Management

  • Some federal agency credit unions are offering short-term loan programs as the country nears the Aug. 2 deadline of defaulting on its debt.

    July 29, 2011
  • The Pentagon is taking its approach to audit readiness far more seriously than it has in the past, but achieving its goal of clean books by 2017 will take several more years of sustained commitment, DoD\'s CFO said Thursday.

    July 29, 2011
  • Two chief human capital officers say Millenials - people born in 1980 or later - bring passion and enthusiasm to the federal workplace but also require guidance and mentorship.

    July 29, 2011
  • August 1st, August 3rd, and August 4th 2011 Gibbs oversees the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Human Resources Administration, Administration for Children\'s Services, Homeless Services, Aging, Health and Hospitals Corporation, Correction, Probation, Juvenile Justice, Office of Health Insurance Access, and the HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council.

    July 29, 2011
  • FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt gave Federal News Radio an update on the furloughs and disrupted construction projects as the partial FAA shutdown ended its first full week. Babbitt assailed the \"political fight\" in Congress that left the agency without funding beginning last Friday.

    July 29, 2011
  • The Postal Regulatory Commission is scheduling public hearings on the Postal Service\'s plan to consider shutting down nearly 3,700 post offices nationwide.

    July 29, 2011
  • Steve Bell, the senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the ramifications for agencies.

    July 29, 2011
  • Contractors fear late or nonexistent payment from the government if the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. government defaults, a number of industry experts have said recently. Contractors are required to continue work even if there is a delay in payment from the government.

    July 29, 2011
  • Your agency\'s data will have a lot more eyeballs on it very soon, get some advice to keep that data clean from Dermot O\'Mahony, Vice President of Market and Product Planning, LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

    July 28, 2011
  • Carol Bonosaro joined the Federal Drive to discuss how senior executives in government are helping to boost morale as the federal workforce faces the threat of furloughs, pay freezes and possible shutdowns. She called the current wrangling over raising the debt limit and the uncertainty surrounding it \"uncharted territory\" for feds.

    July 28, 2011
  • The General Services Administration has become the first federal agency to move its entire workforce to a cloud-based email product. GSA said it moved all 17,000 of its users all at one time, but it couldn\'t have pulled off the transition without months of planning, training and preparation.

    July 28, 2011
  • The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on the best way to dispose of nearly 90,000 vacant or underutilized federal properties. While some lawmakers see property sales as a way to generate cash, it\'s not clear how much the properties are actually worth.

    July 28, 2011
  • The Vice Chiefs cited 10 years of war and a high level of operational activity as the major drivers behind the Pentagon\'s readiness shortfall.

    July 27, 2011
  • How will the debt ceiling debate stalemate affect the nation\'s credit ratings? The Bipartisan Policy Center\'s Jay Powell gives his analysis.

    July 27, 2011