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Congress has hundreds of members, thousands of employees, and a collection of monumental buildings. Now it has an application programming interface, or API.
In today's Federal Newscast: What some call "the Oscars" for federal public service will be given out tonight in the nation's capital. The Air Force is reversing a plan that would have cut pay for some servicemembers. And the Homeland Security Department is repurposing some electric vehicles to add to its 50,000-vehicle fleet.
The Army might be the nation's primary ground combat force, but it has lots of assets that fly, like missiles and helicopters. For an update on what is ahead for these platforms, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin traveled to the Deep South to speak with Dr. James Kirsch, the acting director of the Aviation and Missile Center, within the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command in Huntsville, Alabama.
The continuing resolution that Congress is debating is sort of like COVID. You know it's coming, but how bad will it be? CRs can go for days or they can go for months. Last year's went nearly halfway through the fiscal year. To find out how this one is shaping up, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Loren Duggan, Bloomberg Government deputy news director.
For many people who contract the COVID virus, the illness comes and goes. Others develop what's known as long COVID. Symptoms last weeks or months. The Veterans Affairs Department has developed what it calls a whole health approach to long COVID. With how VA practitioners are dealing with long COVID, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Brill, the deputy assistant undersecretary for health.
In today's Federal Newscast: Government officials think artificial intelligence could lead to a real bias in hiring. The Post Office plan to transport more mail through railroad contractors is off the rails. And a Midwest senator wants to turn up the heat on federal agencies — literally.
Climate scientist says rapid adoption of cleaner energy can help stop climate change
For a period of some 35 years, a million people were potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, the Marines base camp in North Carolina. Since 2017, veterans from that era are presumed to have service-related illnesses from drinking that water.
Government managers are supposed to use data driven approaches to decision making. That's what the Army is doing and trying to recruit more candidates to ROTC and to boost the flagging effort at regular soldier enlistment.
In today's Federal Newscast: A BRIGHT idea by lawmakers could save millions of taxpayer dollars. The Biden administration takes steps to loosen COVID-19 restrictions. And the IRS moves toward establishing the Federal Contractor Tax Check System.
Dress codes, already blurring for years, have really gotten hard to decipher post pandemic.
The pandemic has depressed blood and plasma donations to what the Health and Human Services Department is calling historic lows.
The Senate version of the 2023 defense authorization bill contains something called a progress payment incentive pilot program to create more transparency in contracting.
Clifford Lane is the clinical director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a Service to America Medal finalist