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Jon Adler, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, says the criminal investigation division of the IRS should become its own agency that reports directly the Treasury Department.
August 21, 2015 -
Agencies are dragging their employees kicking and screaming into open offices, as a Federal News Radio survey uncovered last month. The most wary ones are people with disabilities who need special accommodations to work. Ned Holland is the assistant secretary for administration at Health and Human Services. He tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp that HHS is rapidly consolidating its buildings under a White House directive. As it does so, it's turning to open offices.
August 21, 2015 -
The nation's public transportation systems will be stronger when the next major storm hits. Adam Schildge is a senior program analyst at the Federal Transit Administration. He's in charge of a $3.6 billion competitive grant program. He developed a new methodology to help decide which public transportation projects might get hit in another storm in the future and which ones should get a resilience grant. He's a finalist for a Service to America medal in the Call to Service category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how he started his federal career.
August 20, 2015 -
As the Army prepares to graduate the first two female Rangers in its history in a ceremony tomorrow, officials are insisting they did not alter their training standards to accommodate the Army’s first round of female students. But it’s still unclear whether those two new Rangers will ever be allowed to serve in direct ground combat. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
August 20, 2015 -
David Bray, the FCC’s chief information officer, has been creating the team, the processes and the culture to bring major changes to the way the commission manages and uses information technology.
August 20, 2015 -
The association that represents federal law enforcement officers wants its members out from under IRS management. The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) says the IRS should no longer have a criminal investigation division. FLEOA says the unit has suffered because of the scandal in the agency's tax-exempt division a few years back. Jon Adler is FLEOA's national president. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the association's current thinking.
August 20, 2015 -
Altegrity, USIS’s parent company, agreed to forgo at least $30 million in fees the government owed it in return for not being held liable for alleged violations of the “dumping” or “flushing” security clearances over a 18-year period.
August 20, 2015 -
The Navy’s top officer says the Pentagon is fighting a congressional proposal that would dramatically reduce take-home pay for tens of thousands of service members by reducing their housing allowances.
August 19, 2015 -
The General Services Administration's Western Regions Conference scandal still leaves a bad taste in the mouths of some agencies. Spending on government conferences dropped $3 billion between 2013 and 2010. And the Office of Management and Budget told agencies to cut travel spending by 30 percent back in 2012. But federal employees gain some benefits from conferences that money can't buy. Bob Hale is a fellow at Booz Allen Hamilton, former undersecretary of defense comptroller and former executive director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose why conferences are still valuable.
August 19, 2015 -
Managers at the Veterans Affairs Department may be targets of one of the largest federal employee unions. Representatives of the American Federation of Government Employees may have been using their work time to compile suggestions for discipline by top VA leaders. Federal News Radio Reporter Emily Kopp tells In Depth with Francis Rose why this controversy may boil down to a classic labor-versus-management clash.
August 19, 2015 -
Federal firefighters and National Guard units have been called in to help local firefighters battle the wildfires in the western U.S. Check out our photo gallery of the effort.
August 19, 2015 -
Just when Congress is considering tougher penalties for Veterans Affairs employees engaged in misconduct, the Senior Executives Association and the Federal Managers Association have asked lawmakers to investigate a "hit list" created by the American Federation of Government Employees, VA's largest labor union.
August 19, 2015 -
The Federal Aviation Administration is making progress in its efforts to integrate unmanned aerial system flights into the national airspace. That's according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 directed the agency to safely integrate flights by aircraft without an onboard pilot that operate on pre-programmed routes or are remotely controlled. Gerald Dillingham is the director of physical infrastructure issues at GAO. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the report and FAA's drone progress.
August 19, 2015 -
The sequestration cuts that began in 2013 weren’t just detrimental to federal agencies missions — they harmed the economy to boot. That’s according to Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, who says even though long-term deficits are a problem, short-term federal spending cuts aren’t the answer. Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu has the story.
August 18, 2015 -
In late 2009, President Barack Obama ordered agencies to hire more veterans. They have. Veterans used to be confined mostly to the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. But the Office of Personnel Management says one out of every three new employees in fiscal 2014 was a veteran. OPM Director of Veterans Services Hakeem Basheerud-Deen tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp how the whole government has stepped up to the challenge.
August 18, 2015