Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget released guidance on raising the bonus award caps for senior executives, senior level and senior professional and scientific federal employees, and recommended tying bonuses more closely to performance, including the use of smaller bonuses for specific contributions throughout the year.
Congress handed the White House and Treasury a job back in 2014: Establish a new reporting system for agency spending that would make it easier for people to see and anaylze for themselves, how the goverment spends $1 trillion every year. But the Data Act has proved difficult to implement, as documented in two recent studies from the Government Accountability Office. Paula Rascona, director of financial management and assurance issues at the GAO. joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
The U.S. Postal Service says it has "broad bipartisan support" from Congress to ease some its financial burdens. But until that time comes, USPS doesn't have much room to improve the situation it's in.
The Air Force is planning to put funds into increasing its energy resilience.
Familiar debates over the caps set in the Budget Control Act will crop again during the next administration, defense budget analyst Todd Harrison said at a press briefing marking the fifth anniversary of the 2011 law. The Defense Department has avoided many of the dire consequences it predicted would happen during 10 years of "devastating cuts." But it's used a series of workarounds to dodge many of the impacts.
Jeff Clayton, principal at Baker Tilly, discusses the implications of GSA's Transactional Data Reporting Rule, and the latest trends in government contract pricing for commercial items. August 2, 2016
The National Park Service has nearly $12 billion in maintenance backlog it needs to clear. Bob Wilbur, chief of the Park Facility Management Division, has a plan to tackle it.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) is putting pressure on government agencies to pay up for transit benefits for federal employees.
House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry says the Defense Department is already spending $6 billion it hasn't budgeted for in 2017.
September is the make-it or break-it month for contractors to do business with agencies. But is it too late for them to make some cash in the fiscal fourth?
The Pentagon will help contracting officers and vendors understand what it’s buying and who is doing the buying through a new acquisition portal.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) wants DoD to recommend to Congress what bases need to be closed and let lawmakers vote on the closures individually.
GSA awarded two task orders to ManTech and Knowledge Consulting Group to provide continuous monitoring-as-a-service and privileged management services under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program.
Even though Congress is away for seven weeks, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's not too early to worry about a government shutdown.