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In today's Federal Newscast: Senate Republicans join House Republicans in calling on federal workers to SHOW UP for work. A Transportation Department data breach puts more than 200,000 feds at risk of ID theft. And professors and Air Force Academy cadets look to have a robot defend bases.
May 17, 2023 -
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will require agencies to offer reasonable accommodations to employees who have “known limitations” stemming from pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions. Here’s what agencies should know before the law takes effect on June 27.
May 16, 2023 -
Meticulous documentation of past success, leaning on conditions for special groups such as small business or minority business owners and utilizing a red team to review both your and competition’s likely submissions are all ways to identify the right arguments for a successful protest based on a flawed past performance evaluation.
May 16, 2023 -
Debt default would seem, in some ways, like a government shutdown. But it's not. The government is fully appropriated for the rest of fiscal 2023. It is the money to roll over Treasury bills coming due that the government would not have.
May 16, 2023 -
Army camps and bases often feature architecture worth preserving. One example is Camp Dodge, an Army National Guard training facility in Iowa. Its construction and facilities management staff won a Pentagon award earlier this year for restoration of its 1907 gate house and perimeter fence.
May 16, 2023 -
Jason Lee Bakke, director of Chaedrol LLC, explains how contractors can improve their oversight and processes to pay GSA its Industrial Funding Fee off schedule contracts.
May 15, 2023 -
Miller said she was unaware of any data about the success rate of these types of attacks, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of companies losing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to these scam artists.
May 12, 2023 -
In today's episode, Michael Binder interviews Robert Storch, who has been inspector general of the Department of Defense since December 2022.
May 12, 2023 -
More government will lead to taxpayer dollars stolen through fraud. However, it also means more money is needed to combat that fraud.
May 12, 2023 -
A recent Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing raised questions of integrity and the so-called revolving door between industry and the Defense Department. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) was among the witnesses, saying there's too much industrial influence on Pentagon decisions coming from former officers and high-level civilians.
May 11, 2023 -
A pair of bills sponsored by four senior Senate Intelligence Committee members seek to add more governance, training and accountability to the government's security classification system.
May 11, 2023 -
For our May 10th show, I interviewed Transportation Security Administration Chief Human Capital Officer Jason Nelson.
May 10, 2023 -
Non-fungible digital asset. It's a term few people even heard of five years ago. Now it's the cause of an effort to figure out the best regulatory policy for these blockchain doodads.
May 10, 2023 -
The Postal Service is falling short of its goal to start turning around its financial losses this year, and reported a $2.5 billion net loss for the second quarter of fiscal 2023.
May 09, 2023 -
Union leaders have emphasized that collective bargaining agreements already in place outweigh OMB's latest telework memo, but AFGE's chapter representing HUD employees is calling for even more flexibility from agency leadership.
May 09, 2023