Management
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The Defense budget prioritized research and development and cyber, but that doesn't mean the third offset strategy is getting a lot of money in 2017.
February 05, 2016 -
The government is big, with 2 million people in the civilian workforce. It's also middle-aged. Only 7 percent are under 30. Now the Office of Personnel Managment has come out with something called the Pathways Toolkit to help agencies hire greater numbers of younger people. Tim McManus, the vice president of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, told Federal Drive with Temin how it's helping OPM develop the new tools.
February 05, 2016 -
There's failure and then there's failure. Big and small. One way to prevent the big ones is to develop tolerance for the small ones along the way. That's in part the idea behind a Pentagon drive to get more commercial innovation into its so-called third offset strategy. For what this means to contractors, Larry Allen, principal at Allen Federal Business Partners spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the topic.
February 05, 2016 -
It's a big ticket item. Over five years, several big departments spent three quarters of a billion dollars to sponsor students and recent post-grads in science and engineering. They get to work in federal agencies like Defense, Energy and Health and Human Services. The program is called the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. The Government Accountability Office took a look at the program and found some things that need tightening up. John Neumann, director of natural resources and environment issues at the GAO, told Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the Oak Ridge Institute and what GAO found there.
February 05, 2016 -
In a statement on Thursday, the agency says it had resumed processing individual and business tax returns at about 5 p.m. Eastern, a day after a "hardware failure" forced the shutdown of several tax processing systems.
February 05, 2016 -
The Office of Special Counsel is urging individual agencies to register for OSC’s 2302 (c) Certification Program, which provides information on prohibited personnel practices and offers protection for whistleblowers.
February 05, 2016 -
Lohfeld Consulting CEO Bob Lohfeld and Blomberg Government Senior Data Analyst Paul Murphy join host Mark Amtower to discuss some of the challenges contractors are facing in 2016. February 1, 2016
February 04, 2016 -
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hit Beth Cobert, the nominee to be the permanent director of the Office of Personnel Management, with a wide range of questions at her nomination hearing. But the committee is also looking for more transparency and better communication between OPM and Congress.
February 04, 2016 -
Democrats and Republicans both agree the Postal Service needs congressional help to better its budget, but getting there is a tougher problem.
February 04, 2016 -
Elizabeth Shea, CEO of Speakerbox Communications, speaks to Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm.
February 04, 2016 -
The IRS stopped accepting electronically filed tax returns Wednesday because of problems with some of its computer systems. The outage could affect refunds, but the agency said it doesn't anticipate "major disruptions.''
February 04, 2016 -
At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, members and witnesses grilled the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) for relaying inaccurate information to EPA officials, but also laid blame on the EPA for failing to investigate more closely once signs of misconduct became clear.
February 03, 2016 -
Administration officials confirmed the raise would be included in the President's fiscal 2017 budget, which is due out on Feb. 9.
February 03, 2016 -
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is threatening to hold up Beth Cobert's nomination to be the permanent director of the Office of Personnel Management. He wants more answers from OPM about a final rule the agency issued two years ago that grants members of Congress a special exemption in the Affordable Care Act.
February 03, 2016 -
The military services have been dithering with Congress over if and where to reduce their real estate footprint. But there is one spot in the world where the Army is undergoing a major expansion in real estate. Camp Humphries, South Korea is undergoing a multi-billion dollar makeover. Katherine Hammack, the Army assistant secretary for installations, energy and environment, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details of what's going on and why.
February 03, 2016