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The 174-page bill, which the House passed earlier this week along party lines, expands federal employee whistleblower protections and updates the 80-year-old Hatch Act. It will likely face a tough path forward in an equally divided Senate.
December 10, 2021 -
The Biden administration isn't waiting for Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from federal buildings.
December 10, 2021 -
What promises to be a long accounting for the federal response to the pandemic, it's already underway.
December 10, 2021 -
Roger Waldron, of the Coalition for Government Procurement, writes that the obsessive focus on the price over the solution delivered is a direct threat to the President's Management Agenda’s goals.
December 10, 2021 -
Vid Desai, FDA’s chief information officer, said the new Office of Digital Transformation will improve their ability to govern more effectively, reduce the duplication and the fragmentation of technology initiatives.
December 10, 2021 -
Soraya Correa, former chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security joins host Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to discuss her long career in the federal government, and the keys to being an effective leader.
December 10, 2021 -
The Biden administration said it won't enforce the provisions of the president's federal contractor vaccine mandate while a nationwide preliminary injunction is in place. More federal employees continue to get vaccinated, according to new data from the Office of Management and Budget.
December 09, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is looking for artists to spruce up a new headquarters for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
December 09, 2021 -
The Biden administration is setting a decades-long vision to eliminate carbon emissions from federal buildings and its fleet of vehicles.
December 09, 2021 -
A disabled veteran-owned training contractor found out that you can do better protesting an award in the Court of Federal Claims rather than with the Government Accountability Office.
December 08, 2021 -
Federal News Network conducted an anonymous, unscientific, online survey of readers who largely indicated they would close out year two of the pandemic with either the same amount time off or more than what they had at the end of 2020.
December 08, 2021 -
The latest continuing resolution will keep the government funded somehow until Feb. 18. But it means any fresh initiatives won't have a chance to get underway until March at the earliest.
December 07, 2021 -
The OMB memo sets a tone for cooperation as legislation to strengthen the independence and authority makes its way through Congress.
December 07, 2021 -
Syracuse University Professor Henry Lambright recently penned a report, which draws on insights from recent and past NASA Administrators to chart how leaders have passed the torch toward enabling machine and human space exploration of Mars, and its long term impact on strategic priorities for the space program. I recently had the chance to speak with him about what he found.
December 06, 2021 -
The continuing resolution for funding the government runs until February 18.
December 06, 2021