Federal Newscast
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In today's Federal Newscast, the House passes the VA MISSION Act, which would give the Veterans Affairs Department a long-awaited alternative to the Choice program and consolidates all seven community care programs.
May 17, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, wary of another last-minute budget deal, seven Republican senators asked Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to expedite floor consideration of funding bills and nominees before the end of the fiscal year.
May 16, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program and the Cloud Security Alliance announce the creation of FedSTAR to offer mutual recognition between the two security programs.
May 15, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a rule allowing Veterans Affairs providers to administer healthcare across state lines using virtual technology becomes finalized.
May 14, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office finds 75 percent of the Defense Department's IDIQ type contracts were only open to a single contractor.
May 11, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast on Federal News Radio, the House Armed Services Committee kills a proposal aimed at exposing more details about government officials’ travel on military aircraft.
May 10, 2018 -
Officials from the Homeland Security Department tell lawmakers the agency is working across government to figure out consequences for not following the binding operational directive.
May 09, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies must give employees a chance to respond to the adverse action findings before including the incident in a permanent record.
May 08, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a policy update from the U.S. Postal Service emphasized its preference for so-called clustered box units in new housing developments, instead of door-to-door.
May 07, 2018 -
OMB announced the comments could not be located in response to a public records request.
May 04, 2018 -
What an irony: In the age of automation, digital services, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development itself stubbornly remains a craft-like, hit-or-miss process.
May 03, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Energy Department's Inspector General finds the agency's Chief Financial Officer moved too much money over to the Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability account.
May 03, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Special Counsel found that FCC Commissioner Michael O'Reilly violated the Hatch Act stumping for conservative candidates during a speech.
May 02, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two organizations are suing the Veterans Affairs Department over the White House's decision to appoint Defense Undersecretary Robert Wilkie to be acting VA secretary.
May 01, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie urges Congress to take action to permanently fund the Veterans Choice program.
April 30, 2018