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Younger vets still struggle as jobs scene improves
Tags: Veterans Affairs , DoD , Curtis Coy
DHS, NIST lynchpins helping cyber order succeed
The newly issued Executive Order gives NIST, DHS several goals and corresponding deadlines over the next year. NIST will work with industry to create a cybersecurity framework. DHS is expanding the information sharing program so industry can receive classified and unclassified cyber threat data more easily and more quickly.
Tags: technology , NIST , Patrick Gallagher , DHS , Bruce McConnell , Jane Holl Lute , Michael Daniel , White House , cybersecurity , information sharing , Verizon , Alan Paller , SANS Institute , Craig Silliman , Jason Miller
VetNet: Helping veterans find jobs
Host Derrick Dortch hosts a roundtable discussion of a new initiatiave to help transitioning veterans find jobs once they leave the military.
December 7, 2012(Encore presentation December 21, 2012 & December 28, 2012)
Tags: workforce , hiring , Veterans hiring , Vet Net , Carrie Laureno , Google for Veterans , Google , Kevin Schmiegal , Hire our Heroes , Brian Stann , Hire Heroes USA , Derrick Dortch , Fed Access
Senate cyber bill is 'dead'
The upper chamber fails to move cyber bill out of starting blocks by receiving 60 votes to end cloture. Lawmakers couldn't get past their concerns over the requirement for regulations and DHS' oversight role.
Tags: technology , Congress , Harry Reid , Joseph Lieberman , Charles Grassley , cybersecurity , Susan Collins , Tom Carper , Jason Miller
New cybersecurity threat could revive legislation
Congress has a lot of unfinished business to tackle during its lame duck session expected in November. The House Intelligence Committee chairman thinks new threat information could push cyber legislation up the priority list.
Tags: technology , Congress , cybersecurity , National Security Agency , U.S. Cyber Command , Keith Alexander , House Intelligence Committee , Mike Rogers , CISPA , Jared Serbu , information sharing ,
Senate cyber bill faces bumpy road ahead
Lawmakers at odds over critical infrastructure protection provisions. Sen. McCain promised to introduce a new version of a comprehensive cyber bill to focus on collaboration and information sharing instead of regulation of critical infrastructures. Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins refute the criticism, saying they've held 10 hearings, hundreds of meeting and pleaded with others in the Senate to offer comments.
Tags: technology , management , Joseph Lieberman , Susan Collins , John McCain , Tom Ridge , Janet Napolitano , DHS , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , cybersecurity , critical infrastructure , privacy , DoD , NSA , Jason Miller
Mid-sized firms feeling squeezed in federal market
Most evidence anecdotal as there is no way to define these firms
Tags: contracting , GSA , DHS , DoD , Professional Services Council , JM , Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Co , Al Matera , Tom Essig , Brad Nelson , Richard Beutel , CSIS , David Berteau , Stan Soloway , GSA schedules , FPDS-NG
In depth discussion of pending 3% withholding mandate
Host Larry Allen talks with Chris Braddock of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
March 23, 2010
Tags: contracting , Off the Shelf , Chris Braddock
Agencies need rules before bringing jobs in-house
Rep. Issa says acquisition reform must begin with defining inherently governmental. He also proposes to use third parties to help write contract requirements.
Tags: contracting , Rep. Darrell Issa , Jeff Liebman , OMB , Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Energy , DoD , acquisition reform , inherently governmental , workforce , In-sourcing , A-76 , P&B
Intelligence community redefines inherently governmental
ODNI bringing work back into agencies and reducing contractor workforce.
Tags: contracting , Dennis Blair , ODNI , OMB , inherently governmental , A-76 , outsourcing , IARPA , cybersecurity
