Reporter's Notebook
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A year-long study by the Defense Health Board suggests the Pentagon is not providing proper medical care to women, wasting money and hurting retention and readiness.
November 16, 2020 -
NGA chief technology officer Mark Munsell and SSA’s deputy commissioner Lester Diamond retired after more than 20 years each of federal service capping a busy two months of retirements and executives on the move.
November 10, 2020 -
New data collected by Federal News Network demonstrates that the agencies which took loans are moving faster, modernizing legacy systems and — hold on to your hats — paying back the loan to the TMF Board.
November 09, 2020 -
OMB says it's not worried about agencies' ability to pay back Technology Modernization Fund project loans as proposals were considered based on their ability to be repaid.
November 09, 2020 -
The Department of Housing Urban Development is modernizing three legacy systems in the Federal Housing Administration.
November 09, 2020 -
The Energy Department is using the loan to migrate 18,560 mailboxes to the cloud.
November 09, 2020 -
The EEOC is modernizing its nearly 20-year-old Integrated Mission System (IMS), the primary tool used to carry out the agency’s mission.
November 09, 2020 -
The Labor Deparment is using its $3.5 million from the TMF to supplement the modernization of the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system.
November 09, 2020 -
The Agriculture Department received three loans from the TMF for website, cloud and application initiatives.
November 09, 2020 -
The General Services Administration received almost $27 million for two IT modernization projects from the Technology Modernization Fund.
November 09, 2020 -
Three of the four Program Support Center executives on paid administrative leave since April 2019 remain in limbo while sources say the agency will fire the fourth one as part of a move to save face in light of auditors finding no wrongdoing.
November 03, 2020 -
Contractors should get ready for a busy holiday season with final solicitations expected to come from DISA, NIH and DHS for mega-contracts.
November 02, 2020 -
The Army is trying to breathe a little inventiveness into how to handles land use and ranges, so it crafted the Dragon Innovation Challenge. Think Shark Tank, plus camouflage and minus Mark Cuban.
November 02, 2020 -
The Army Research Office is working on augmented reality goggles, radio communications for dogs who are already trained to sniff out explosives and landmines.
October 26, 2020 -
The State Department created an intra-agency team to reimagine many of its business and administrative processes now that the initial urgency of the pandemic has passed.
October 20, 2020