Federal Drive
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The 2003 crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia sparked big changes at NASA. That's when its Engineering and Safety Center got established, in order to provide safety oversight and a culture more attuned to safety.
July 20, 2023 -
The push and pull over how much feds should return to the office seems headed to a grudging settlement.
July 20, 2023 -
It only took six years, but now the Homeland Security Department has new regulations covering how contractors must handle CUI, controlled, unclassified information.
July 20, 2023 -
The Navy's carriers and submarines might be the most technically sophisticated in the world. But they're also the most expensive.
July 20, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Microsoft will soon give it away for the sake of cybersecurity. The Office of Personnel Management is drafting new qualification standards for federal wildland firefighter management jobs. And the Air Force embeds recruiters in the Hinterlands to find new cadets.
July 20, 2023 -
An old saying goes like this: "If it moves, tax it. If it moves too fast, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." Well, Artificial Intelligence is in that fast-moving stage, but no one seems to quite have any sense of how or even why to regulate it.
July 19, 2023 -
The most talked about Government Accountability Office report in months confirmed what a lot of people suspected. Federal offices are largely unoccupied.
July 19, 2023 -
With the calendar year half over, it's a good time to review your financial life. For people in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHB), open season isn't far off.
July 19, 2023