The final details of the 2017 defense authorization bill remain a work in progress for the House and Senate, but one bargaining chip of the deal could undo some steep travel cuts for DoD employees.
The General Services Administration inspector general issued a management alert saying the 18F organization didn’t follow agency policy and may have caused a cyber breach.
Exhaustive research commissioned by the local 2030 group looked into capital, entrepreneurship, business formation and mergers and acquisitions in the Washington, D.C. area. Report author Jonathan Aberman of Amplifier Ventures shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Government Accountability Office wants DoD to declare the update of the F-35 a separate acquisition program for transparency and accountability reasons. Michael Sullivan, GAO's Director for Defense Weapons System Acquisitions detailed that rationale on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's chief information officer says the agency is in the process of implementing a variety of safeguards to protect data, after reporting five additional cyber breaches at the hands of unknowing former employees.
The Social Security Administration has a backlog of a million disability cases to process, but the leaders of a Senate oversight subcommittee say the agency's plan to reduce the backlog raises too many red flags about due process.
Chris Chilbert, the chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, said among his top priorities is increasing the bandwidth and redundancy of his office’s computer infrastructure.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), says a bill is being drafted to address Postal Service reforms. The reforms include addressing the mandate to pre-fund health retiree benefits, as well as merging the USPS Board of Governors and the Postal Regulatory Commission.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said he's continuing his hold on Beth Cobert's nomination to be the Office of Personnel Management's acting director, because he isn't satisfied with the agency's response to his concerns over an exemption for members of Congress in the Affordable Care Act.
Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin his group is meeting with agency HR leaders on how to export pockets of hiring excellence and export them across the government.
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is the latest federal agency to establish a permanent presence in Silicon Valley. Agencies are feeling the need to be closer to the innovators in order to feed off their energy, get involved in partnerships and stay on top of the cutting edge of innovation.
Senators focused on the authorities of an inspector general during the hearing for the nomination of Peggy Gustafson to IG of the Commerce Department.
Federal agencies like the Internal Revenue Service are finding that they must balance an increase in the amount of data they have to secure while providing safe access when that information is needed.
The department's Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) now has the ability to give access to users based on their job functions and attributes, not merely the person's name or employee number. Donna Roy, executive director of the Information Sharing Environment Office at DHS, said that capability is helping the department build trusted identity exchanges.
The U.S. Postal Service fared better this financial quarter than it did last year, but the Postmaster General says Congress has been slow to remove a weight around the agency's neck.