Tom Temin Commentary

Pandemic response has acted like a pressure test for federal IT systems and related modernization funding.

Career managers can turn inspectors general into allies, not enemies.

That’ll be one small step in the history of space exploration, but a giant leap for NASA.

Thank the people who do the hands on work of government. There are many but as we head into the last week of our annual May We Say Thank You campaign, Federal Drive anchor Tom Temin highlights two in particular.

It’s not a lack of ideas that’s holding up federal hiring reform

How to balance profit motive and public health is a big question the nation faces in a big way.

The Small Business Administration was given a seemingly impossible task when lawmakers appropriated two tranches of money to loan businesses in March and April.

At least one agency catches up on supplies to keep its field workforce better protected.

Three trillion dollars and no face shields for meat packing inspectors?

Now more than ever unions and agency management need open communications

A pandemic manages to produce both terror and boredom.

Just because people are in motion doesn’t mean they’re spreading the virus.

Workloads for people and agencies have ballooned during the crisis.

Companies large and small seek their place in the coronavirus sun.