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May 19, 2021 New bill could have your mailman double as your bartender
In today's Federal Newscast, House and Senate lawmakers seek to overturn a ban on the Postal Service shipping alcohol to households.
9 min
May 18, 2021 Whistleblower advocates say federal employees need some educating
A big holiday is coming up in July. It celebrates free people who don't stay silent in the face of wrongdoing. No, not Independence Day July 4th. It's National Whistleblower Day on July 30. Now the National Whistleblower Center has urged federal agency heads to offer educational programming about July 30th. The Federal Drive got more now from the chairman of the National Whistle Blower Center and partner at Korn, Kohn and Colapinto, Stephen Kohn.
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20 min
May 18, 2021 IG: CBP's social media policies could use an update
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report finds senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection could have done more to address inappropriate and offensive social media comments from employees.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
7 min
May 18, 2021 Contractors design strategies for dealing with the latest executive order on cybersecurity
That executive order on cybersecurity from the White House last week. Where do you even begin with an 8,000-word tome with dozens of deadlines and action items. Contractors have been parsing it out. For one view, the Federal Drive turned to the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, Stephanie Kostro.
21 min
May 18, 2021 This Homeland Security program helps agencies deal with some nasty and ongoing cyber threats
Lots of agencies are hearing chirp, chirp these days. Not cicadas but alerts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It has a system called the CISA Hunt and Incident Response Program, CHIRP. It's designed, in the agency's words, to help network defenders find indicators of compromise from two recent and broadscale attacks. For more, the Federal Drive turned to CISA deputy associate director Jermaine Roebuck.
21 min
May 18, 2021 Whistleblower advocates say federal employees need some educating
A big holiday is coming up in July. It celebrates free people who don't stay silent in the face of wrongdoing. No, not Independence Day July 4th. It's National Whistleblower Day on July 30. Now the National Whistleblower Center has urged federal agency heads to offer educational programming about July 30th. The Federal Drive got more now from the chairman of the National Whistle Blower Center and partner at Korn, Kohn and Colapinto, Stephen Kohn.
20 min
May 18, 2021 Biden’s DoD will huddle about how to replace CMO position
The Defense Department no longer has a chief management officer. But it still needs a solid dose of management. That came to light in a recent hearing for the Biden administration's nominee for DOD Comptroller, Michael McCord. For more on this and other recent developments, the Federal Drive turned to Federal News Network's Jared Serbu and Scott Maucione.
21 min
May 18, 2021 EINSTEIN program may be getting a bad rap
The Homeland Security Department's EINSTEIN cybersecurity program has been an easy punching bag for so-called experts and lawmakers over the last five months. At hearings and at conferences, the value of EINSTEIN continually came into question after the SolarWinds and other cyber attacks.
In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about why these so-called experts and lawmakers are misinformed and why the EINSTEIN program is much more successful than most people know.
21 min
May 18, 2021 IG: CBP's social media policies could use an update
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report finds senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection could have done more to address inappropriate and offensive social media comments from employees.
7 min
May 17, 2021 DOD says servicmembers and civilian employees can leave masks at home if vaccinated
In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon says military members and civilian employees can do their jobs without masks, as long as they’re fully vaccinated.
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8 min

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THE FEDERAL NEWSCAST, (length about seven minutes), is a daily Monday through Friday, high-information compilation of nine 40-second news stories and news packages,…