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When a civil war broke out in Ethiopia back in 2020, my next guest worked overtime to ensure humanitarian aid got to those who are desperate for it, and to try and mitigate some of the human rights abuses. Now, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. He's the director of the office of East African affairs at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
AmeriCorps is the government's premier agency for engaging volunteers of all ages to help with the nation's pressing problems. At the end of last year, it got an energetic new CEO when the Senate confirmed Michael Smith
Holly Ridings, the first female chief of NASA's flight directors, will now lead the agency's Gateway program and international partnership to establish humanity's first space station around the moon.
In today's Federal Newscast, the federal government’s landlord is getting a new tenant, bees!
The General Services Administration is spending nearly all of its efforts towards the idea of customer experience. That's what Federal Acquisition Commissioner Tom Howder told the coalition for government procurement the other day What does that mean for contractors?
GAO says it seen some improvement and DOD is management of major acquisitions, but the cost and schedule growth are still big problems. And while every program is unique, one common theme is that DOD tends to commit itself to big systems before it has enough information about technology risks and cost estimates,
The federal government has world class engineering expertise in its ranks. The same is true of public health expertise. What it does not have is a standing capability to fuse those two disciplines together with behavioral science to help inform agency's response to crises, at least until now. A brand new organization called the Engineering for Public Health and Human Factors Center or EPH is now up and running within the Army Corps of Engineers.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department is delaying the launch of its EHR in certain areas, while the Defense Department's is moving right along.
The Freedom of Information Act might be best known as a way for journalists and public interest groups to get information about the operations of government. But it can also be a tool for companies to get confidential information about their competitors. Safeguarding that information has gotten more complicated in the last few years. Because the state of the law around the FOIA exemption that applies to things like trade secrets, it's all in flux.
Appropriators on Capitol Hill have a busy week this week. The first official week of summer. For one thing, House members are marking up the 2023 defense budget. And taking up the defense authorization bill.
When it comes to directed energy technologies like lasers and microwave weapons, the air force just doesn't have anything that's quite ready to deploy it on a fighter jet. But a new modeling and simulation facility at Kirtland Air Force Base is going to try to make sure pilots are ready to use them once they are.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department wasted an estimated $5 million in a single year by buying items it already had in its inventory.
When the army awarded a major contract for communication support services in U.S. Central Command without explaining itself, the Court of Federal Claims ordered the army to go back and fix problems with the 2019 award decision.
A new report by the cyberspace solarium commission bemoans the fact that the national cyber workforce shortage is still a major problem. But the commission thinks it's a problem that can start to be solved with the help of the new national cyber director. And the director will need strategies that address both the federal workforce and the private sector.