When the Obama administration transfers 12 terabytes of data to the National Archives and Records Administration, it'll underscore the importance of federal records and records management. Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Rob Efrus of Efrus Federal Advisors, for some insight.
Across the cabinet agencies, 10 chief information officers are politically appointed. The question continues to come up every four years whether these senior IT executives need to be career or political.
The White House has a goal: to improve upon the 2008 presidential transition, widely acknowledged as the smoothest exchange of power between administrations in U.S. history.
The 2017 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidance to agencies redefines what constitutes a major cyber incident for a third time in the last decade.
If Senior Correspondent Mike Causey promised to deliver a copy of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to manage the federal workforce, would you pay $100?
The White House wants nearly $12 billion to keep extra troops in Afghanistan and to continue the fight against the Islamic State. Some members of Congress think the request isn't enough.
For all the rancor of the 2016 presidential campaign, officials working behind the scenes in the presidential transition say the outgoing Obama administration will do everything in its power to ensure a seamless handover to President-elect Donald Trump.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) plans to continue his fight for the federal workforce, after winning re-election. He'll join his fellow Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly and Republican Barbara Comstock for the 115th Congress, in which he says he's looking to raise federal pay and assure fairness on oversight investigations.
Lisa Schlosser, the federal deputy chief information officer, called it a career on Nov. 9 after more than 30 years in government.
More veterans trust the department now than they did two years ago, the Veterans Affairs Department said in a new report detailing its progress on Secretary Bob McDonald's myVA Transformation.
Ray Mabus became the longest-serving Navy secretary since Josephus Daniels, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary during the first world war.
The election may be over, but federal employees still face uncertainty on a number of key issues, not least of which is how the government will be funded.
No one ever said program management was easy. Especially in aerospace and defense. If it was, the Defense Department wouldn't be dealing with persistent cost and schedule overruns decade after decade. But a new analysis by Deloitte finds that the rate of cost overruns has declined a lot. Robin Lineberger, a Deloitte Consulting principal, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
The Peace Corps has made a lot of progress in recent years boosting the numbers of people who sign up. Yet it has persistent problems with internal operations and in training and safety of its far flung volunteers. Peace Corps Inspector General Kathy Buller joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the latest annual IG report detailing these issues.
President-elect Donald Trump didn’t provide too many details about his federal technology and management policies or plans during the campaign. Here are five areas where he was more explicit about what his management agenda would include.