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Charge disclosed in Cuban spying against US
Tags: State Department , Justice ,
Federal Drive Interviews -- March 8, 2013
National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran says the CBP furlough plan could cut agents' pay by 40 percent. Francesca Grifo of the Union for Concerned Scientists talk about a new report on scientific integrity at federal agencies. Registered employee benefit consultant Ed Zurndorfer talks about what furloughed feds should do instead of taking money from their TSP funds. Priya Jaisinghani of USAID discusses the Mobile Solutions team which capitalizes on cell phones' popularity in developing countries.
Tags: Federal Drive , Priya Jaisinghani , Shawn Moran , Francesca Grifo , Ed Zurndorfer , CBP
Possible USAID bid rigging probed
The Justice Department is conducting an investigation into possible contract rigging by the general counsel at the government agency that distributes foreign aid.
Tags: Justice Department , Donald Steinberg
Federal Drive Interviews -- Dec. 6, 2012
Kathleen Frisbee talks about mobile efforts at the Veterans Health Administration. Richard Buangan of the State Department talks about an agency Twitter account that tweets off-message. Ticora Jones discusses new development labs built with seed money from USAID.
Tags: Kathleen Frisbee , Richard Buangan , Veterans Affairs , Veterans Health Administration , State Department , twitter , social media , Ticora Jones , Federal Drive
DoD, State implement only fraction of wartime contracting recommendations
A new Government Accountability Office report found that three main actors in contingency contracting — the Defense and State Departments and the U.S. Agency for International Development — will likely only implement a fraction of the recommendations set out by the Commission on Wartime Contracting. The agencies have either determined their existing policies already address the commission's concerns or they disagreed with the recommendation in the first place, GAO found.
Tags: GAO , DoD , State , contracting , contingency contracting , acquisition , Commission on Wartime Contracting , Jack Moore
Small business contracting goal remains elusive
The Obama administration has pushed agencies to increase contracting opportunities with small business, most notably creating a governmentwide task force to share best practices. Yet the federal government on a whole has continued to miss its 23 percent small business contracting goal. Federal News Radio examines this issue as part of our special report, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years.
Tags: SBA , John Shoraka , OFPP , Joe Jordan , acquisition , contracting , set-asides , Mauricio Vera , Jeanette Brown , EPA , small business , Obama Impact , Jolie Lee
USAID plans to rebound from dramatic drop in cybersecurity scores
The U.S. Agency for International Development saw
their FISMA scores drop to an F grade. Jerry
Horton, USAID's chief information officer, said
they will fix their shortcomings this year.
June 21, 2012
Tags: technology , Jerry Horton , cybersecurity , FISMA , cloud computing , Network upgrade , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller
USAID using big data to its advantage
Chief Information Officer Jerry Horton said his agency is now linking its procurement and financial systems, among others, to take advantage of the large amounts of data USAID produces.
Tags: big data , Jerry Horton , CIO , technology
USAID crowdsources to clean up aid data
The United States Agency for International Development called on volunteers to clean up data with more accurate geolocation information. Over the weekend, USAID held a crowdsourcing event asking for volunteers from the public to help code and research information on 20,000 records.
Tags: Shadrock Roberts , technology , crowdsourcing , Federal Drive
USAID emphasizes strengthening local institutions
It's long been the tradition of the U.S. Agency for International Development to hire U.S. contractors and nongovernmental organizations. But USAID is not shifting its investments to local entities.
Tags: Mark Feierstein , international development , Federal Drive
