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Soraya Correa recently retired from public service on July 31 after spending the last six as the chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security.
August 04, 2021 -
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it easy to forget that pandemics happen a lot more often than every 100 years. A case in point is the terrifying Ebola outbreak in 2014.
August 04, 2021 -
National Cyber Director Chris Inglis urged Congress to stand up a Bureau of Cyber Statistics within the Department of Homeland Security that would collect, analyze and publish data on cybersecurity, cyber-crime and threats.
August 02, 2021 -
Everyone wants to save the whales, but Jay Barlow at the National Marine Fisheries Service has actually done it. For his work, he is a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals.
July 28, 2021 -
Marissa Levin, co-founder of Successful Culture International, joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the importance of boards of advisers, and the steps companies can take to avoid mistakes when selecting them.
July 28, 2021 -
Alma Cole, the chief information security officer for the Customs and Border Protection directorate in the Department of Homeland Security, is leaving to join Caterpillar, a global information services company, as the deputy CISO.
July 26, 2021 -
How can the Department of Homeland Security possibly vet 40,000 people coming to the United States every day to spot the possible security threats?
July 21, 2021 -
For how the agency might be improving things for the next filing season, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins.
July 20, 2021 -
Something big is brewing over at the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
July 20, 2021 -
A former senior NASA employee who cheated the government out of nearly $275,000 in pandemic-related financial assistance has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
July 16, 2021 -
Robert Santos, the Urban Institute's vice president and chief methodologist, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday that if confirmed, he would work to ensure employees feel supported “for the long term.”
July 15, 2021 -
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Census Bureau has told a Senate committee that he'd bring transparency and independence to the nation’s largest statistical agency
July 15, 2021 -
The Office of Personnel Management is developing an assessment tool for agencies, designed to help them evaluate the current state of their diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts. Those reviews are a key part of the Biden administration's recent diversity and inclusion executive order.
July 14, 2021 -
One of the difficulties of controlling illegal opioids is that it comes mixed in with other substances. Sometimes detecting it can take hours of chemical analysis.
July 14, 2021 -
President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping a doctor who served on the front lines of the nation’s opioid epidemic
July 13, 2021