa , Ramon Suris Fernandez , Bill Zielinski , Labor , OPM , Federal Hispanic Career Advancement Summit

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Young: Multiyear contracts at DoD can save money

John Young, former Undersecretary of Defense, argues for the need to use more multi-year procurement contracts at DoD.

Tags: John Young , DoD , procurement , Francis Rose , Pentagon Solutions

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Azmi: Supply chain forgotten element in cybersecurity

CACI International and the U.S. Naval Institute released a report national security and assessing cyber threats specifically on global supply chains.

Tags: technology , Zal Azmi , cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Report , supply chain , best practices , Francis Rose

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Y2K offers lessons for cybersecurity

One cyber bill before Congress would create a cyber committee much like the Y2K Conversion committee to help deal with cybersecurity issues. John Koskinen, former chairman of the Council on Year 2000 Conversion, tells us how his committee was set up and why it was successful.

Tags: John Koskinen , cybersecurity , technology , Y2K , Council on Year 2000 Conversion , Cybersecurity Update ,

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Countdown: reshaping the Pentagon, catching cyber crooks

This week's experts: --Kim Peretti of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Tom Shoop of Government Executive and GovExec.com

Tags: Francis Rose , Federal News Countdown , Tom Shoop , GovExec , Kim Peretti , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Robert Gates , DoD

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How to use virtualization to become a "yes" CIO

"CIOs that are adopting desktop virtualization can be CIOs that can say 'yes' to things; before they had to say 'no' because there was no way to manage those devices."

Tags: Francis Rose , Industry Chatter , technology , virtualization , Joe Brown , Accelera Solutions

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Analysis: How to define 'inherently governmental'

Francis Rose is joined by industry leaders and federal employees in an effort to parse out the lines of distinction.

Tags: inherently governmental , Francis Rose , Barbara Atkin , Al Burman , Angela Styles , In Depth Conversation

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