Management
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The 2003 crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia sparked big changes at NASA. That's when its Engineering and Safety Center got established, in order to provide safety oversight and a culture more attuned to safety.
July 20, 2023 -
OIRA's latest directive tells agencies to deepen their interactions with the public on regulations, as it seeks to reduce government paperwork burdens.
July 19, 2023 -
Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half full. That fact has depressed the market for certain commodities a lot of vendors counted on each year as a kind of annuity.
July 18, 2023 -
It's one thing to want new infrastructure, but it's another thing to get a project through a nearly impenetrable thicket of federal, state and local environmental rules, not to mention the almost inevitable lawsuits.
July 18, 2023 -
Warner says passport backlog ‘not sustainable,’ as State Dept aims for pre-pandemic processing timesSen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the current wait times for passports are “not sustainable," and urged the bureau to take more aggressive steps to address a major backlog.
July 14, 2023 -
The Copyright Office's equivalent of small claims court has helped hundreds of people solve disputes in its first year. The three-member Copyright Claims Board will help in cases worth up to $30,000.
July 14, 2023 -
The annual Feds Feed Families campaign has raised nearly 100 million pounds of food since 2009. The 2023 campaign, just a few weeks in, has the goal of gathering more than eight million pounds of food this year.
July 14, 2023 -
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture are two of the latest to announce return-to-office plans, but the changes only apply to agency managers and supervisors.
July 14, 2023 -
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, said the debt ceiling caps required cuts to capital budget accounts and the Technology Modernization Fund didn’t make the cut.
July 13, 2023 -
17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
July 13, 2023 -
For nearly 18 months, the United States and its allies have shored up Ukraine with advanced weapons and ammunition. Early on, a policy office deep in the Pentagon coordinated efforts to enlist more than 50 countries to gather up not only weapons, but also medical supplies, ambulances and clothing. Laura Cooper is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, or RUE. For her work in to help Ukraine, she's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program, orchestrated by the non-partisan Partnership for Public Service.
July 13, 2023 -
Major General Johnny Davis, commanding general of U.S. Army Recruiting Command and Fort Knox, joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends, to discuss how investing in your team can make you a more effective leader.
July 12, 2023 -
The Senate’s version of the 2024 defense authorization bill has a provision to bring back the previously eliminated position of DoD chief management officer.
July 12, 2023 -
DHS said it doesn't want to stand in the way of people who are using their mobile driver's licenses at airports or for other federal agency purposes.
July 11, 2023 -
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 90-plus million grant with the purpose of improving understanding of weather.
July 11, 2023