Management
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Federal spending never stops rising, and that's certainly true of contracts spending. The pandemic has accelerated contract spending in several categories.
January 13, 2021 -
Congress gave DoD a year to decide how to reallocate the chief management officer's responsibilities. The outgoing administration handled most of the work within 11 days.
January 13, 2021 -
The General Services Administration is keeping contractors on their toes with the release of three acquisition initiatives — Polaris, the new small business governmentwide contract, and two requests for information around emerging technology and professional services.
January 12, 2021 -
USPS awarded a contract to IDEMIA National Security Solutions to expand its fingerprinting services to 4,000 facilities before the end of 2021, in an effort to make the most of its vast network of post offices across the country.
January 12, 2021 -
Former EPA CIO Ann Dunkin urges the new leadership in the Biden administration to make GSA a cabinet level position with chief operating authority, so that it can coordinate and drive technology innovation across the federal government.
January 11, 2021 -
DHS has a new chief information security officer, while the State Department has a new chief data officer and HHS names the first chief artificial intelligence officer as these are some of the changes in the federal technology community over the last few weeks.
January 11, 2021 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted along party lines last week to cancel a form of official time union representatives have long used to help their colleagues with certain kinds of discrimination cases, but two of the agency's commissioners said the policy change won't stick in the new administration and Congress.
January 11, 2021 -
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is stepping down from his post, days after criticizing President Donald Trump over the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
January 11, 2021 -
Much of the world's palm oil comes from foreign producers that used forced labor. That's why the Department of Homeland Security banned palm oil and palm oil products from certain companies.
January 11, 2021 -
With a look ahead, Bloomberg Government Editorial Director Loren Duggan joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 11, 2021 -
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director
January 11, 2021 -
The Office of Personnel Management said Friday it would impose a temporary hiring freeze on positions in the Senior Executive Service. The move is customary during most presidential transitions, though OPM has previously given agencies more time to suspend SES hiring.
January 08, 2021 -
Employees within the Justice Department's investigative subcomponents offered mixed reviews of their organizations' responses to the COVID-19, according to a recent survey from the department's inspector general.
January 08, 2021 -
President-elect Joe Biden has introduced the governor of Rhode Island, the mayor of Boston and a small-business advocate from California as the newest members of his economic team
January 08, 2021 -
The FCC has been busy for the last several years. Now longtime chairman Ajit Pai is getting ready to make his exit.
January 08, 2021