Tom Temin
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The Office of Management and Budget tells agencies to get their shutdown plans ready. Congress has less than a week now to come up with some sort of budget deal before the fiscal year ends. And there's still no immediate plan from congressional leadership to vote on a short-term, clean continuing resolution. As the deadline gets closer, agencies and contractors are thinking about the lessons they learned back in 2013 to help them prepare. Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko tells In Depth with Francis Rose why there's still some optimism that agencies won't have to implement those shutdown plans.
September 23, 2015 -
The Defense Department is fighting gender bias in the military and department workplaces by approving "lean-in" group meetings before, during and after work hours. Lean In is a nonprofit started by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. The organization closes the leadership gap for women in the workplace by opening dialogue between colleagues. The groups are open to men and women. Lean In says it has more than 24,000 groups in 120 countries. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met with Sandberg and 12 female service members and DoD employees to talk about challenges women face in the workplace. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione discusses with participants how these Lean In groups are helping.
September 23, 2015 -
When scandals over scheduling and poor health care reached a boiling point in 2014, Congress acted. One of its mandates in the Veterans Affairs reform bill was a top-to-bottom review of VA's organizational set-up and whether it was optimal for delivering health care consistently. That task fell to the non-profit Mitre Corporation. After it completed that work, Mitre convened a blue-ribbon commission to review its findings. Gail Wilensky was a co-chair of the commission. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, she describes the scope of the commission's work, and by extension, how deeply Mitre dove in the VA.
September 23, 2015 -
The perps, if found guilty, should face the consequences. But should innocent employees, investors and customers also have to pay?
September 23, 2015 -
“Shutdown” is too coarse a word for what happens during a funding lapse. The government acts more as a patchwork. For employees, the challenge is knowing who will also be on the job.
September 21, 2015 -
The Pentagon has already signaled its intent to move its massive enterprise email service to a privately-operated, commercially-based cloud environment. This week, DoD officially kicked off the planning process for a procurement that will affect more than one and a half million users. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 18, 2015 -
Latest declassification project lets you see most of what two Presidents held and read from the CIA. But too much is redacted, a half-century later.
September 17, 2015 -
Congressional polarization and gridlock have been tough on federal agencies and their ability to function effectively. The Partnership for Public Service has tried to quantify this effect. Its findings, titled Government Disservice, come out later today. It highlights four areas where federal agencies have been hit hardest. John Palguta is the vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 17, 2015 -
The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards honor many of the individuals and businesses in the region's government contracting sector. The awards, sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council, celebrate high achieving individuals and companies for their performance and contribution to the Government Contracting industry. Rahul Pandhi is the president of CollabraLink Technologies, and a finalist for this year's GovCon Contractor of the Year award in the $25 million in sales category. He told me the Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about his company's agile development services.
September 17, 2015 -
The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards honor many of the individuals and businesses in the region's government contracting sector. The awards, sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council, celebrate high achieving individuals and companies for their performance and contribution to the Government Contracting industry. Between now and Nov. 5, Federal News Radio is interviewing the finalists for this year's GovCon Awards. Mark Chichester is the president of Atlas Research. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on his nomination.
September 16, 2015 -
Agency senior leaders are finally giving cybersecurity the attention it deserves. Federal chief information officers say after a decade of warnings about the threats and risks to their data and networks, the OPM data breach brought home just exactly why cybersecurity is important. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details of our exclusive new survey of federal CIOs, and why the OPM data breach was a cyber awakening for so many.
September 16, 2015 -
The Defense Department has tried to reform its acquisition process for decades. DoD wants to address persistent cost and schedule growth that hit most major programs. Although countless reforms have been proposed and implemented, waste, fraud and abuse continue. Bill Lucyshyn is the interim director of the University of Maryland's Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. He's also one of the authors of a comprehensive new study of acquisition reform. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 16, 2015 -
Morale and engagement among managers and members of the Senior Executive Service are at a five-year low, according to the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. And more than half of federal employees at GS-14 and 15 tell Federal News Radio, they're not interested in joining the SES if they had the chance. But that's not the case for many rising leaders at the African-American Federal Executive Association's SES training workshop. Case in point: Shireen Dodson, the first full-time ombudsman at the State Department and a member of the SES. She tells Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko there's still plenty of interest in joining the SES.
September 16, 2015 -
You've heard of USA Jobs, the federal hiring portal. Now, there's USA Hire. It's the latest part of the Office of Personnel Management's strategy to streamline the hiring process and get agencies the best candidates. Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko tells the Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about USA Hire.
September 15, 2015 -
The Federal Communications Commission hit a major snag last week during an IT systems upgrade. It could have blown up into another failed federal tech project. But the FCC turned it around. In his weekly feature, "Inside the Reporter’s Notebook," Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about how the agency did it.
September 15, 2015