A package of oversight bills was voted out of the House during the early days of the 115th Congress. Some of the bills are similar to previous legislation that didn't make it out of the last session. The bills include more access to information for government watchdogs, as well as protections for whistleblowers.
Congress is considering privatizing the national air traffic control system as one way to help pay for the modernization of aviation infrastructure. Lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office to analyze privatized air traffic control in other nations. Gerald Dillingham, GAO’s director of civil aviation issues, tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin Congress will have a lot of potential pitfalls to think through before it presses ahead with privatization.
A final rule from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires federal agencies to increase their workforce to include more people with disabilities, and provide them personal assistance if needed.
Facing an aging workforce and unanswered questions over the legality of some of its work, Justice Department leaders will have several challenging problems to deal with in the new year.
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday on its rules package for the 115th Congress, which reinstates a little-known provision from previous congressional sessions. The "Holman Rule" lets lawmakers offer amendments to appropriations packages on the House floor, which could cut an agency's spending, the number of its employees or a person's salary.
Are fingerprints better than passwords for securing government systems? That's what the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is trying to determine.
The National Archives and Records Administration is proposing a rule that clarifies public disclosure of presidential records, and the rights of a current and former president to allow that publication, or to block it.
The Secret Service has taken significant, wide-ranging and important actions to transform the way it does business, according to recent study.
President-elect Donald Trump watched four F-35s fly over the Army-Navy Game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Forty-eight hours later, he fired off a tweet that would cost the company that built the F-35 nearly $4 billion.
The Education Department's College Scorecard aims to give students and their families the most current data on colleges and universities. The information includes everything from location and size, to what a salary might be for a particular program and skillset a student might want to pursue.
Telework can be a helpful tool for work-life balance, but that doesn't mean working from home is an excuse to give the babysitter the day off.
Guest columnist Ken Gold examines how President-elect Donald Trump will build up the armed forces, reduce the deficit and cut taxes, as he promised.
The Homeland Security Department and FBI published a Joint Analysis Report detailing the Russian cyber attacks of 2015-16, as well as best practices and mitigation strategies for organizations to apply to protect themselves from future hacks.
The Office of Personnel Management is expanding its definition of "diversity." It wants agencies to not only think about and study race, national origin and gender but also differences in age, experience and perspective. The goal is to get top agency leaders to think about diversity and inclusion as an enterprise-wide challenge, not just a human capital issue.
Cybsersecurity, customer service, even deep space exploration are on the list of federal agencies' Performance.gov goals in fiscal 2016-17.