Management

  • Steve Vinsik, vice president and partner, Global Security Solutions for Unisys Corporation, joins host John Gilroy to talk about biometrics, border protection, air cargo, and telework. January 3, 2012

    January 03, 2012
  • Pressure is growing on agencies to draft formal succession plans. There\'s good reason to believe more feds retired in late 2011 than in recent years, although the final count is not yet out.

    January 03, 2012
  • Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, posited on his blog that the Defense Department\'s soon-to-be-released budget cuts will almost certainly involve changes to its pay and benefits structure. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the plan.

    January 03, 2012
  • How can agencies reduce inefficiencies and redundancies without significantly impacting their core missions? Hear what Robin Lineberger, John Powers and JoAnne Boutelle have to say about Merger, Acquisition and Restructuring strategies to aid Federal leaders.

    January 03, 2012
  • Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that despite proposed cuts, Pentagon will still be able to fight one major conflict at a time.

    January 03, 2012
  • Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA\'s many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.

    January 02, 2012
  • DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Alan Bersin had been appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the department\'s first assistant secretary of international affairs. Bersin, who served as the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in a recess appointment, resigned last month after Congress adjourned without voting to confirm his appointment.

    January 02, 2012
  • When it comes to shoveling it, official Washington is years ahead of anybody else. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this applies to snow-day policy matters too.

    December 30, 2011
  • The year can be summed up by a trio of showdowns, said Peter Schroeder, a staff writer with The Hill newspaper, in an interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. The near-government shutdown in April, the August debt ceiling showdown and the last-minute wrangling over the payroll tax cut.

    December 29, 2011
  • Davis retired after 42 years in government. She said she\'s tried to live by a few basic principles, get the job done, get it done right and get it done on time.

    December 29, 2011
  • President Barack Obama has promised to end homelessness among veterans within three years. He\'s made it a high-priority goal, challenging agencies to meet it without additional resources or laws. Officials say they\'re on track thanks to a unique collaboration between two agencies and dozens of local partners is focusing on the toughest cases.

    December 29, 2011
  • The Energy Department is one of six agencies testing a framework aimed at revamping one of the thorniest issues in government: how supervisors evaluate employees. Chief Human Capital Officer Mike Kane led a working group of more than 100 union, management and government representatives who drafted the framework. He earned the \"Chief Human Capital Officer of the Year\" award from the CHCO Council.

    December 28, 2011
  • Beginning Jan. 1, the department will discontinue paper U.S. savings bonds in favor of an all-electronic format. The move has been planned for a number of months, but Treasury \"reiterated\" the move this week with an announcement on its website and a timeline presenting the 76-year history of the bonds.

    December 28, 2011
  • Robert Dacey, the Government Accountability Office\'s chief accountant, breaks down the reasons why GAO was unable to render an opinion on the federal government\'s consolidated financial report.

    December 28, 2011