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The three-month team will look at computer chips, medical supplies and everything in between.
The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package gives federal employees access to a new bank of paid leave, which will allow them to recover from COVID-19 and care for sick family members, or children who are learning virtually from home. President Joe Biden signed the relief bill into law Thursday afternoon.
The Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post as President Joe Biden has vowed to restore the Justice Department’s reputation for independence
So far in the big stimulus bill, contractors got an extension of section 3610, which gives them a sort of ongoing protection from the pandemic.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is juggling a multi-billion-dollar maintenance backlog and a growing need to completely recapitalize some of its aging facilities for a modern era.
The bill requires USPS to guarantee that at least 75% of its new fleet will be electric or zero-emission delivery trucks.
Once they're past the extra spending bill that includes pandemic relief, Congress could start to regard the regular old budget - you know, the stuff that keeps your agency going.
The Senate approved $650 million for agency cybersecurity upgrades, and another $350 million for the U.S. Digital Service and the Federal Citizen Services Fund to address workforce and other modernization needs.
The Defense Contract Management Agency is reexamining several of its past decisions to reimburse contractors. That's after the DoD inspector general found DCMA overruled the findings of incurred cost audits without adequate explanation.
In today's Federal Newscast, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz is making another push to give federal employees a raise next year.
President Joe Biden's choices to lead the Office of Management and Budget described several top priorities at their nomination hearing on Thursday, including a focus on creating a more diverse recruitment pool and inspiring more people to serve in the federal government.
Pretty much everyone thinks Congress is only marginally functional. Among the underlying challenges are the conditions under which its tens of thousands of staff members work.
Federal human capital challenges are the root cause behind two-thirds of the broad topics on the Government Accountability Office's biennial high-risk list. And while GAO removed one program from the list, some areas have regressed.
New chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee could help break the 20-year IT modernization blockade.