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The Postal Service went through “extraordinary measures” to deliver mail-in ballots to voters and election boards on time in fall 2020. Now it’s agreed to continue with those practices for federal elections through at least 2028.
December 17, 2021 -
Jordan Burris, the former chief of staff in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer, explains why the customer experience executive order needs to drive new thinking around identity management.
December 17, 2021 -
Smithsonian Institution staff told lawmakers Thursday of the need to account for extreme weather events in building maintenance and future capital projects.
December 17, 2021 -
A few of the nagging challenges agencies really need to get squared away in 2022.
December 17, 2021 -
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee introduced new legislation that would require regular reports from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the cost, schedule and performance of its massive electronic health records modernization project.
December 16, 2021 -
The National Academy of Public Administration led a detailed review of the sexual assault and sexual harassment problems at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
December 16, 2021 -
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, part of the Transportation Department, has suspended a program that puts students at sea for a year. That followed reports of sexual assault of students aboard commercial vessels.
December 16, 2021 -
The Biden administration is moving at a snail's pace to staff itself — slower, in fact, than the last three administrations.
December 15, 2021 -
Deputy Comptroller for Enterprise Data and Business Performance Gregory Little considers this the right time to be in DoD financial management as staff are transitioning from scorekeeper roles to ones of more strategic value-added business partners.
December 15, 2021 -
Two senators remain concerned these agencies haven’t done more to tighten the flow of drugs, such as fentanyl, from coming into the United States, despite championing legislation that gives them the tools to do so.
December 14, 2021 -
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council has a new operational mandate, and it's been discussing "future of work" policies and challenges on an almost weekly basis with the Office of Personnel Management.
December 14, 2021 -
Long-time data guru Tom Beach joins the FDA while GSA shuffles some seats after Carlton Shufflebarger retires after 37 years in government.
December 13, 2021 -
The final executive order contains many of the same elements from a draft version of the executive order that Federal News Network obtained last month.
December 13, 2021 -
Each year the holiday buying season brings in a raft of phony and counterfeit goods into the country. And each year Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center works to stop them.
December 13, 2021 -
A group of scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory has teamed up with Northwestern University and Dow Chemical Company to modernize how polyurethane is made and handled.
December 13, 2021