Commentary
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According to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, DHS wants a more robust response when companies under cyber attack call its equivalent of 911.
August 02, 2018 -
Dave Mader and Jennifer Walcott, both of Deloitte Consulting, explain how agencies can keep complexity and customization to a minimum when modernizing IT.
August 02, 2018 -
Yesterday Mike Causey asked people to revisit the ghosts of shutdowns past and remember how they handled the financial and emotional strain. Shutdowns can be traumatic financially, but some feds said they turned them into a vacation.
August 02, 2018 -
Thanks to the Federal Employees Retirement System, the Civil Service Retirement System and Social Security retirement programs many people in the federal government will have guaranteed lifetime payments worth $1 to $2 million.
August 01, 2018 -
Sardine-eating and phone conferring spoil the idea of collaboration and brotherly love in open plan offices.
July 31, 2018 -
The Consortium Management Group responded to Federal News Radio’s two-part special report on the growing use of other transactions agreements (OTAs).
July 31, 2018 -
Traditionally, most knowledgeable folks thought fracturing the federal workforce into different hiring, classification and pay systems, or “Balkanizing” the federal workforce was a bad idea.
July 31, 2018 -
Mars is closer to the Earth than ever this month. But we're not quite ready to get there in person.
July 27, 2018 -
Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government procurement, says NDAA contains a number of provisions that would reform the procurement process
July 27, 2018 -
Nearly four decades and seven presidents since one of Jimmy Carter’s proudest accomplishments — the Civil Service Reform Act, the team of President Donald Trump is set to take a crack at overhauling the government bureaucracy.
July 27, 2018 -
Have an employee of the month program at your office? Well now the Trump administration has plans to establish a reward-for-performance system in the government.
July 26, 2018 -
There's talk that some kind of raise, either 1.9 percent by some counts or 3 percent as proposed by congressional friends of feds, could be worked out via the appropriation process after the midterm election. If so, it would be exactly the same raise nonpostal feds got last January.
July 24, 2018 -
Dave Mader and Jennifer Walcott, both of Deloitte Consulting, describe how software-as-a-service can make IT modernization a reality.
July 24, 2018 -
Federal workers got a 1.4 percent raise in January that was proposed and backed by the president. But the outlook for 2019 was and still is different.
July 24, 2018 -
Back in less partisan times, federal and postal unions or at least their elected leaders leaned Democratic and but close ties with key Republicans in Congress, as well as with staffers whose committees dealt with civil service matters.
July 23, 2018