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Biden's $6 trillion for fiscal 2022 includes more than $100 billion increase in the so called discretionary spending to operate the government itself.
June 01, 2021 -
The Biden administration is asking for a 2.4% increase and a 14% increase in federal IT and cybersecurity spending, respectively, in fiscal 2022.
June 01, 2021 -
The Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to leverage the advances made in federal customer experience over the past several years to advance racial equity and strengthen trust in government.
May 31, 2021 -
The administration’s first full budget request it released Friday would give the IRS $13.2 billion, a more than 10% increase for current levels.
May 31, 2021 -
The Postal Service sent its first reduction in force notices to non-union management employees, while the Senate confirmed Biden's third USPS board pick.
May 28, 2021 -
The budget gets rid of the overseas contingency operations account and divests $2.8 billion in legacy systems.
May 28, 2021 -
The Biden administration will recommend a 2.7% federal pay raise for civilian federal employees in 2022. The president's budget request also outlines a few steps agencies will take to recruit more young talent and improve federal internships.
May 28, 2021 -
One historian just authored a book that tells us how the Postal Service enabled the settling of the West in a historically short time. Author Cameron Blevins discussed his research on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 28, 2021 -
Cleaning up hazardous chemicals, unexploded munitions from military bases not likely to wrap up soonLast March a DoD task force report found that the number of installations where the department is investigating PFAS exposure rose from 401 to 651 as of the end of fiscal 2019.
May 27, 2021 -
A new bill aims to fix what lawmakers see as holes in the legal protections for whistleblowers. Among other things, it would give whistleblowers claiming retaliation access to jury trials if the Merit Systems Protection Board drags its feet.
May 27, 2021 -
The Office of Personnel Management named a new chief management officer and has several senior leadership positions open, as it reorganizes some of its offices and rebrands its diversity and inclusion program.
May 27, 2021 -
Not one but two bills would add vim and vigor to the Whistleblower Protection Act as it applies to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
May 27, 2021 -
Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the clearance jobs market, including the ability of some cleared professionals to work remotely from home.
May 27, 2021 -
Industry and Congress say real progress has been made on the security clearance backlog, but they want to see the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and other departments move with more speed to transform an outdated process.
May 27, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Veterans Affairs' inspector general said the agency initially underestimated the costs of physical infrastructure upgrades needed to support its new electronic health record.
May 26, 2021