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Maryland lawmakers are making one final pitch to the Biden administration to bring the FBI’s new headquarters to their state. The Maryland delegation met with officials from the General Services Administration on Wednesday, before a final decision is made on a new headquarters for the FBI.
March 08, 2023 -
Nancy Sieger has been the IRS chief information officer in a permanent or acting basis since 2019 and helped oversee the tax agency’s pandemic IT modernization efforts.
March 08, 2023 -
The government's latest consolidated financial statements would give a normal CFO hives. Material control weaknesses, significant uncertainties, serious financial management problems.
March 08, 2023 -
Semiconductor chips have gotten all of the attention and a $50 billion subsidy from the government. But without the more prosaic Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) underneath them, chips don't do anything. PCB manufacturing has mostly moved offshore, leading to a pending bill to help the industry, as the nation focuses on the supply chain.
March 08, 2023 -
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), joins Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to talk about how to lead with empathy and compassion while still driving results for your company.
March 08, 2023 -
For the third time since 2014, the GSA inspector general found TTS lacked organization control leading, this time, to lies to agency customers and the Technology Modernization Fund board, finger pointing among political appointed and senior executives and $10 million in charges for services that didn’t live up to their billing.
March 07, 2023 -
Although there has been progress toward training and hiring staff, persistent internal skills gaps pose a "significant risk" to OPM's ability to help other agencies close governmentwide skills gaps.
March 07, 2023 -
Homeland Security officials this year will test the extent to which software can verify the authenticity of an ID based off just a smartphone photo and then correctly match an individual in a “selfie” to the photo ID.
March 07, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Census Bureau didn't spend as much as once thought. Another bridge across the valley of death is being built for small-business contractors. And agencies are making progress on the President's Management Agenda.
March 07, 2023 -
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service is looking to modernize the way the federal government does business — and giving agencies a status update on its goals through the end of the decade.
March 06, 2023 -
The government routinely collects data, including citizens' sensitive personally identifiable information, ranging from Social Security details to financial information to healthcare data. They need it to do their job and deliver the services they are obligated to provide.
March 06, 2023 -
A really busy and contentious time for Congress kicks off this week when the Biden Administration releases its 2024 budget request. But that's not all.
March 06, 2023 -
It's been one year since the three-member Merit Systems Protection Board had a quorum, after several years without one. A big challenge for the board was clearing a five-year backlog of appeals cases.
March 06, 2023 -
A host of bills lawmakers reintroduced this week would impact retirement savings for federal fighters and federal law enforcement officers, as well as offer feds a grace period for payment obligations during a government shutdown or debt default.
March 03, 2023 -
Numerous agencies, including DHS, DoD and State, saw their backlogs jump after the public made a record number of FOIA requests last year.
March 03, 2023