Federal employees will have up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth, adoption or foster of a new child starting in October 2020, if Congress passes and the president signs the annual defense policy bill into law.
The Senior Manager for Government Analytics, Readiness and Integration, Vann Sample, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the the details.
Matthew Cornelius left the Office of Management and Budget after almost three years to become the executive director of the Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI), an industry association, while USDA, OPM and the FCC gain new senior executives.
In its most specific take yet on the Trump administration's proposed merger of the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration, Congress also commissioned the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct a top-to-bottom review of OPM.
The final agreement maintains the NDAA's decades-long reputation of must-pass legislation, but punts thorny border issues to the still-unsettled appropriations process.
The Defense Department will ask its managers to look for even more savings over the next five years.
Federal procurement lawyers say the first quarter of the federal fiscal year tends to be among the busiest times of the year as contractors challenge awards and solicitations that came during the previous fourth quarter.
A redacted version of Amazon's lawsuit, unsealed Friday, claims DoD took a series of politically-influenced steps to devalue its bid and elevate Microsoft's.
The Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will host the finals of the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition Dec. 10-12 in Arlington, Virginia.
The FBI says it's not ready to release the identity of the Saudi aviation student who killed three people at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida
Roger Greenwell, the chief information officer, the authoring official and risk management executive at DISA, said the agency is focused on understanding where the cyber threats are, how does it take that information and make sure they are addressing those key protection priorities.
Military housing companies have hired more staff and invested more money, but lawmakers say problems persist.
Stephanie Shutt, director of the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program Management Office, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the Federal Acquisition Service's MAS consolidation initiative.
Beneficiaries credit cards were hit with charges up to 100 times what they should have been.
One group has advice for the Army on how to prepare for future climate challenges.