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In today's Federal Newscast, former administrators from the Environmental Protection Agency are encouraging Congress to help EPA rebuild its cadre of scientific talent.
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government Accountability Office still faces a higher demand for its oversight work.
For many career civil servants, the last 40 days and nights — under new management — have been seen as a welcome change.
The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package gives federal employees access to a new bank of paid leave, which will allow them to recover from COVID-19 and care for sick family members, or children who are learning virtually from home. President Joe Biden signed the relief bill into law Thursday afternoon.
Foreign policy shifts back and forth from administration to administration, sometimes violently. So how do the diplomats manage to convey stability of the world's oldest republic?
The Bureau of Prisons has one of the federal government's grimmer missions: keeping more than 125,000 convicted offenders safely behind bars. It needs to do a better job of assessing the staffing levels of frontline employees though.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is juggling a multi-billion-dollar maintenance backlog and a growing need to completely recapitalize some of its aging facilities for a modern era.
The Postal Service’s early retirement offer has given new (probably false) hope to feds in other agencies who would love to retire early on an immediate but reduced annuity.
The Agriculture Department's new telework policy will fall more closely in line with the program Secretary Tom Vilsack established when he first led USDA in 2014. The department is also considering a broader array of new remote work policies and flexible duty stations, which USDA said is one of its "highest management priorities."
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Homeland Security is asking for feedback from vendors on how it should pay in-demand cybersecurity experts.
The Defense Contract Management Agency is reexamining several of its past decisions to reimburse contractors. That's after the DoD inspector general found DCMA overruled the findings of incurred cost audits without adequate explanation.
In a recent survey of Federal News Network readers, the vast majority of federal employees said changes in administration have little to do with their retirement decisions, but of course, there are always a few exceptions.
Agencies that implemented policies from President Trump's 2018 workforce orders should work with federal unions to write new bargaining provisions, the Office of Personnel Management said Friday. OPM offered up more directions on how agencies should respond to a January executive order from the Biden administration that rescinded Trump's policies.
One thing you can say about working for the IRS, it's been exciting. Now the agency's Professional Managers Association has a new roster of leadership to take on a second filing season weirded out by the pandemic.