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Between follow-up to the pandemic, DoD's need to expand the defense industrial base, and the administration's desire to foster new businesses, it's a busy time for the Small Business Administration.
Loren DeJonge Schulman, who will replace Pam Coleman as OMB’s new associate director for performance and personnel management, will focus on federal workforce and evidence-based policy making priorities.
OPM said the holdup on issuing final regulations is due to a conflict with rest and recuperation leave, but proponents of the legislation voiced frustrations with the years-long delay.
Terry Adirim, the program executive director of the VA’s EHR Modernization Integration Office is leaving the agency, effective Feb. 25.
A new study found NIST is losing equipment and research hours due to run down buildings that require deferred maintenance.
In today's Federal Newscast: The Defense Department IG warns against unauthorized apps on government phones. A growing disagreement between OMB and GAO is no act. And the National Cyber Director is retiring next week.
The Postal Service is working with its Postal Inspection Service on ways to address an uptick in robberies of letter carriers.
In today's Federal Newscast: GAO is preparing a first-of-its-kind estimate of the total amount of fraud across all federal programs. DoD health care providers expand their use of electronic health records. And GAO says FEMA needs stronger oversight of public-private partnerships.
The IRS is recruiting outside tax experts to help the agency determine whether it should create a platform that would allow taxpayers to submit electronically filed tax returns directly to the agency.
Contractors have only a couple more weeks to comment on a so-called climate risk rule. If it becomes final, the rule would impose big reporting and operational costs.
The Agency for International Development has always used private sector groups to deliver services in various countries. Now the agency has launched what it calls Private Sector Engagement Modernize, to deal with the private sector in a new way.
Few acquisitions seem to vex the government more than information technology. It's a major expenditure each year, at something like a hundred billion dollars governmentwide.
In today's Federal Newscast: Agencies are dragging their feet on some critical cybersecurity recommendations. GSA is expanding its data reporting initiative. And MREs of the future could be made from nothing more than water, air and energy.
As agencies continue to implement the customer experience executive order, they will increasingly need to modernize legacy systems so they are flexible enough to meet changing user needs.