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As last Sunday's Super Bowl recedes into old news, I think there's a lesson for federal employees who work far below the political level.
The U.S. military establishment is so focused on future technology that it risks national security right now. That's the thesis of my next guest. She argues an obsession with future, and futuristic, technology can lead planners off course.
For a review of its of some of the NCPC's recent work, Executive Director Marcel Acosta spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Justice Department has laid out its plans to have employees return to their offices. It stresses maximum telework. But one group says actual telework policies are all over the place, depending on which office you work in.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal agencies say over the past two years, Russian state-sponsored hackers have systematically infiltrated the unclassified networks of cleared defense contractors.
Agencies across the board have an enduring need for scientific and technical talent, the type of people that can be hard to find. Yet many agencies fail to use the personnel mobility program, a system that lets scientific and technical employees from nonprofits work temporarily at a federal agency.
Each year the Federal Laboratory Consortium, the network of the government's technology transfer operations, honors one of its members as laboratory director of the year. This year's honoree directs the Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
If an agency buy software through a reseller on a GSA Schedule contract, does the software vendor have a claim if the agency cancels the license?
Even if Congress agrees on a budget deal by March 11, that means 2022 money will arrive nearly halfway through the fiscal year.
For the 2020 decennial count, the integrated communications campaign cost the Census Bureau $675 million, twice what it spent in 2010.
They say an army travels on its stomach. It also travels on spare parts. And in that regard, the Defense Department has a problem. The inspector general has found that one spare parts supplier, a company called TransDigm, received payments that resulted in nearly $21 million in excess profits.
One of the great open secrets of the cybersecurity domain is how much mischief is done by Russia and its government-sponsored hackers. Countering Russian cyber activity takes a lot of effort on the part of the U.S. government and U.S. companies.
In today's Federal Newscast, House Republicans are pressing Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on how she is abiding by the STOCK Act.
It's up to the Senate now to vote on a way to avoid a lapse in appropriations Friday, when the current continuing resolution ends. It's not exactly a route to full 2022 appropriations, but its not disaster.