Management
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The Small Business Administration is planning to shed the equivalent of more than 3,400 full-time employees as part of its budget request for fiscal 2023.
March 30, 2022 -
The administration, as part of its fiscal 2023 budget request, expects the money would fund an expansion of USPS delivery capacity in underserved areas and support for vote-by-mail, including making ballots postage-free and reducing the cost of other election-related mail for jurisdictions and voters.
March 29, 2022 -
About 30,000 active duty service members in the last 20 years have died by suicide. Now DARPA seeks to prevent this by working upstream from conscious thoughts.
March 29, 2022 -
Even though a new survey shows that trust in the federal government is low, agencies have an opportunity to strengthen Americans’ perception of the institution.
March 29, 2022 -
More spending does not necessarily equal better security. As they work to secure our nation's digital infrastructure better, federal organizations must not waste billions of taxpayer dollars on reactive cybersecurity solutions that, in the private sector, have left many organizations with less security and more complex tools to manage.
March 29, 2022 -
Hiring people by their demonstrated capabilities, instead of what they boast on their resumes. It's catching on at executive branch agencies. It even has a name: Subject-Matter Expert Qualification Assessment.
March 29, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bi-partisan group of Senators are taking aim at organizational conflicts of interest among federal contractors.
March 29, 2022 -
The Defense Department is asking Congress for a $773 billion budget in 2023, which it says is crucial to continuing its concept of “integrated deterrence” — using weapons in multiple domains to project power — as it continues to identify China as the main threat to the United States.
March 28, 2022 -
The Army will continue to decrease its active duty force to 473,000.
March 28, 2022 -
The Biden administration is planning to move the FBI’s headquarters out of the District of Columbia and build a new campus in suburban Virginia or Maryland.
March 28, 2022 -
The budget request outlines a "strategic shift" in federal cybersecurity efforts after incidents like SolarWinds and Log4j.
March 28, 2022 -
The great flywheel of appropriations gets a big shove today with release of the administration's 2023 budget request, six months before fiscal 2023 actually starts.
March 28, 2022 -
You might not think of farm and urban in the same sentence. But the Agriculture Department does. In fact there's a new federal advisory committee designed to help the department better understand the needs of urban farmers.
March 28, 2022 -
The administration is asking Congress for $1.58 trillion for defense and non-defense discretionary accounts, $70 billion more than fiscal 2022 enacted appropriations.
March 28, 2022 -
A crucial part of the State Department has a new head of crucial function at a time of high world tension.
March 28, 2022