Management
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Federal employees who need to certify their vaccination status under a new policy instituted by President Joe Biden intended to encourage COVID-19 shots will false disciplinary action and potentially criminal prosecution if they lie on the form
August 06, 2021 -
Two of President Joe Biden’s picks to serve on the USPS Board of Governors pushed back strongly on USPS plans to slow first-class mail and about a third of first-class packages.
August 06, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, in a new advisory, the NSA laid out best practices for securing wireless devices in public settings.
August 06, 2021 -
For several years, agency acquisition shops have been getting more comfortable with buying outside of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
August 06, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Navy surgeon general says he favor a vaccine mandate for military members.
August 05, 2021 -
As detailed as solicitations and procurement rules might be, protests are a regular part of the federal contracting scene. Joseph Petrillo, attorney at the law firm Smith Pachter McWhorter, provided some analysis on the topic.
August 05, 2021 -
In an analysis of 15 years of Best Places to Work agency scores, researchers from the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group made what they called a business case for strong employee engagement.
August 05, 2021 -
Biniam Gebre has spent the last four years working for Accenture Federal Services leading the management consulting division.
August 04, 2021 -
Rebuilding the federal workforce -- and the Office of Personnel Management itself -- is the top priority for the agency's new director, Kiran Ahuja.
August 04, 2021 -
Soraya Correa recently retired from public service on July 31 after spending the last six as the chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security.
August 04, 2021 -
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it easy to forget that pandemics happen a lot more often than every 100 years. A case in point is the terrifying Ebola outbreak in 2014.
August 04, 2021 -
Tom Temin spoke to James Balocki, the acting principal deputy assistant Secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, at the Sea Air Space conference.
August 04, 2021 -
The Pentagon says one of its police officers has died after being stabbed during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene
August 03, 2021 -
The Postal Service, as an independent agency, is setting its own rules on masks and vaccines apart from the rest of the federal workforce, but is seeing an uptick in employees who need to quarantine as the delta variant of COVID-19 presents new challenges for the agency.
August 03, 2021 -
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to announce a reset in labor relations with its union, following a Biden administration executive order that restored collective bargaining and official time.
August 03, 2021