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System outages and patient safety concerns associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs' new electronic health record have led to top members of the House VA Committee calling for the agency to stop future rollouts.
Social media and text messaging are now a way of life for people in the military — they use the services to keep in contact with friends, for recruiting, to do their jobs, to find like-minded people or just to show their mom what they did today. Those platforms are also wrought with sexual harassment, bullying, hazing and intimidation directed at troops and perpetrated by them.
After guilty pleas, settlements, investigations, extra investments, more staff and promises to do better from contractors and the Pentagon, at least one military housing company is still failing to remediate hazards in service members’ homes and inadequately recording complaints made by those troops and their families.
Ukraine and keeping aid flowing to that country, it's one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill.
The Postal Service is telling its regulator it has no plans yet to pull the plug on a postal banking pilot, despite a lack of customers and opposition from House Republicans.
In today's Federal Newscast, top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are calling on the State Department to expand opportunities for LGBTQ diplomats.
The Senate’s Inspired to Serve Hiring Improvements Act would add flexibility for recruiting college graduates, along with lengthening temporary employee terms and expanding direct hire authority.
Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a Senior Fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s Business School, details what steps Congress can take to improve the Small Business Innovation Research program.
Members of Congress are off this week, for Passover, Easter or Ramadan. With any luck they're also thinking about getting after the 2022 budget before they return, and before they turn all their attention to the mid-term elections.
The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress is looking at whether the body could function if a natural or manmade disaster took out large numbers of members.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal agencies will have to come up with a plan to recycle their electric vehicle batteries, if a Senate bills makes it through Congress.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says tough decisions lie ahead as part of the Postal Service's 10-year reform plan, and that the future of the agency depends on them.
In today's Federal Newscast, concerns about the movement of U.S. Space Command headquarters are mounting.
Nearly every agency would see more money in 2023 under the Biden administration's top line request, but it also shows the increasing pressure of the so-called discretionary spending, as mandatory spending expands.