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The Defense Department will have to fill Congress in on certain conditions surrounding multi-year contracts 30 days before they are awarded if a new proposed rule is adopted.
Behind the 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate, you'll find a small army of Capitol Hill staff employees. They do everything from walk members' dogs during holidays to detailed analyses of complex programs. For a couple of centuries these denizens of the Hill got few of the legal workplace protections received by their executive branch counterparts. That changed 20 years ago when Congress established the Office of Compliance. Barbara Camens, chairman of the board of directors of the Office of Compliance, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a retrospective and look ahead.
Federal News Radio counts down the 10 most read stories of 2015. Find out what topics were most on the minds of our readers last year.
The Architect of the Capitol has started the final phase of the Capitol Dome restoration, with workers painting the base of the Statue of Freedom.
Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a look at some of the most significant Congressional actions in 2015 that impacted the government itself.
Pentagon budget officials say they got 95 percent what they wanted for 2016. In passing its omnibus appropriations bill, Congress boosted the Defense Department by about $30 billion. What will it buy? Bloomberg Government Senior Defense Analyst Rob Levinson offers some answers on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Secret Service has been running the National Computer Forensics Institute for years. But a bill now in Congress would expand its mission. Its sponsor, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) explains to Federal Drive with Tom Temin why he thinks the institute's expertise should be shared with law enforcement at all levels of government.
The Department of Defense wants to update its Uniform Code of Military Justice for the first time in more than 30 years.
The Obama administration will use law enforcement and even military force to deter cyber attacks in new policy.
In Tuesday's federal headlines, a new report from the Government Accountability Office says the Department of Defense is falling behind on the plan to shrink its civilian workforce
Marc Beskin, an NTEU chapter president, says things were often bad for feds in the good old days, but at least feds didn’t have to disguise where they worked.
Congress is giving more money to the Department of Veterans Affairs, while also requiring the beleaguered agency to report more frequently to the House and Senate appropriations committees.
Departments will soon begin to randomly investigate security clearance holders twice every five years.
The Defense Department is looking into ways to incorporate commercial practices in its satellite communications.