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Beginning on Dec. 8, the Defense Security Service all but ceased its processing of personnel security investigation requests for government contractors, and by the time things were up and running again on Jan. 5, a new backlog of approximately 10,000 cases had built up.
The Air Force said last week that it has about 1,000 civilian “overages” across all of its major commands, and needs to use reduction in force (RIF) authorities to eliminate those positions.
We like to call attention to significant departures or additions to government service in this space. There were several of them over the past week
When the first Pulsar came out at $500, no one knew it would be nearly free in a couple of years. Now we know better.
Navy officials told lawmakers facilities sustainment cuts have hurt personnel services and building modernization efforts.
Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform took aim Thursday at federal agencies who they claim have been lax on fulfilling document requests.
The Navy plans a formal announcement regarding the creation of a rapid acquisition office within the next several months. Each of the military services would like Congress to allow more flexibility so that weapons system funding can be spent on protoypes.
In the aftermath of the botched transition of a childcare subsidy program for military families, the Army and the General Services Administration say they’ve now cleared a backlog of thousands of overdue payments to soldiers. But as Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, it will take several more months to get the fee assistance program on even footing.
The Army and GSA say most families who've been waiting months for promised childcare subsidies have been compensated. But several other aspects of the Army's Fee Assistance Program will take months more to correct.
Initial secret and top-secret cases took an average of 95 and 179 days to process, respectively, by the end of last fiscal year, according to a fourth quarter update on Performance.gov.
The budget deal cuts $250 million in civilian headquarters and mandates a report from the inspector general.
This week, Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talked with Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James.
An old quip about the Defense Department is that the Navy, Army and Marines all have their own air force. Throw in the Air Force itself and you've got a lot of flying assets. Yet DoD can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it. The Rand Corporation looked into this and came up with some recommendations for an activity that costs billions every year. Michael Boito, senior cost analyst at Rand, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
For the Army's Enterprise Services unit, IT has been a migration from unifying email to rationalizing many widely used services. Doug Haskin, project director for Enterprise Services, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how Congress gave the whole effort a shot in the arm.