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The Defense Department wants to expand its budget for mental health care, and the services are starting new programs to prevent harmful behavior.
March 31, 2023 -
The Postal Service delivered a greater percentage of mail-in ballots on time in the 2022 midterm elections than in other recent election cycles, well surpassing its performance targets.
March 31, 2023 -
By all accounts, the nation is on an unsustainable fiscal course. Congress's own budget and oversight agencies say this regularly. Yet members refuse to confront the main drivers of exploding deficits. There's gotta be another way. To look into this, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Elaine Kamarck, a veteran of budget battles as a member of the Clinton administration.
March 31, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management uses International Transgender Day of Visibility as an opportunity to update agency guidance to manage gender identity inclusion in the federal workplace.
March 31, 2023 -
Ronald Sanders, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, retired career member of the Senior Executive Service, and former OPM associate director, argues that by ‘exchanging hostages’ with the HR community’s senior career leadership OPM can quickly move from “compliance cop” to strategic consultant.
March 31, 2023 -
Work-life balance is one area in particular where agencies are starting to see signs of stagnation among their employees.
March 30, 2023 -
House VA Committee Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) says the VA has yet to provide a clear picture of what a successful rollout of the Oracle-Cerner EHR looks like from here, given the system’s track record.
March 30, 2023 -
Companies leaders who want a piece of projects funded by last year's infrastructure bill, should pay attention.
March 30, 2023 -
Farming ranks among the most technologically intensive and productive industries. One reason is ongoing research. Now the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), part of the Agriculture Department, has a new administrator.
March 30, 2023 -
The great Solar Winds breach back in 2020 prompted many agencies to improve their cybersecurity. Even the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found it had to improve its own ability to detect threats.
March 30, 2023 -
Federal agencies "overwhelmingly" see a lack of trust from employees in agency leadership to come to the table in good faith when resolving workplace disputes, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found in its latest report.
March 29, 2023 -
CISA hired hundreds last year, and it plans to hire even more this year, as the agency looks to keep up with a growing stack of cyber responsibilities.
March 29, 2023 -
When the Trump administration moved two small agencies of the Agriculture Department to Kansas City, Missouri, it lit a storm of opposition. The agencies have more or less settled down, but the move remains an object of study. Now the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has laid out what it calls leading practices for re-locations.
March 29, 2023 -
The Partnership for Public Service's list of the top 10 "Best Places to Work" large agencies is mostly unchanged, but many of the employee engagement and satisfaction scores continue to dwindle.
March 29, 2023 -
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold dire ramifications for the entire nation.” The White House says McCarthy and the Republicans are to blame, refusing to put forward their own budget plan before formal negotiations. The Treasury Department has resorted to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default on the nation’s $31.4 trillion borrowing authority. But those measures will run out, possibly as early as June.
March 28, 2023