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The Trump administration released its first — but the U.S. government's fourth — National Action Plan for Open Government Thursday night, more than a year after the original deadline from the international Open Government Partnership.
Skeletons and fossils in museum cases look like interesting artifacts to most of us, but to Anna "Kay" Behrensmeyer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History they tell deep stories.
The government can't shut down again until September but that may not be reassuring. For many federal employees, the last event produced a permanent sense of uncertainty.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it now has the capability to make its charge processing and records system fully digital.
Pentagon decides to go ahead with another conflict of interest study. That can't be good.
The National Science Foundation is looking for concrete, technological ideas through the Career Compass Challenge that it could pilot broad reskilling effort across the federal workforce. But NSF also sees the challenge as a potential spark for culture change.
Michelle Thomsen, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is a long-time federal and recently won a major award from the National Academies of Science.
A company trying to get an IT services contract with the Department of Health and Human Services decided to go the protest route. Washington procurement attorney Joe Petrillo explained on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a federal retiree who says the state of West Virginia unfairly taxed his annuity income.
Agency leadership held a conference call with members of the IRS Advisory Council on Feb. 13, a volunteer group 75 tax professionals, to get their input on tax administration issues. That session made up for a January meeting postponed under the lapse in funding.
This week Federal Drive with Tom Temin is talking with three female federal scientists who have received recognition from the National Academies of Science.
The National Academies' annual awards underscore women's contributions to research science, including three female feds.
The past few months have been particularly challenging for the IRS, with budget ups and downs, a long government shutdown and a complex new tax code.
Tammy Flanagan, veteran financial planner and retirement expert, joined Federal Drive to provide some advice on how feds can develop new habits to help them weather the next financial storm.