The Air Force's modernization plans account for a large part of the Defense Department's overall spending to bring weapon systems up to date over the next decade, according to a new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In a short video released by the Obama administration, National Security Advisor Susan Rice calls on viewers to consider a career in public service.
Greg Giddens, the director of the Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction at the Veterans Affairs Department, is pushing five main acquisition principles that he says will put the VA in the right direction.
Anne Altman celebrates 34 years at IBM with Jan. 26 retirement party at the Metropolitan Club.
Your mother always told you it was good to share. For federal agencies, shared services are a route to greater efficiency, less wasted effort and maybe even better performance. So why aren't more agencies doing it? Now the Partnership for Public Service, teaming with Deloitte, has come up with a list of recommendations for agencies to get into shared services for human resources and acquisition. Mallory Barg Bulman, research director at the Partnership, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more detail.
The Justice Department inspector general said the Drug Enforcement Agency has been paying federal employees to serve as informants in instances where they were just doing their day jobs.
Federal employees in the D.C. area are able to return to their offices on Wednesday after snow forced their closure for two days.
Federal workers applaud the Office of Personnel Management's decision to close D.C.-area offices for the second day in a row, as many continue to dig out from Snowstorm Jonas.
Snow days ain't what they used to be. Now that tens of thousands of federal employees have the capability to telework, the calculus for when to close federal offices has changed. Regardless, it's not a simple decision.
Call it the eighth year syndrome. It's the last year of a presidency and scores of politically appointed slots throughout the federal government are vacant, and likely to stay that way until the next administration comes in. How do career executives manage through it? Federal Drive with Tom Temin gets some advice from Danny Werfel, former acting IRS commissioner and long-time federal financial exec. He's now a director in the public sector practice at the Boston Consulting Group.
The Office of Personnel Management has decided the government in the D.C. area will remain closed one more day.
A new bill from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) defines the term "administrative leave" and creates new categories of leave for employees awaiting the results of an agency investigation.
Mark Ryland, director of Solutions Architecture and chief architect with Amazon Web Services, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his company can help your agency with its move to the cloud. January 26, 2015
Karen Terrell, vice president of SAS Federal, argues that adaptive case management could transform the current approach to reviewing federal employees and contractors with security clearances.
Millions of Americans began digging out Sunday from a mammoth blizzard that set a new single-day snowfall record in Washington, D.C. Here's a glimpse of some of the lighter moments on Capitol Hill and the National Mall.