The TSP participants who filed the class-action lawsuit said although the mistakes were foreseeable and avoidable, processing delays caused serious financial damages to federal employees seeking loans and withdrawals.
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The Bureau of Prisons must do simple things to makes itself a better place to work: Get to full staffing. Hire the right people. Update crumbling facilities. Sharpen the anti-recidivism problems. Easy to visualize, difficult to do. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin digs into the longstanding challenges that earned BOP the lowest score in the Partnership for Public Service's Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings.
Fending off a U.S. default, the Senate has given final approval to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package. It’s now on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law before a fast-approaching deadline.
NASA is publicly addressing the subject of UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings. And it insists it’s not hiding anything. The space agency televised Wednesday’s four-hour meeting featuring an independent panel of experts. The team includes 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA including retired astronaut Scott Kelly, the first American to spend nearly a year in space. NASA says several committee members have been subjected to online harassment for serving on the team. They say that detracts from the scientific process. A final report is expected by the end of July.
There’s the business climate. And there’s the environmental climate. Officials at Customs and Border Protection want to talk with industry about the impact of international trade on the climate … and they’re organizing an event to share ideas.
Can agencies create CX that’s ‘simplistic, delightful and surprising’? Leaders from the USDA, Department of Education, Homeland Security Department and IRS think so and share the work underway in their agencies to make it easy to navigate government services — for the federal workforce and for the public. Sponsored by Verizon.
DHS is reshaping its approach to technology by focusing on more agile, iterative projects, and reducing its reliance on big system integrators.
Debt ceiling, debt ceiling, debt ceiling. It’s all you’ve heard from members of Congress and those who cover it. Now that all parties involved have come to an agreement to raise it, what does it mean for federal agency budgets?
I spoke with Vishnu Reddy, professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona, about the possibility of classifying space assets as critical infrastructure.
