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  • Surviving at the bottom of a legislative volcano

    Being a fed is like living in a nudist colony at the base of a dormant but still active volcano. Or being in an all-glass group house. The scenery is great, but you never know who or what\'s out there, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    Mike Causey
    April 10, 2015
  • Death by a thousand cuts or improving the civil service?

    There are a lot of proposals floating around Washington that purport to be solely for cost savings or making government more efficient. Jeff Neal, a former chief human capital officer, examines these claims in a new commentary.

    Congress
    April 09, 2015
  • Millennials in the federal workforce

    Susan Fallon, vice president for Global Strategy and Business Development at Monster Government Solutions will explain why federal agencies should be hiring more millennial workers, and Andy Medici with the Federal Times will bring us up to date on the House and Senate budgets. April 8, 2015

    Mike Causey
    April 08, 2015
  • With or without BRAC, DoD’s footprint is shrinking

    In the absence of congressional authorization for another BRAC round, the Pentagon contemplates \"alternative options\" for base closure. Meanwhile, defense communities see fewer personnel spread across the same number of bases.

    On DoD Podcasts
    April 08, 2015
  • Tom Collina, Director of Policy, Ploughshares Fund

    Members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees can\'t decide if the defense budget should be above or below sequestration caps. So both the House and Senate\'s plans keep DoD\'s budget within the caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act and increase funds for overseas contingency operations. Tom Collina is director of policy for the Ploughshares Fund and former research director of the non-partisan Arms Control Association. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said the OCO budget plans are just a political compromise and don\'t address the real issues confronting defense spending reform.

    All News
    April 07, 2015
  • Don’t let your agency strike out at its budget hearing

    Doug Criscitello, former chief financial officer at Housing and Urban Development, offers advice for federal managers to navigate the complex and sometimes messy budget process.

    Budget
    April 07, 2015
  • NTEU to Congress: You can’t starve the IRS

    The National Treasury Employees Union is turning up the heat on Congress to increase IRS funding. The labor union is hearing about the impact of five years of budget cuts now that tax-filing season is in full swing, said NTEU President Colleen Kelley.

    Budget
    April 07, 2015
  • Doomsday: Will you be on the bus or under it?

    People always seem to be predicting doom and gloom. But, after one look at what lawmakers have in store for federal employees in their budget plans, some feds are starting to prepare for the worst, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    Mike Causey
    April 07, 2015
  • Sens. McCaskill, Booker appeal for access to innovative IT

    Two senators wrote a letter to the Rules and Administration Committee highlighting several changes to policy needed to promote access and use of modern technology such as cloud computing.

    Congress
    April 06, 2015
  • David Powner, Director of IT Management Issues, GAO

    A big part of a federal chief information officer\'s job is filing reports required by Congress or the White House. But a survey of CIOs shows they find two-thirds of the reports are at least a partial waste of time. The survey was conducted by the Government Accountability Office. It found that the Office of Management and Budget has tried to streamline the reporting process. But, GAO says OMB missed opportunities to address some of the challenges CIOs encounter. David Powner is director of information technology management issues at GAO. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the report and its findings.

    Federal Drive
    April 06, 2015
  • McCain says Air Force’s headquarters cutbacks are illusory

    Sen. John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,has sent a letter to Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James accusing the Air Force of engaging in a \"shell game that simply moved money to fund the same positions elsewhere in the service.\"

    Congress
    April 06, 2015
  • Lawmakers seek new review of military voting assistance program

    Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have sent a unanimous, bipartisan letter to the Government Accountability Office asking for a new review of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the DoD office in charge of helping military members and civilians living abroad cast their ballots. The committee notes that GAO has issued several reports on FVAP since 2001, but says that \"continued management attention to FVAP still remains a priority.\"

    Congress
    April 06, 2015
  • Spring break for feds

    It\'s spring break for federal workers and retirees, mainly because Congress is out of town, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    Mike Causey
    April 06, 2015
  • NIH may be spared from sequestration, Cardin says

    The Maryland Democrat fielded questions from National Institutes of Health employees at a town-hall meeting at the agency's Bethesda headquarters.

    Budget
    April 02, 2015
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