Federal Newscast
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In today's Federal Newscast, three federal agencies launch a new network to quickly relay information about individuals considered a threat to police officers.
May 22, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bill that would limit the authority agencies have to give bonuses to bad-behaving federal employees has cleared its first congressional step.
May 19, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, following the massive WannaCry ransomware cyber attack, a group of senators introduced legislation to set up a board to regulate disclosures of hardware and software vulnerabilities discovered by federal agencies.
May 18, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, state and local governments, non-profits, universities, and other recipients of federal money, get more time to align their procurement standards with the Office of Management and Budget's changing oversight rules.
May 17, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the White House says the WannaCry ransomware that has reached dozens of countries, was not able to penetrate federal cyber defenses, and also defends the NSA.
May 16, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Congressional Budget Office gives agency budget directors a bit of good news.
May 15, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Senior Executives Association releases a new Strategic Direction which lays out how it will prepare for the federal workforce of the 21st Century.
May 12, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, DoD's inspector general found the department complied with only one of the six requirements of the act by reporting improper payment rates of less than 10 percent.
May 11, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue wants to make sure his employees keep citizens' rights in mind while conducting agency business.
May 10, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, after the late night comedian ran a segment on the Federal Communication Commission's planned changes to its net neutrality policy, the agency's CIO says it faced a massive distributed denial of service attack.
May 09, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration 's Inspector General says the agency missed one of its major goals for reducing improper payments.
May 08, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, two senior Republican lawmakers have called for reassurances from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that is not interfering with its employees’ communications with members of Congress.
May 05, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is interested in why the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's outgoing director is taking an international training trip weeks before retirement.
May 04, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Defense Department is rescinding a policy which let graduates pursuing careers in professional sports defer their military service.
May 03, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Follow the Rules Act gets through the House. The legislation tidies up a few loopholes in laws protecting whistleblowers at federal agencies.
May 02, 2017