Management
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Anne Altman, CEO of Everyone Matters, joins Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to discuss leadership and how to lead during times of crisis.
November 09, 2022 -
Agencies are also considering new FOIA tools that leverage automation and machine learning, while a "FOIA wizard" is in the works.
November 08, 2022 -
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee made up of inspectors general recently launched a group of dashboards to help people see which agencies got how much money and where it went.
November 07, 2022 -
Elliott Johnson Jr., a senior management analyst in the HUD’s Office of the Chief Risk Officer, said the agency updated its front end risk assessment (FERA) policy in September, including two years of lessons learned.
November 03, 2022 -
Gwendolyn Sykes has operated as a CFO at large federal agencies and in two major universities. At the moment. She's the CFO of the Secret Service, and also a new fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration.
November 03, 2022 -
No one particularly likes Defense Department's PPBE process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and very slow. But it's been encoded into the DNA of the Defense bureaucracy for more than 60 years. Over the next year, two separate groups of experts will try to figure out how to fix the system.
November 03, 2022 -
Mark Bradley, a former CIA officer, has served as director of the Information Security Oversight Office since 2016.
November 03, 2022 -
A survey back in 2019 showed nearly a third of employees at FEMA had experienced discrimination or harassment. Since then the agency has taken a number of steps to reduce the incidence of these problems.
November 02, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The GAO calls on FEMA to help more people in need of rebuilding their homes. The percentage of contract protests drops by double digits. And the Thrift Savings Plan was up in October.
November 02, 2022 -
About 64% of FNN survey respondents said they were satisfied with their current work situation, but at the same time, the requirement of working in the office at least once a week was a pain point for some.
November 01, 2022 -
The infrastructure spending bill enacted earlier this year includes $7.5 billion to install chargers for electric cars. In response, the energy and transportation departments set up a joint office.
November 01, 2022 -
Thousands of career and political federal employees own stock in companies their agencies regulate.
November 01, 2022 -
The Defense Department is working on new initiatives to reduce the long-term ownership costs of its major platforms. While those systems are expensive up-front, sustainment expenses make up about 70% of the average weapons system’s total lifecycle cost.
November 01, 2022 -
Certain migrants to the United States are allowed to stay pending immigration court proceedings. That means Homeland Security must keep track of their family status and where they end up. This process needs a technology update.
October 31, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employees are seeing a growing gap in salary compared with the private sector.
October 31, 2022