Candidate court. Editor Lindy Kyzer advises, “Outside of sitting and waiting for the perfect candidate to come, you have one surefire way to increase your chances of having the right talent available when you need it – building your cleared talent pipeline by making great connections with candidates when you see them.”
STEM: inside bioanalysis. Contributor Jennifer Cary’s interview with bioanalyst Analynn Crow: “Get as much experience as you can by either joining STEM groups in school, doing internships, volunteering, getting certifications or licenses. A big part of my resume listed the specific classes I took and the different laboratory instruments I was familiar with. I also highlighted my senior project where I performed my own experiment and I was able to elaborate on this during my interviews.”
THE FORCE AND THE FIGHT
AP’s Zeina Karam and Dan Perry report, “Syria has already been shattered by more than four years of civil war, and with no solution in sight, some players on the ground and observers outside have concluded its fate will be to break up along sectarian or regional lines – in a best-case scenario, tenuously held together by a less centralized state.”
Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe reports, “Taliban fighters fanned out through Kunduz, freeing hundreds of insurgents from a prison and seizing control of government facilities. The city has ‘collapsed,’ Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said in an interview with the Associated Press. Taliban fighters posted photos and video of their victory online . . . .”
Defense Media Activity’s Jim Garamone reports, “The United States will provide much more support to U.N. peacekeeping efforts, President Barack Obama said [Monday] at the United Nations in New York. As the president spoke to the U.N. General Assembly, the White House released a memo he signed pledging more support to United Nations Peace Operations. In the memo, the president said he will ‘strongly consider’ providing military, police and civilian personnel to support or participate in U.N. peace operations.”
TECH, PRIVACY, & SECRECY
The Atlantic’s Annie Jacobsen reports, “For decades after its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—DARPA, the central research and development organization of the Department of Defense—focused on developing vast weapons systems. Starting in 1990, and owing to individuals like Gorman, a new focus was put on soldiers, airmen, and sailors—on transforming humans for war.”
Defense Tech’s Brendan McGarry reports, “The Pentagon’s research arm has achieved another breakthrough in a project designed to revolutionize the technology behind prosthetic limbs and potentially help wounded troops. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this month announced that a 28-year-old man paralyzed for more than a decade from a spinal cord injury was able to feel physical sensations through a robotic hand wired to his brain.”
Federal Times’ Aaron Boyd reports, “A group of federal IT managers and officials from the General Services Administration are working together on an update to the Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management (FICAM) framework on track for release in October and a set of playbooks to help agencies implement various security measures.”
Homeland Security News Wire reports, “From conflict zones to airports to sporting events, bombs pose dangers for innocent civilians as well as the bomb technicians who regularly risk their lives to investigate suspicious objects and render the devices safe. Technology solutions can help first responders to see hidden dangers.”
