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In today's Top Federal Headlines, an employee at Veterans Affairs' troubled Phoenix hospital says he is facing retaliation for exposing continued management problems.
You might say the 115th Congress is off to a spirited start. Most of the attention went to the short-lived attempt to reorganize the House ethics office, a creature that doesn't even exist in the Senate. David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, offers his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
When the Defense Department recently awarded two giant contracts to manage health care services, it had smooth sailing in spite of protests. That's a marked contrast from five years ago when several awards were overturned on protest. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on how they managed things in 2016.
New administrations that bring big ideological reversals do spark a higher-than-average level of SES departures.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Congressional Budget Office describes the funding that would be needed to get the Navy's fleet to 350 ships in a new report.
Congress is considering privatizing the national air traffic control system as one way to help pay for the modernization of aviation infrastructure. Lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office to analyze privatized air traffic control in other nations. Gerald Dillingham, GAO’s director of civil aviation issues, tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin Congress will have a lot of potential pitfalls to think through before it presses ahead with privatization.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the House passes the Ensuring VA Employee Accountability Act to be one of the first bills the 115th Congress will consider.
Facing an aging workforce and unanswered questions over the legality of some of its work, Justice Department leaders will have several challenging problems to deal with in the new year.
Comments were due last week on a Defense Department rule concerning government use of unclassified contractor information. It may have been mistletoe and egg-nog time, but that didn't prevent the Professional Services Council from weighing in. Alan Chvotkin, PSC's executive vice president and counsel, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, federal employees who use their own cars for business purposes will see mileage rates drop for a second straight year.
New administrations and new Congresses always bring a new tone and zeitgeist to Washington. Maybe we can update the vocabulary or at least find new clichés.
Are fingerprints better than passwords for securing government systems? That's what the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is trying to determine.
The Secret Service has taken significant, wide-ranging and important actions to transform the way it does business, according to recent study.
The technology industry wants to transform the federal IT market that brings about new ways to fund, develop, procure, deliver, manage and sustain innovative technology solutions.