Management
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A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration under chief Anne Milgram improperly awarded millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to hire her past associates. Among the spending under scrutiny by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General is $4.7 million for “strategic planning and communication” and other contracts that were used to hire people Milgram knew from her days as New Jersey’s attorney general and as a New York University law professor – at costs far exceeding pay for government officials. DEA declined to comment specifically but said in a statement it has acted to “set a new vision.”
April 19, 2023 -
Lots of things have days, like National Ice Cream Day. Lots of things have whole months, like USDA Invasive Plant Pest Month. So why not emergency communications? Emergency Communications Month is in fact going on right now.
April 19, 2023 -
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts keeps the busy system of court dockets running. It has information technology underpinning this work.
April 19, 2023 -
Michael Chappell is the new CIO at the Army’s Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS), a position that the organization re-established after nearly five years.
April 18, 2023 -
IBM’s acquisition of Octo highlights a trend toward increasing mergers and acquisitions in the government services sector.
April 18, 2023 -
Last year's Chips Act was enacted to help the U.S. semiconductor industry. The law gave jobs to lots of federal agencies. Even the State Department.
April 17, 2023 -
The State Department is ramping up its data for diplomacy efforts by naming chief data officers to each of its component bureaus and offices.
April 14, 2023 -
Among declining employee engagement trends in the Partnership for Public Service’s Best Places to Work results, some agencies still managed to shine.
April 14, 2023 -
John Chierichella, founder of Chierichella Procurement Strategies, explains why red teaming a cost proposal can help put agencies on a solid footing if they decide to protest.
April 14, 2023 -
The Office of Management and Budget called on federal agencies to create plans to both add in-person work where necessary, while still maintaining telework flexibilities.
April 13, 2023 -
DHS IG Joseph Cuffari's lawsuit takes issue with probes launched by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency into his conduct.
April 13, 2023 -
Part of what defines us as Americans is our independent spirit. When a job needs doing, we do it ourselves, owning it as our responsibility to get it done. In many ways this is a positive thing.
April 13, 2023 -
Some 10,000 federal employees working in Europe will soon be eligible for the American Federation of Government Employees. AFGE has launched a new local, as it expands coverage.
April 13, 2023 -
The Agriculture Department is, in many ways, mainly a research agency.
April 12, 2023 -
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts keeps the busy system of court dockets running. It has information technology underpinning this work. The Government Accountability Office said the Court lacks a strategic approach to improving its IT staff.
April 12, 2023