Agency Oversight
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A long-awaited reform bill that would save the Postal Service about $50 billion over the next decade took a major step forward in Congress.
February 08, 2022 -
More than two dozen people were killed, including eight children, when Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire during a Sunday service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017.
February 07, 2022 -
The IRS will transition away from using facial recognition technology to help taxpayers create online accounts with the agency.
February 07, 2022 -
On this episode, we talk with Federal Deputy CIO, Maria Roat, about the President’s Management Agenda and then catch up with Tim Smith, President of OnPoint Consulting about innovation in the federal market.
February 07, 2022 -
Citizen satisfaction with government services fell again last year. In fact, the satisfaction index fell to the lowest point since measurement started back in 1999. Here with the details, the director of research for the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Forrest Morgeson.
February 07, 2022 -
The Postal Service’s best shot at a long-term legislative reform in recent years is finally moving ahead in Congress next week.
February 04, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, immigration judges would no longer be part of the Justice Department, if a bill introduced in the House passes.
February 04, 2022 -
The Biden administration is in the market for greener sources of electricity for the federal government, a significant step in a decades-long plan set into motion by a recent executive order.
February 04, 2022 -
The name SolarWinds has become synonymous with a scary cybersecurity crisis. It's one of at least two widescale breaches to which the government had to respond. The other is when hackers showed they could get into and take over Microsoft Exchange Server. The Government Accountability Office took a look at the federal response to these two incidents.
February 02, 2022 -
One of the great parlor games in federal procurement is adding up the number of award protests every year. But because of the way the Government Accountability Office compiles the numbers, it's hard to understand the real patterns. This is the topic of a recently published paper.
February 02, 2022 -
A federal appeals court, for the second time in two weeks, is striking down a Federal Labor Relations Authority decision that set a higher bar for when agencies needed to negotiate with their unions.
February 01, 2022 -
NASA, famously and consistently the best place to work in government, has an urgent need to transform itself and how it operates. That's the principal finding of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, in its latest annual report to Congress. For highlights, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to the panel chair, Dr. Patricia Sanders.
February 01, 2022 -
The agency cites a lack of employee availability throughout the pandemic as a major factor behind these persistent challenges.
February 01, 2022 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is about to launch a program called the Deferred Subject Matter…
January 31, 2022 -
The White House revised cybersecurity metrics for agencies this year, with a major focus on multifactor authentication, security testing, and cyber workforce.
January 31, 2022