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Recruiting and human capital management has always been a priority for the Intelligence Community. The ongoing need for finding the right talent to meet the ever growing demands that come with securing our nation will continue to be an ongoing priority. Federal News Radio recently attended the Federal Symposium on Human Capital Management and broadcasted the presentation of ODNI Chief Human Capital Officer Ron Sanders, who discussed how half of the IC workforce has been hired since 9/11, creating a “trough” of workers between the employees with less than eight years of service, and those with more than 20 years. He also discussed emerging trends on a global and technological scale. Check out the audio of his presentation here.

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Federal Computer Week just came out with a story regarding the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and how it is soliciting information from companies to help the agency upgrade its geospatial data. According to a request for information, the NGA is interested in a consistently produced, global geospatial dataset to be used to produce a kind of chart called a NAVPLAN. An NGA spokeswoman explained to FCW that NAVPLAN charts are small-scale charts used for planning flight missions. So, according to an RFI posted on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site, the NGA is interested in data at the scale of 1:500,000 or smaller and with specific features. Read more here.

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