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Between the Defense Department, the Veterans Affairs Department and the Health and Human Services Department, the government is one of the biggest health care providers anywhere.
In today's Federal Newscast: A new study confirms that COVID-19 can spread, big time, asymptomatically. The U.S. Postal Service lost billions of dollars in Fiscal 2020. And a federal judge rules that Chad Wolf was never legally appointed.
Defense contractors are or should be busy putting together self-assessments of their cybersecurity. Under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, those self-assessments are due at the end of the month.
Both houses of Congress are working this week. They've got internal housekeeping items to attend to, but also some bills critical to keep the government functioning.
Having just finished a multi-year revision of what you might call the bible of cybersecurity controls, there's something new. The National Institute of Standards and Technology cybersecurity crew has a new, companion guide.
The Secure Act drove federal taxes and tax law deeper into the lives of those other than spouses who inherit the wealth you leave behind. It made estate planning more crucial than ever.
In today's Federal Newscast, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) warn that appointing former industry heads could cause bloated military budgets.
Congress could still take up some sort of pandemic relief bill in the lame duck session. The Senate has been pondering a new payroll protection plan worth more than $250 billion.
Yeah, things will change, but you'll still work in the same old bureaucracy.
Many whistleblowers complain of retaliation to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. But OSHA resolved only a tiny fraction of the retaliation complaints.
When your agency spends more than 90% of all its available dollars on grants and acquisitions, you better be good at it. At NASA, they try hard. Now the NASA OIG has taken a look at a project to train and upgrade its acquisition staff.
The Labor Department’s initiative to consolidate and centralize back-office functions would receive a boost in fiscal 2021 of at least $25 million for IT modernization under both the House and Senate spending bills.
Caucus member and Texas Republican Brian Babin joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about some of the issues the caucus plans to work on.
The incoming Biden administration has plenty to learn from its predecessors about setting the tone, supporting productive labor-management relationships and using existing data to effectively manage the federal workforce.