Tom Temin
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Political pundits are betting Congress will pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded past the end of this month. Most agencies would prefer that lawmakers pass a real budget. Not the Internal Revenue Service though. Commissioner John Koskinen explains why his agency is better off without a standard budget bill.
September 14, 2015 -
A new excitement surrounding aerospace is one top outcome the Air Force Association wants from this year's 2015 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition. Retired Maj. Gen. Mark Barrett is executive vice president of the Air Force Association. Barrett says the theme this year's conference is "reinventing the aerospace nation."
September 14, 2015 -
The Office of Special Counsel is just the latest federal agency to suffer from the problem of case backlogs. In its latest report to Congress, OSC showed it had nearly 2,000 backlogged "matters" from fiscal 2014. OSC says it expects 6,000 new cases to come in during 2015.
September 11, 2015 -
Hillary Rodham Clinton's email problems are one in a string of examples of senior officials not following the rules governing records. Clinton's problems give managers a good chance to review email policies with their staffs.
September 10, 2015 -
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro joked that in trying to make HUD a better place to work, he could do little to change the appearance of the headquarters building, reports Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
September 09, 2015 -
Taxpayers pay for two Veterans Affairs Departments, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin. There's the good VA, which reduces its backlog of disability claims. The bad VA continues to struggle with management problems.
September 07, 2015 -
As the Office of Personnel Management data breach recedes into the past, the 30-day cyber sprint has left a lasting legacy, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
August 26, 2015 -
It’s good that efforts to improve customer service are revisited periodically. Technology and expectations change. Too bad the government has to lurch from crisis to crisis to get with it, though.
August 14, 2015 -
The problem with most data breaches is that too often, IT and security staffs only find out about them long after the damage has been done and the hackers have moved on to other soft targets, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
July 30, 2015 -
The drive to make software more and more functional may be behind what seems to be a disturbing trend towards failures in critical systems. Because of this, two problems linger with software controlled systems: they can be difficult to interact with, and in their complexity, they produce effects even expert operators can’t foresee.
July 22, 2015 -
What does the future hold for the Office of Personnel Management? Federal Drive host Tom Temin offers new steps for the agency to take following Katherine Archuleta's resignation.
July 13, 2015 -
Federal Drive host Tom Temin talks about how agencies will need to exploit the deep Web and its subset dark Web to keep up with unsavory elements following a data breach at OPM.
July 03, 2015 -
OPM’s data breach, which has spawned its own hashtag, is one of those drip-drip stories in which details come out serially, although not all that clearly.
June 26, 2015 -
Commentary: Federal Drive host Tom Temin says he sees no other choice than for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to resign over the agency\'s massive data breaches.
June 17, 2015 -
Commentary: Can federal agencies have a second chance? Federal Drive host Tom Temin says serious failures are often rewarded with big budget increases, but reputation is harder to recover.
June 10, 2015