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The Defense Department must spend $37 million to expand the Bethesda military hospital\'s overloaded power grid, after a substation at the National Institutes of Health reached capacity.
August 31, 2011 -
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On today\'s Federal Drive: OPM announced that despite the weak economy, agency incentive payments to recruit and retain workers actually increased. Plus, the Commission on Wartime Contracting releases its final report and the head of the ATF bureau steps down after a controversial gun-loan program comes to light.
August 31, 2011 -
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The federal government pulled a number of components from various federal departments to create Customs and Border Protection, after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Inspiring employees to work together under a new boss required persistence and a sense of shared mission, Assistant Commissioner of Field Operations Thomas Winkowski told reporters in a roundtable about border security developments since the attacks.
August 31, 2011 -
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The Departments of the Navy, Agriculture and Energy are asking industry how best to spend $510 million on the future of biofuels. They are leaning on a 1950 law that lets the government pour cash into defense-critical industries.
August 31, 2011 -
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If the federal thrift savings plan is so great why do so many people hate it. And how come insiders are always looking for ways to get a piece of the TSP action, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders, or an account of their own?
August 31, 2011 -
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A new Office of Personnel Management report showed that agency use of recruitment, relocation and retention incentives rose 22 percent in 2009, the Obama administration\'s first year. That\'s a slower rate of growth than in previous years. But it indicates that the government still relies on one-time payments to lure or keep nurses, engineers and others with needed skills.
August 30, 2011 -
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ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson is stepping down immediately, according to his resignation letter today.
August 30, 2011 -
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These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today. Combining three very different federal agencies isn’t easy. But it’s exactly what the government did, when it put together Customs and Border Protection…
August 30, 2011 -
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are getting some good reviews for their response to Irene, writes Tom Shoop in Government Executive.
August 30, 2011 -
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The contract is for HP to provide work stations, processors and other products.
August 30, 2011 -
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The main issue the department is looking at is the large memory space of the devices and users\' lack of knowledge about mobile devices. DoD is also evaluating how information may be risked.
August 30, 2011 -
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Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller\'s talks to Houston Taylor, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Acquisition Management at the General Services Administration, about the agency\'s new contracting vehicle called Integrations.
August 30, 2011 -
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of money to get them through the end of the fiscal year. They’re focusing all of their remaining 900 million dollars on the response to Hurricane Irene.…
August 30, 2011 -
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Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs at FRTIB, explains how the changing of the guard means for your TSP.
August 30, 2011
