Commentary
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Imagine asking for a $100 grant or gift from a charity because you desperately need it to fill the tank with gas so you could get to a job where you were not getting paid?
February 07, 2019 -
Tom Temin outlines why recent cloud strategies released by the Defense Department read more like a way of backing into what the department has already been doing in cloud computing.
February 06, 2019 -
John Kreger, a vice president for public sector programs at MITRE’s Center for Programs and Technology, details four steps to unlock the power of intelligence interoperability.
February 06, 2019 -
For the past decade the number of self-made millionaires in the federal Thrift Savings Plan has been growing steadily. peaking in September. But the last quarter of 2018 saw the market fall.
February 05, 2019 -
Jonathan Williams and Julia Di Vito, attorneys with PilieroMazza, explain why they believe VA’s plan is a lose-lose for veterans.
February 04, 2019 -
Either House Democrats will cave on the southern border wall, President Donald Trump has learned his lesson or he’ll call a national emergency to get it built.
February 04, 2019 -
Ellen Dunagan, founder and president of Traverse Career Solutions, offers three suggestions for how furloughed federal employees can rethink their professional goals.
February 01, 2019 -
People expect the government in Washington to panic over ice and snow. For as long as anyone can remember folks at the headquarters office of most federal operations pack the traditional D.C. survival kit: White bread, milk and toilet paper.
February 01, 2019 -
Our survey reveals a sense of resentment of the furloughed by those forced to work.
January 31, 2019 -
Now that the record 35-day partial shutdown is history, at least for awhile, it is only fitting that 75 percent of the nation is enduring several days of snow, ice and in some cases record-low temperatures.
January 31, 2019 -
If there is another government shutdown on Feb. 15, it may be the earthquake that causes the retirement tsunami to finally strike.
January 30, 2019 -
On a more cosmic level, the record-long 35 day shutdown raises lots of questions about the future of government service and civil servants. The issue is whether a lot of people quit or retire in disgust?
January 30, 2019 -
The D.C. area's senate delegation is taking an interest in cybersecurity beneath the city's streets.
January 29, 2019 -
Laurie Axelrod and Robin Camarote from the Wheelhouse Group offer advice for how federal managers can reintegrate workers when the government fully reopens.
January 29, 2019 -
If you don’t like financial surprises you are probably going to hate the catch-up paycheck coming your way. The money you get for shutdown-delayed wages may not be nearly as much as you expected.
January 29, 2019