Fifty years is a long time for a federal career, but we found one employee who joined federal service during the Lyndon Johnson administration. John Crawford, managing director of plant operations for the Government Publishing Office, tells Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin he has no plans to retire anytime soon.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill that would change the way agencies handle more than $600 billion in yearly grant spending. Terry O'Connor, director of government contracts at the law firm Berenzweig-Leonard, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the Grant Reform and New Transparency Act would do.
The Architect of the Capitol is in the final painting phase of the Dome Restoration Project. Other restoration work also continues.
Federal CIOs say when it comes to modernizing government IT systems, most of the workforce welcomes the change. But if the government truly wants to modernize, it will have to do more than try to catch up to the technology curve.
OPM allowed each federal agency to decide how it would deal with the ongoing Metro Safetrack maintenance plan. Here's how they've responded.
The Veterans Affairs Department officially fired three more senior leaders at the Phoenix VA Health Care System, the hospital where reports of wait time manipulation first started two years ago. Two of the three VA executives can appeal their removals to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
The Homeland Security Department once again awarded Raytheon a massive cyber contract eight months after a protest required the agency to pull back its initial award. The DOMino program will supports DHS’ EINSTEIN and other cyber programs as House lawmakers plan to debate the agency’s fiscal 2017 budget.
It's that time of year when summer interns stream into federal agencies and offices on Capitol Hill. Managers can have interns open mail and fetch coffee, or they can help young minds find fulfillment and possibly an exciting new career while you get real work done. Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his perspective.
Fraudulent providers to Medicare and Medicaid make up only a small percentage of all providers. But they account for an outsized percentage of misspent dollars. One way to cut improper payments is to keep such providers out of the system in the first place with stronger enrollment controls. Seto Bagdoyan, director of forensic audits and investigative services at the Government Accountability Office, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the latest look at this problem.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said agencies are too selective about what they choose to include or omit in their progress reports on customer service. Instead, agencies should challenge themselves and begin holding themselves to higher performance standards, he added.
Wayne Lewandowski, Vormetric’s vice president of federal operations, makes the case for agencies to embrace and prioritize encryption and privileged access controls to better secure their data.
Federal contractors say there is room for improvement when it comes to protecting itself and working with government in a post-OPM breach environment. That includes modernizing the bidding process, sharing more information and being ready to adapt to an ever-changing threat.
The Internal Revenue Service relaunched Get Transcript, the application that lets users access their tax returns electronically, on Tuesday. It's been about a year since the IRS disabled the web app when hackers stole personal information and used it to access tax returns for roughly 334,000 people.
One of government's leading officials on the Freedom of Information Act says agencies need more open channels of communication with members of public seeking government records.
The Office of Personnel Management experienced some of the biggest changes in the year since hackers stole the data of 22 million current and former federal employees. The cyber attack helped put in motion some of the biggest cybersecurity improvements in the last decade.