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- Senate committee passes FAA funding measure without plan to privatize air traffic controlIn today's Federal Newscast, a bill authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration gets through the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee without plans to privatize the nation's air traffic control system like it's House counterpart.
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1 min - FBI Special Agent indicted for making false statements about Oregon standoffIn today's Federal Newscast, an FBI Special Agent involved with the 2016 standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge gets indicted for making false statements about an encounter with one of the occupiers.
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5 min - House Armed Services Committee approves adding climate change as security threatIn today's Federal Newscast, the House Armed Services Committee is in the process of creating a defense spending bill for fiscal 2018 and has approved an amendment which identifies climate change as a national security threat.
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4 min - FedRAMP's 5th anniversaryIn today's Federal Newscast, analysis of how the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program has matured over the last 5 years.
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4 min - EPA reshaping advisory boardsIn today's Federal Newscast, the Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of starting to rebuild its Science Advisory Boards.
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4 min - Bill in Congress would tighten rules around LPTA useIn today's Federal Newscast, two members of the House introduce legislation to apply limits to using lowest-price technically acceptable to civilian agencies.
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5 min - Former diplomatic Secret Service agent charged with spying for ChinaIn today's Federal Newscast, a former State Department special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service has appeared in federal court on charges of giving top-secret documents to a Chinese agent.
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5 min - New bill would grow Navy to 355 shipsIn today's Federal Newscast, the Navy would benefit from a proposed law that would grow its fleet to 355 ships. Estimates vary as to how quickly the 79-ship buildup could happen, or how it would be paid for.
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4 min - DoD seeks input on streamlining DFARSIn today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is targeting procurement rules in response to President Trump's executive order to evaluate existing regulations and recommend their repeal, replacement or modification.
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5 min - DHS hopes third time's a charm for major cybersecurity contract awardIn today's Federal Newscast, the Homeland Security Department has once again awarded Raytheon the $1 billion DOMino cybersecurity contract.
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About Federal Newscast
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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,…
generated by the non-partisan, non-political, private-sector team of reporters at Federal News Network. Federal News Radio Producer/Newscasters Eric White and Michele Sandiford assemble and read the stories on the THE FEDERAL DRIVE with TERRY GERTON, the weekday morning-drive program, heard from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. (ET) on the Federal News Network app (and website), on any smart speaker, and on WFED 1500 AM, a 50,000-watt 'Class A' powerhouse radio station in the nation's capital. The podcast is most popular with FNN's audience of highly educated listeners, who conveniently access THE FEDERAL NEWSCAST, 24/7, on any podcast platform . Listen to it (as just mentioned) or read the stories each weekday morning at FederalNewsNetwork.com, where the news items contain hyperlinks for those who want more information on a given story.
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