Budget

  • Things are looking up for the TSP in September. Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs at the Thrift Savings Board, joined Chris Dorobek on The Dorobek Insider to talk about the numbers and the positive…

    October 05, 2010
  • OMB created CyberScope to streamline the reporting process, enhance analysis, and importantly, reduce the $2.3 billion Feds spend annually on compliance. So why is no one using it? We ask McAfee\'s Ed White.

    October 05, 2010
  • How to you inspire young people to go into science? If you\'re the head of the NIH, you sing to them! NIH Director Francis Collins demonstrates.

    October 05, 2010
  • Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 gives the administration-elect better access to feds. John Palguta has details.

    October 05, 2010
  • Learn more from a recent OMB Watch report

    October 04, 2010
  • Ellen Herbst, Director, National Technical Information Service and Lieutenant Commander Holly D. Jablonski, Chief, Officer Recruiting Branch about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration October 1, 2010 (Encore presentation)

    October 04, 2010
  • Reform is on the way for the FPS, an agency responsible for security at over 9,000 federal facilities and courthouses. AFGE\'s David Wright says the move is very welcome for his members.

    October 04, 2010
  • The first electric vehicle joined the Postal Service fleet in 1899, more than 100 years ago, after proving to be more efficient than a horse and buggy. USPS\'s Sam Pulcrano tells us how that tradition carries on today.

    October 04, 2010
  • The Postal Service is reeling from the decision by the Postal Rate Commission not to increase the price to mail a letter. USPS was hoping to use the rate hike to help close the $7 billion deficit it faces this year. The service continues to face reduced volume, more people using the Internet and legal barriers to changing key parts of its business mode.

    October 04, 2010
  • The agency purchased more than 9,000 alternative fuel cars in 2010 and plans more in 2011 and beyond. GSA estimates $40 million in savings and the prevention of 340 million pounds of greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere over the next seven years because of the purchases.

    October 04, 2010
  • A Federal News Radio survey of federal employees and contractors found most are optimistic about reducing the government\'s carbon footprint, but not many believe the efforts are making a difference. About 40 percent of the respondents say President Obama\'s executive order to reduce energy usage is a lot of talk and not a lot of action, and 73 percent are not familiar with their agency\'s sustainability plan.

    October 04, 2010
  • Keith Campbell, author of \"The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement,\" discusses how to work with and manage people who feel entitled.

    October 01, 2010
  • During chemical, biological, and radiological/nuclear atmospheric releases, the more information available about which way the wind is blowing, the better. To that end, WeatherBug, DHS and DOE are working together. Details from WeatherBug\'s Bill Callahan.

    October 01, 2010
  • Congressman Henry Cuellar\'s homeland security bill to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assess the efficiency of homeland security grants is about to become law. He explains how it will work.

    October 01, 2010