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Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on IT, said he will use the FITARA scorecard currently under development to hold agencies accountable. He promised hearings on both FITARA and the OPM data breach this fall.
Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey hopes improved recruitment and retention practices as well as a new evaluation system for non-commissioned officers will strengthen the ranks in the face of budget cuts.
In Depth host Francis Rose sits down with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) for a conversation about some of the top stories impacting federal employees.
With only 10 days left to pass sweeping budget deals and little agreement over proposals, Congress' likely options are pass a continuing resolution, or force a shutdown.
Conference negotiators on the 2016 Defense Authorization Act will convene shortly as Congress comes back from its summer recess. The Defense Department is reviewing the results of base realignment and closure in Europe as it continues to make the case again for another round of BRAC stateside. Michael O'Hanlon, co-director and senior Fellow for Foreign Policy of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, wrote about BRAC in the National Interest magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose he's not sure prospects for a round of BRAC are much different now than they have been the past few years.
After a month of recess, Congress gets back to work today. The budget clock is ticking for fiscal year 2016. The most likely outcome is a continuing resolution of some kind. Beyond that there's not a lot of clarity. David Hawkings, senior editor of CQ Roll Call, offers some insight on In Depth with Francis Rose.
Been out of town on vacation? Welcome back, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. You've missed a lot and there's plenty of things to get caught up on.
Contractors looking to submit proposals for FirstNet's public safety nationwide network could see a final draft RFP by the end of this year.
Congress returns after its August recess needing to complete 12 spending bills, deal with a looming fiscal deadline, and focus on cybersecurity and DoD issues.
Recent congressional patent reform focused in part on trolls, individuals or companies who purchase patents and then try to intimidate other businesses into legal settlements over alleged infringement. Patent expert Richard Bennett is a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He says these reform efforts are fine as far as they went. But he says on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin that the reforms didn't go to the root of the issue.
With just a month to go before the start of a new fiscal year, VA Secretary Bob McDonald has called on Congress to give the department a robust, stable and flexible budget. Even though lawmakers passed a stopgap measure a month ago to keep VA hospitals from running out of funds, that authority will expire on Sept. 30.
In lieu of a government shutdown, a continuing resolution can be an improvement opportunity for agency leaders and transition officers.
If your regular September game plan is to recover from your vacation and focus on back-to-school stuff, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you picked the wrong month this year.
NARFE's John Hatton and Katie Maddocks from the Federal Managers Association, join host Mike Causey to talk about some of the issues that Congress will tackle when it returns from its summer recess. September 2, 2015