The Smithsonian National Zoo celebrates the first birthday of panda cub Bei Bei with a host of treats and ceremonies.
The General Services Administration held a reverse auction to set up contracts for five agencies to buy more than 45,000 laptops, desktops as part of a centralized procurement.
Federal agencies could soon face a new governmentwide guidance on how they respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, following a meeting in September.
Hurricane hunting by aircraft has been both the job and the passion of James McFadden for most of his 50-year federal career. He's chief of programs and projects at the Aircraft Operations Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He's also a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. He talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the honor.
For years, the mentor-protégé program at the Small Business Administration paired large, established businesses with small, disadvantaged companies to improve the little guys' chances of winning federal contracts. Now the SBA has finalized a major revision to the mentor-protégé rules. Ken Dodds, director of planning and liaison in the government contracting office at SBA, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what the changes mean.
NPS is working to build accessibility into the culture despite the unique challenges posed by the nature of the agency’s mission.
Agencies admitted that when it comes to telework, they're still flying by the seat of their pants. The Office of Personnel Management is asking agencies to look more closely at their reports on employees' telework usage and success.
Barry Leffew, the vice president of Adobe Public Sector, left after 10 years.
Vendor past performance is a big factor in awarding federal contracts. Or it should be. It's a smart practice and at the Defense Department, it's also a requirement. That's why the DoD inspector general looked at 56 Army contracts awarded by five Army contracting shops to see whether the Army was consistent in evaluating past performance. Michael Roark, DoD's assistant inspector general for contract management and payments, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the results.
When labor-management relationships are strong, employee engagement improves, federal union leaders said during a discussion at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service conference in Chicago. Union leaders say their partnerships with agencies have improved over the past eight years, but the success of those partnerships too often depends on the administration.
The next president, in order to hit the ground running during his or her first 100 days, will need a strategy for keeping the federal workforce's innovation projects from losing momentum.
April Chen, the senior product manager for Iron Mountain, explains how process, protection and people need to come together to better manage records and data.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists are monitoring a herd of scimitar-horned oryx recently released to the grasslands of Chad.
U.S. Army Reserve 2nd Lt. Sam Kendricks won the bronze medal for men's pole vaulting during his first Olympic competition.
One year into a pilot with the Veterans Affairs Innovators Network, the department has made investments into 38 projects and ideas that teams of VA nurses, doctors and other rank-and-file employees have developed at eight medical centers around the country. More than 40 other VA medical centers submitted applications asking to join the Innovators Network.