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Charles Heurich: Finding Closure for Loved Ones

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This is the sixth of a series of profiles on the nine standout public servants who received Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies) honoring their high-impact contributions to the health, safety and well-being of Americans at a Washington, D.C. gala September 15. The awards, presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, are among the most prestigious honors given to America’s civil servants. This profile features the winner of the justice and law enforcement medal, Charles Heurich, Program Manager for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System at the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice.

More than 20 years after her sister Paula Davis disappeared, Stephanie Clack went to a newly created federal website which matches missing-person cases with unidentified human remains, and quickly unraveled the disturbing mystery that for so long had haunted her family. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 23, 2011 at 4:00 PM

Diane Braunstein: Bringing Compassion to Process

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This is the fourth of a series of profiles on the nine standout public servants who received Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies) honoring their high-impact contributions to the health, safety and well-being of Americans at a Washington, D.C. gala September 15. The awards, presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, are among the most prestigious honors given to America’s civil servants. This profile features the winner of the citizen services medal, Diane Braunstein, associate commissioner for the Office of International Programs at the Social Security Administration.

Imagine that you were diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer or a rare and debilitating chronic disease, have applied for Social Security disability benefits to help make ends meet, and are placed on a long waiting list where the claim lingers without resolution. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 21, 2011 at 1:30 PM

Alfonso Batres: How One Veteran Is Making A Difference At VA

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This is the second of a series of profiles on the nine standout public servants who received Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies) honoring their high-impact contributions to the health, safety and well-being of Americans at a Washington, D.C. gala September 15. The awards, presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, are among the most prestigious honors given to America’s civil servants. This profile features the winner of the career achievement medal, Alfonso Batres, chief officer of the readjustment counseling service for the Veterans Health Administration.

Alfonso Batres’ career has been dedicated to one important mission-addressing the needs of our nation’s veterans and their families. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM

How Super ESPC Contracts Are Producing Super Savings for Energy Department

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If you like saving taxpayer money — to the tune of $13.1 billion to date and counting – then you already love Energy Savings Performance Contracts or ESPCs.

ESPCs are a super deal for American taxpayers and federal agencies alike. But despite the impressive savings they have produced, ESPCs are not well known in the IT world. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 15, 2011 at 3:14 PM

Federal Agencies, Disabled Workers Benefit From Accommodation Program

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Seven months after a hijacked passenger jet slammed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, a Defense Department accountant who lost both of her hands in the attack visited the Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) looking for help.

“I don’t think there’s anything you can do for me,” said the woman, who had recovered from burns over 70 percent of her body. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 15, 2011 at 10:03 AM

Ten Years After 9/11: Three Eyewitness Perspectives On DHS’s Creation

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About This Program:
In this mini-documentary exclusive for Breaking Gov, award-winning journalist Dan Verton brings us back to the day that changed the world and traces the evolution of the homeland security mission through the eyes of three men who were present at its creation.

This is the story of the birth and evolution of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as told by the nation’s first secretary of Homeland Security, the deputy for counterterrorism on the National Security Council, and the CIA’s deputy director of intelligence, who would go on to become the first Staff Director for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM

White House Offers Online Petition Tool

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The White House is providing a new tool for the public to talk to its government.

It’s making it easier for the public to petition the government online through the tool,
We The People. An official response is guaranteed for any petition that draws enough signatures – 5,000 names within 30 days. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 1, 2011 at 10:20 AM

Symantec May Offer Federal Cybersecurity Solution

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Cybersecurity powerhouse Symantec Corp. plans to release a new product within the next 12 months that it believes will deliver the necessary identity management and information protections that many federal agencies are looking for before they make the leap to cloud computing, a senior Symantec official said.

Many federal enterprises, particularly those in the defense, intelligence and homeland security arenas, have been slow to move to cloud-based services because of the security concerns that arise from moving an organization’s servers, software and data into a shared cloud environment. But with its new O3 (a.k.a. Ozone) product, which will combine identity management with policy controls, information inspection and encryption, Symantec officials believe they have the answer that the government has been looking for. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 1, 2011 at 6:59 AM

Feds@Work: FEMA’s Craig Fugate Gets Ahead Of The Storm

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Craig Fugate has always been a man with a mission- and all the more so this week as the nation’s leading emergency responder, as the head of Federal Emergency Management Agency, tries to get 60 million people on the East Coast ready for Hurricane Irene. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 26, 2011 at 1:01 PM

Ridge Blasts Public Safety Wireless Battle; Calls Congress’ Inaction ‘A Bloody Outrage’

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The nation’s first Secretary of Homeland Security said Congress has “failed” America’s first responders by not acting on legislation that would dedicate wireless communications spectrum to a nationwide, interoperable, public safety network and said it is unlikely anything will pass before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

“It’s wrong. It’s really wrong for them to have failed these first responders,” said Tom Ridge, appointed by President George W. Bush shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 to lead the homeland security effort, and who subsequently became America’s first Secretary of Homeland Security in 2003. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM
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