Karen Lee, who spent the last seven years in the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Financial Management, joined the Universal Service Administrative Company as a vice president for rural healthcare.
Last year the Internal Revenue Service showed improved telephone customer service, and close to 300 million visits to the Where's My Refund? site. Agency leadership and advocates say those are just two examples of why the tax agency needs full funding in FY2018.
A 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency's budget in fiscal 2018 would force EPA to cut nearly 4,000 full time equivalent employees, begin cost-saving IT modernization projects and reduce the agency's physical footprint. New budget documents describe funding levels and policy decisions at EPA that would support the President's 2018 budget request.
Although the Trump administration has been filling itself in, the General Services Administration is still lacking an administrator and commissioners for its big services. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what this all means.
U.S. Customs and Immigration Services conducts millions of Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) checks each year. But the program has some big holes. Rebecca Gambler, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office, fills in the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
A majority of federal employees who took a Federal News Radio survey said they believe Congress will make good on President Donald Trump's proposed civilian agency cuts for fiscal 2018.
Three senior Air Force generals urged lawmakers to pass a complete budget, warning that another continuing resolution would have consequences for the Air Force so dire that all training missions would be grounded for two months.
The Office of Personnel Management didn't have a decision-making policy in place to help it decide when and how to offer identity theft and credit monitoring services to victims of the 2015 cyber breaches. More than a year later, the agency still doesn't have a plan.
One of the original backers of the spending data standardization law, Warner wants to ensure agencies are still complying with the transparency law.
Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, calls the new White House Office of American Innovation as a timely, strategic and necessary effort.
Amid a growing emphasis on efficiency from the Trump administration, some agencies are beginning to find new savings by retooling cumbersome customer service processes and modernizing legacy systems.
Heading toward April, the Trump administration was operating on several fronts, following the withdrawal of Republican-led legislation revising health care law.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says that on the heels of the hiring freeze, there are fears that layoffs may be in the future.
Cybersecurity experts from federal agencies and industry say the best defense starts with basic "blocking and tackling," and then a layer of ad lib to throw off hackers who are reading from the same cyber defense cookbooks.
According to budget documents that Federal News Radio obtained, the Food and Drug Administration would see $40 million in cuts to employee salaries and administrative expenses during the last five months of fiscal 2017. The Homeland Security Department would lose $41 million for the Financial Systems Modernization program, a shared services effort affiliated with the Interior Department's Interior Business Center.