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Lockheed missile misses target

Army Operating Concept gets an update,

Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Lockheed , contracting , JAGM , missile , Army , Army Operating Concept , Defense , SAMMIE TRACKER

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Sammies finalist takes down Mexican drug cartel

Learn more about the DEA's work to crackdown on drug trade

Tags: Federal Drive , management , DEA , Mexican drug cartel , Carl Pike

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Sammies nominee creates eco-friendly building

A building that runs on almost no energy. It's not magic, it's called a net zero building -- and the Energy Department can now boast of creating the world's largest.

Tags: technology , Department of Energy , Jeff Baker , Office of Laboratory Operations , green government , Sammies , Partnership for Public Service , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider

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Sammie nominee responded to Ft. Hood attack

Sgt. Mark Todd tells the DorobekInsider that he was "just doing his job".

Tags: pay and benefits , Service to America Medals , Sgt. Mark Todd , Sgt. Kimberly Munley , Ft. Hood , Army , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider

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Ron Sanders offers lessons learned

Through nearly four decades of public service, Ron Sanders led major organizational and personnel reforms in critical areas of the federal government. We learn more from the Sammies award finalist.

Tags: Federal Drive , SAMMIES Tracker , Ron Sanders , management , ODNI

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Sammies nominee works to stop AIDS

Since 1981 an estimated 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide.

Tags: technology , management , Sammies , Service to America Medal , Partnership for Public Service , CDC , Dr. R.J. Simonds , DorobekInsider

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Fed invents most accurate clock in the world

If you are a sticker for time then your in luck.

Tags: technology , Sammies , NIST , Till Rosenband , Partnership for Public Service , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider

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SAMMIE Tracker: the secret to success

Peter Wilhelm has developed and deployed 95 satellites, pioneering significant advances from lunar exploration to GPS to global weather forecasting. We talk with the Director of the Naval Center for Space Technology about his work.

Tags: Federal Drive , SAMMIES Tracker , Sammies , Peter Wilhelm , Naval Research Laboratory , Naval Center for Space Technology

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SSA makes rural America accessible to all

If you have traveled out West, you have an idea of the vastness of parts of this country. Two Sammies nominees tell us how they've managed to close the gap -- literally.

Tags: technology , management , SSA , Eva Ristow , Shane Kelley , Nancy Berryhill , DorobekInsider , Service to America Medals

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SAMMIES nominee helps the blind to see

One NASA scientist is literally helping people see.

Tags: technology , NASA , Rafat Ansari , Service to America Medals , DorobekInsider

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