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Caitlin Fairchild
Web Producer
Caitlin Fairchild joined Government Executive in summer 2011 as an editorial fellow, after graduating from the College of William & Mary, where she spent four years writing for the student newspaper, The Flat Hat. In March 2012, she was hired full time as a web producer. She has completed internships at Washingtonian Magazine and at the public affairs office of Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.
Video: Fed leaders stress the need for food drive
August 9, 2012 John Berry the director of OPM, Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Hayes, and Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. and Frank Wolf, R-Va., recently campaigned for the Feds Feed Families program at the U.S. Geological Service headquarters in Virginia. The initiative strives to replenish food bank stocks during the summer months when ...
Live-tweeting Curiosity's landing from Earth
August 6, 2012
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After a nearly 9 month journey, the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars at 1:32 a.m. EST Monday. NASA broadcast the event live from the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. This is the largest rover the agency has ever placed on Mars. Due to its ...
Video: NASA scientist discusses Curiosity with Colbert
August 3, 2012
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With NASA’s Curiosity Rover set to touch down on the surface of Mars around 1:30 AM EST Monday morning, the space agency’s associate administrator for the science mission directorate, John Grunsfeld, appeared on The Colbert Report Wednesday, Aug. 1, to discuss the Curiosity Rover’s $2.5 billion mission. Curiosity will travel ...
Photo Gallery: Colorado wildfires
July 3, 2012 The Waldo Canyon fire, the most destructive in Colorado’s history as measured by number of homes destroyed, began on June 23 near Colorado Springs, about 60 miles south of Denver. It forced more than 30,000 residents to evacuate. The majority of them have since returned, and as of Tuesday, an ...
Mermaids? NOAA Says No
July 2, 2012 Mermaids are not real, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared on its website. Although NOAA typically works on tracking weather patterns and monitoring fisheries management, the agency felt the need to set the record straight, stating, “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.” The clarification came ...
Video: Small Business Administrator Hangs Out
May 30, 2012
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The White House continued its string of Google+ events with Small Business Administration head Karen Mills, who hosted the hangout last week to announce the winners of its Small Business Week video contest. The four contest winners and small business owners also participated in the hangout to discuss the national ...
To Infinity and Beyond
May 24, 2012
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NASA hopes to have a manned mission to Mars by 2033, Nature reported Wednesday. Part of an internal NASA study, the Mars Program Planning Group has been charged with revitalizing the agency’s Mars Program, as well as getting the human and robotic sides of NASA to collaborate on the initiative. ...
Petraeus: Likes Fruit, Dislikes Crossing the Street
May 11, 2012 We all have our idiosyncrasies, and agency heads are no different. Retired general and current CIA Director David Petraeus reportedly has a list of requirements for when he travels, according to the blog The Back Channel. His request list includes fresh pineapple every night before bed, sliced bananas to top ...
Video: NIH head takes to late night television
May 11, 2012 National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins appeared as a guest on the Colbert Report Thursday. Collins will appear in “The Weight of the Nation,” an HBO documentary series on obesity in the U.S. “What are we going to do about the fact that two thirds of adults and one ...
White House establishing domestic violence policy for agencies
April 18, 2012 President Obama sent a memorandum Wednesday to all agency and department heads directing them to establish policies for addressing domestic violence among the federal workforce. “We know that domestic violence doesn’t just stay in the home. It can extend into the workplace, with devastating effects on its victims and costs ...
