In today's Federal Newscast: GSA attempts some creative inflation-slashing tricks for contractors. Internet crime was a growth industry in 2021. And the number of federal contractors is shrinking.
Security clearances, how to get them what you can do with them is an ever-changing topic. And the last couple of years have brought quite a few changes, especially since the machinery moved from the Office of Personnel Management to the Defense Department.
In today's Federal Newscast, House lawmakers are pressing the Federal Aviation Administration for more details on what it's doing to ensure the safety of the air transportation system as commercial companies roll out 5G wireless services.
The program focuses on balance as a way of determining health.
Defense Department components often give grants or contracts to colleges and universities, and companies for that matter, to do research. Now the Defense Office of Inspector General has found, research contractors don't do a good job of protecting that information from cyber attacks.
Omnibus bill adds more than $1 billion in facility upkeep funding, an area DoD has knowingly neglected in its budgets for at least a decade.
DoD's new JADC2 implementation plan is still classified, but signs of it will start to appear in the forthcoming 2023 budget proposal.
The Coast Guard will establish a new rating next year called cyber mission specialist. Officials hope it will attract new recruits and strengthen the Coast Guard's ability to carry out its cyber mission.
In a March 16 memo, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote that there will not be a “one-size-fits-all” plan to return to work.
Combining factors like lack of child care and constant moves are keeping spouses from holding jobs.
The latest intel authorization bill carries implications for security clearance reform, commercial geospatial-intelligence imagery efforts and what kind of work intelligence analysts can consider after leaving the U.S. government.
Congress, as it does every year, crammed a lot of spending when it whipped up that so called omnibus appropriations bill.
The House-Senate appropriations agreement leaves out a DoD request to significantly expand a pilot program to test "colorless" appropriations for software and technology development.
The $1.5 trillion spending bill, approved almost halfway through the fiscal year, is expected to be swiftly signed into law by the president.
Lawmakers are on the cusp of agreeing to a fiscal year 2022 spending agreement with a big increase for national defense.