Tom Temin

diplomacy, foreign service, State Department Foreign Service

Senators push for fix to potential Foreign Service pay cut

Congress has until the end of the month to reauthorize Overseas Comparability Pay.

Federal Newscast

GAO

There’s a gap in federal oversight of retirement advisors

Agency Oversight

contracting, 8(a) program, Small Business Administration

New rules coming for small business contractor mentor-protégé arrangements

Management

Graphic By: Derace Lauderdale

early career, skills-based hiring,workforce, diversity

A new tool for medical care providers working to prevent suicide

Management

In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, a pathologist works in a laboratory inside the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. Most medical ethics guidelines around the world recommend a cut-off between 45 and 50 for treatments like IVF, and the Indian Medical Council sets 45 as the recommended age limit. Across the United States and most parts of western Europe, insurance companies usually stop paying for IVF treatment after 45. In the United Kingdom, the limit for fertility treatments under the National Health Service is 42. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

House Democrats introduce ‘Right to IVF’ Act

Federal Newscast

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Contractors prepare for appropriations to run out in two weeks

Contracting

The contractor cybersecurity locomotive picks up steam

Cybersecurity

A health care data and AI concept showing charts and graphs overlaid across medical equipment.

This small federal office has a big task in the digital divide

Workforce

The ticking sound you hear is the final days of the fiscal year

“Every September, we have to do this dance where we figure out if the government will stay funded going into the new fiscal year,” Loren Duggan said.

Congress

FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

This bill would extend TSA’s authority to many more passenger flights

“The flying public needs to be safe. The pilots deserve to be safe. The flight attendants deserve to be safe,” New York Congressman Nick Langworthy said.

Management

Glenn Fine, former Principal Deputy Inspector General, Acting Inspector General visits the Federal Drive with Tom Temin on September 10, 2024

An insider’s view of a job lots of federal managers grit their teeth at and tolerate

Agency Oversight

“I wanted to expose people to the critical check and balance they play in our government,” Glenn Fine said.

Tom Temin

Senators push for fix to potential Foreign Service pay cut

There’s a gap in federal oversight of retirement advisors

New rules coming for small business contractor mentor-protégé arrangements

A new tool for medical care providers working to prevent suicide

House Democrats introduce ‘Right to IVF’ Act

Contractors prepare for appropriations to run out in two weeks

The contractor cybersecurity locomotive picks up steam

How HHS aims to keep AI-enabled medical devices working as they should

Air Force to meet recruitment goals

Federal government saw less attrition in fiscal 2023

This small federal office has a big task in the digital divide

The ticking sound you hear is the final days of the fiscal year

This bill would extend TSA’s authority to many more passenger flights

An insider’s view of a job lots of federal managers grit their teeth at and tolerate