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\"Music is just the universal language,\" said Jane Leche, the lead singer of the Fiddlin\' Foresters, the official band of the U.S. Forest Service. The musicians use old-time folk music to spread the message of nature conservation.
August 15, 2011 -
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Mackenzie Eaglen from the Heritage Foundation says the Super committee needs to think twice before making major Defense cuts.
August 12, 2011 -
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The Government Accountability Office joins a growing list of federal departments and agencies that wants to offer early retirements and voluntary separations to its employees. GAO said the move is in anticipation of a smaller 2012 budget.
August 12, 2011 -
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Facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and set up its own benefit systems. Congressional approval would be needed for these changes.
August 12, 2011 -
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On today\'s Federal Drive: USPS announced it\'s considering massive job cuts, Veterans Affairs large-scale IT contract under siege from bid protests and expanded benefits to the post-9/11 GI Bill.
August 12, 2011 -
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Getting and keeping a security clearance is vital in a growing number of federal jobs. And useful when feds retire and go into the private sector. But are those all-important clearances going to be harder to get, and keep in the future? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains. (This column was originally published on July 13, 2011.)
August 12, 2011 -
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Patricia Niehaus, national president of the Federal Managers Association, shared her experience in government in keeping the information flowing from D.C. to the field and back.
August 11, 2011 -
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Vivek Kundra ends his tenure as the federal chief information officer Aug. 12. He was the driving force behind moving agencies to cloud computing, consolidating data centers and laying down the foundation to reform information technology. But Kundra\'s biggest impact may be less about specific technologies, but reminding the government that time and process are not major barriers. August 11, 2011
August 11, 2011 -
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The Veterans Affairs Department\'s multibillion dollar IT contract is facing complaints by General Dynamics and Standard Communications. A third protestor, D&S Consultants, filed a different protest with the Court of Federal Claims. Meanwhile, VA has awarded SAIC the 15th and final spot on T4.
August 11, 2011 -
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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking about what kinds of data and how much information it should collect on the pay and benefits of federal contractor employees. OFCCP also could use the data to identify contractors who are not abiding by the 1965 Executive Order.
August 11, 2011 -
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The administration is asking for input to make government more transparent. The ideas it collects could go into an action plan that the administration will present next month at the launch of the international Open Government Partnership at the United Nations.
August 11, 2011 -
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The agency is using HUDStat sessions to set, oversee and accomplish performance goals. HUD and VA are using these meetings to ensure they are meeting their joint goal to reduce homelessness among veterans. HUD\'s Peter Grace said getting program managers to talk honestly about their challenges has been among the biggest changes.
August 11, 2011 -
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Jeff Neal is the former Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security.
August 10, 2011 -
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The list of members of Congress that will make up the \"Super Committee\" responsible for finding more than a trillion dollars in deficit cuts is filling out.
August 10, 2011
