Workforce
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I spoke with Dr. James Kenyon, Center Director, Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
August 18, 2023 -
DHS and GSA will use a $288 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act to build two new headquarters buildings, as well as a new parking garage, at DHS’ St. Elizabeths West Campus in southeast Washington, D.C.
August 17, 2023 -
The Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, home to headquarters for the Health and Human Services Department, might also lament about being considered ugly. In fact, its become something of an internet thing, after a Washington newspaper called HHS the ugliest building in D.C.
August 08, 2023 -
As many other agencies announce decreases to telework, the Government Publishing Office is taking a different approach to the future of work.
August 03, 2023 -
Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half full. That fact has depressed the market for certain commodities a lot of vendors counted on each year as a kind of annuity.
July 18, 2023 -
It's one thing to want new infrastructure, but it's another thing to get a project through a nearly impenetrable thicket of federal, state and local environmental rules, not to mention the almost inevitable lawsuits.
July 18, 2023 -
17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
July 13, 2023 -
The Agricultural Research Service has broken ground on a big new facility at the University of Kentucky. It's known as the Forage-Animal Production Research Unit.
June 27, 2023 -
The "non-recurring expenses fund" doesn't have a flashy name, but it could become a "significant tool" for DHS to make both IT and facilities improvements.
June 23, 2023 -
Over 150 lighthouses have been sold or transferred out of federal ownership since the implementation of the General Services Administration's National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000.
June 19, 2023 -
An independent agency created to fast-track the sale of excess federal properties is falling behind on its goals envisioned more than six years ago, and is running into many of the bureaucratic hurdles it was meant to bypass.
June 08, 2023 -
Few people can boast 50 years of federal service. But Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest started as a page in Congress in 1972 and he never left. He is no longer a page, of course. Now he is the building services coordinator for the House office buildings, an employee of the Architect of the Capitol.
June 02, 2023 -
The Biden administration’s long-term goals to eliminate carbon emissions from federal buildings and vehicles remain unscathed, as part of a bipartisan deal to cut government spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
June 01, 2023 -
Bureau of Prisons correctional officers, and nearly everyone is a correctional officer, operate in a crucible. They deal with Bureau management, which has trouble maintaining staffing and measuring its programs.
May 23, 2023 -
Having best places to work, means some employees endure the worst places. And the worst of all, according to the rankings for 2022 compiled by the Partnership for Public Services, is the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a component of the Justice Department.
May 22, 2023