Management
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Imagine an operation in which 10,000 law enforcement people worldwide arrested a thousand violent organized criminals. That is what happened in 2021, in an operation known as Trojan Shield. A Justice Department team led the effort. Team leaders have won this year's Service to America Medal for safety, security and international affairs. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with one of them: Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Mellor.
November 02, 2023 -
As the tally of fraud and abuse in pandemic relief spending mounts, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has a reminder: Program managers have a list of leading practices for preventing fraud. The question some have for those managers is why they did not use that list.
November 01, 2023 -
At a ceremony earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented five American companies, large and small, with the department's Award for Corporate Excellence. The awards recognize companies that reflect the administration's focus areas when it comes to corporate diplomacy. To learn more about this year's awards, Federal Drive Executive Producer spoke to Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs at the State Department, Sarah Morgenthau.
November 01, 2023 -
Chief learning officers, often behind the scenes, try to ensure an agency’s workforce has the skills it needs, particularly in mission-critical areas, such as data analytics, IT and cybersecurity.
October 31, 2023 -
All agencies will see impactful results by embedding human-centered design principles in their IT modernization projects. Comprehensive collaboration between programmers, IT management staff, CX designers, trusted industry partners and government program owners is paramount for any successful CX initiative.
October 30, 2023 -
Chris Cleary, the Department of the Navy’s principal cyber advisor, is most proud of his work around the Navy’s cyberspace superiority vision and work to better protect operational technology.
October 30, 2023 -
After setting a new tone for an inclusive, agile and engaged federal workforce of the future, agency chief human capital officers are rising to the occasion to implement that vision.
October 27, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Federal employees’ demand for mental health services overseas is rising, but help for them is spread thin. HHS surpasses targets for hiring military spouses. And bid protests spiked in fiscal 2022.
October 27, 2023 -
Somebody had to actually write the trillion dollar infrastructure bill back in 2021. Its proponents expect it to help modernize old bridges and highways, among other things. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guests helped Congress craft the bill. Now they're leading the Transportation Department team helping to implement it. For their work, they won this year's Service to America medal for management excellence. Gloria Shepherd is Executive Director of the Federal Highway Administration and Maria Lefevre is the Executive Director of the Office of the Undersecretary of Transportation.
October 26, 2023 -
You might not know him by name, but Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest oversees an operation that touches thousands of federal employees. He has also worked facilities, operations and budget analysis across the government. Now he's among the new members of the National Academy of Public Administration: Byron Adkins.
October 26, 2023 -
In the endless quest for talent, federal contractors sometimes use foreign employees. A long-running program called E-verify lets employers confirm such potential employees are eligible to work in the United States. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that agencies are not consistent in checking the E-verify system, as part of their contractor oversight.
October 25, 2023 -
Several agencies will get a part of $155 million from the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council. The money is aimed at helping agencies improve how they review and decide on applications for infrastructure construction.
October 25, 2023 -
Federal facilities in three more states will be able to buy carbon free electricity as the government expands the availability of this energy to its facilities to achieve its sustainability goals and propel this type of clean energy.
October 25, 2023 -
DHS wants to make sure employees at the Counter Weapons Office of Mass Destruction stay feds, even if Congress lets the office's authority terminate.
October 24, 2023 -
She spent 20 years as a revenue officer at the IRS. Then she went into union work, serving for 14 years as president of a local in Wisconsin. Now she's the new national president of the National Treasury Employees Union.
October 24, 2023