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The 2017 defense authorization bill now has a provision requiring women to sign up for selective service.
Some Defense analysts believe changes being considered in Congress ignore the fundamental problems in the DoD acquisition system. Matthew Fay, a foreign and defense policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about why he's a critic of the proposal.
Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations took the Homeland Security Department to task for six straight years of declining employee engagement scores on the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. DHS is ranked as the worst agency to work for in government.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to introduce a package of bills aimed at government reform. The legislative bundle includes extra protection for whistleblowers as well as barriers to prevent abuse of administrative leave and awarding bonuses to misbehaving employees.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would get new enforcement powers under a bill from Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). Among the provisions: Lifting a ban on a national, consolidated database of guns sold. Beyer joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share how his bill would change the ATF.
Katherine Blakeley, research fellow for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss her new report on the seven areas to watch in the FY 2017 defense budget. April 29, 2016
The DATA Act will make it easier for the federal government to prepare for the future and help citizens, but before it can do that, agencies need help in meeting the May 2017 implementation deadline.
For some on Capitol Hill, mostly Republicans, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen personifies everything they think is wrong with the IRS. That's why members have been debating no less than six IRS-related bills. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin he thinks none of them will pass.
Cybersecurity experts say the government needs to address gaps in its IT systems and workforce to strengthen its defenses against data breaches, threats that are now a part of everyday federal operations.
New reports by the agency’s inspector general and a private company, called Security Scorecard, both highlight the space agency’s struggles around management and to control malware on their network.
Kristin Seaver steps in to the CIO and executive vice president roles after spending the last two-plus years working as the vice president of area operations for the Capital Metro Area.
Three recent bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that address issues of administrative leave, Defense acquisition, and federal real property.
The Postal Regulatory Commission mandated that USPS reduce its postal rates for the first time in 100 years, a move that could cost the organization more than $2 billion in annual revenue.
More than 50 members of the House cosigned a letter asking President Obama to make the federal hiring process more accessible to Americans with criminal histories.