The Federal Intern Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, unanimously passed the House on Monday.
The main population count not only takes place every 10 years, it also requires 10 years of planning. For 2020, that job falls to Lisa Blumerman, director of the 2020 count at the Census Bureau. As you might have guessed, the bureau is deep into preparing for 2020. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Blumerman on Agency of the Month for a status update and a sense of the scope of the mission for which she's responsible.
What's the most immediate threat facing Washington? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it isn't North Korea's H-bomb or the economic meltdown in China. It's worse. It may snow.
Open records watchdogs in Congress say excessive fees, delayed deadlines and overuse of redactions are harming the Freedom of Information Act process.
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, argues OMB and GSA are not following the money when trying to improve federal procurement processes.
The Office of Personnel Management's tools and pilot programs to improve federal hiring and workforce engagement have improved in some areas but stalled in others.
The Defense Department can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it.
You know what's like to be caught behind a parade. Traffic slows to a crawl and you've got no idea when you'll be moving again. The parade of political appointees leaving the administration and not being replaced is having a wet-blanket effect on buying and selling activity. That's according to Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners, who shares his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Senate IT working group is circulating a discussion draft of a cloud bill to improve FedRAMP and create a new fund at GSA to help pay for cloud transitions.
The annual IT budget guidance doesn't include any new initiatives, but several agency CIOs said they were pleased with OMB's support of their IT budget requests.
The 4th quarter update on Performance.gov details progress and plans for 2016.
The most read reporter's notebooks in 2015 had a variety of topics, but cybersecurity and personnel changes seemed to be most popular.
Beginning on Dec. 8, the Defense Security Service all but ceased its processing of personnel security investigation requests for government contractors, and by the time things were up and running again on Jan. 5, a new backlog of approximately 10,000 cases had built up.
Navy officials told lawmakers facilities sustainment cuts have hurt personnel services and building modernization efforts.
The House on Thursday passed an agency regulation-cutting bill, despite opposition from Democratic leadership and the White House.