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Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work says the Pentagon is making plans in case Congress cannot reach a budget deal or continuing resolution before Sept. 30.
September 25, 2015 -
A blue-ribbon commission's review of the Mitre Corporation's audit of the Department of Veterans Affairs says if the agency doesn't push for sweeping reforms with Congress' help, the VA can expect more of the same scandals that put it under the microscope in 2014.
September 24, 2015 Federal agencies are preparing plans now for a possible shutdown next week. One of the elements of those plans is which employees are essential and which ones aren't. Larry Allen is the President of Allen Federal Business Partners. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose employees aren't the only ones who should find out as soon as possible if they're essential.
September 24, 2015-
“Shutdown” is too coarse a word for what happens during a funding lapse. The government acts more as a patchwork. For employees, the challenge is knowing who will also be on the job.
September 21, 2015 -
Industry stakeholders told the Government Accountability Office they are concerned about global interoperability with the Next Generation Air Transportation Systems and how modernization efforts around the world have been hampered due to constrained resources.
September 10, 2015 -
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro joked that in trying to make HUD a better place to work, he could do little to change the appearance of the headquarters building, reports Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
September 09, 2015 -
Conference negotiators on the 2016 Defense Authorization Act will convene shortly as Congress comes back from its summer recess. The Defense Department is reviewing the results of base realignment and closure in Europe as it continues to make the case again for another round of BRAC stateside. Michael O'Hanlon, co-director and senior Fellow for Foreign Policy of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, wrote about BRAC in the National Interest magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose he's not sure prospects for a round of BRAC are much different now than they have been the past few years.
September 08, 2015 -
The Pentagon has proposed base closures for the past four years, and Congress keeps saying no. Among the most costly defense activities is maintaining some 1,000 bases, camps and airfields around the world. How did DoD wind up with so many bases overseas in the first place? David Vine is an associate professor of anthropology at American University and author of "Base Nation: How Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World." He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer some insight into how the military could rationalize some of this real estate.
August 28, 2015 -
The Coast Guard is seeing many of its projects growing into programs of record with acquisition plans and contracts that are both on schedule and on budget thanks to a new strategy.
August 25, 2015 -
Some simple tips and tools can solve most of the problems that employees with disabilities have in open offices. Others can use them too. The story begins below the photo gallery.
August 25, 2015 -
As federal agencies consolidate and rehab their offices, more and more of them are choosing open designs with little or no partitions between colleagues. A Federal News Radio survey last month showed many employees hate to see private offices, or even cubicles, disappear in favor of working in close quarters. None more so than people with disabilities, as Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp reports.
August 25, 2015 -
The lack of privacy and quiet is a nuisance to many federal employees. But those with disabilities see the trend toward shared office space in much starker terms.
August 24, 2015 A new IBM Center for The Business of Government report says CIOs lack understanding for innovation metrics, which could grow their operations if used.
August 24, 2015-
Agencies are dragging their employees kicking and screaming into open offices, as a Federal News Radio survey uncovered last month. The most wary ones are people with disabilities who need special accommodations to work. Ned Holland is the assistant secretary for administration at Health and Human Services. He tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp that HHS is rapidly consolidating its buildings under a White House directive. As it does so, it's turning to open offices.
August 21, 2015 -
A former federal police officer has been charged with trying to manufacture meth inside a federal laboratory in Maryland.
August 18, 2015