President-elect Donald Trump will violate the terms of a contract with the federal government on Inauguration Day if he doesn't give up his ownership stake of the Washington, D.C. luxury hotel that bears his name, a General Services Administration official has determined.
Jeff Neal, former chief human resources officer at the Defense Logistics Agency, says the recently passed NDAA has implications for all federal employees.
The Office of Government Ethics responded to a letter from Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) asking about President-elect Donald Trump’s strategy to avoid a conflict of interest with his businesses.
Federal CIOs say if you want to get on board with agile services, be adaptable, communicate and don't be afraid to fail.
President Barack Obama and senior administration leaders celebrated the achievements from the federal workforce over the past eight years. In his final days in office, Obama asked federal employees to think back to the moment they decided to join public service and encouraged them to continue their work as his administration leaves and another takes its place.
For decades the government has tried to buy as one big organization to consolidate its buying power. The latest iteration of that effort is called category management. The White House and General Services Administration have settled on about a dozen categories of products and services purchased widely across government. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service , joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a progress report on the information technology category.
At the General Services Administration, a team of category managers works to establish the contract vehicles and policies for each member's particular category. One of the fastest growing type of items for federal agencies is professional services. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks to Tiffany Hixson, the GSA's professional services category executive, at the National Contract Management Association meeting in Washington.
As the network of digital devices expands around the world and becomes even more interconnected, it's up to the public and private sectors, as well as the academic community and consumers, to do their due diligence in protecting their cyber systems.
The Senate had a busy weekend, passing five major pieces of legislation that will impact veterans, inspectors general, FBI whistleblowers and others before the close of the 114th Congress.
Some critics worry about potential conflicts of interest between a Trump administration and the Trump Organization. Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what ethics rules require of any elected official.
The Veterans Health Administration has an elaborate planning process to come up with its strategic goals. Great, but headquarters might be getting in the way of the medical centers and other providers actually carrying them out. Debra Draper, director of health care issues at the Government Accountability Office, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Dave Mader, the controller, will be the second of the Office of Management and Budget's key management leaders to leave ahead of the end of the Obama administration. CMS chief data officer Niall Brennan also is moving on.
Beyond the federal scorecard, DHS and State provide details on how IT reforms are impacting their respective agencies.
The annual Defense authorization bill Congress sent to the President last week includes several provisions to redraw the Defense Department's organizational chart, including one that creates a powerful new Chief Management Officer whose primary job will be overseeing and reforming DoD headquarters functions.
Unless President-elect Donald Trump appoints two new members quickly, the Merit Systems Protection Board will likely have one voting member come March 1, when Chairman Susan Tsui Grundmann's term expires. But the upcoming seat-changes have federal employment experts wondering whether this is the beginning of the end for MSPB.