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The push and pull over how much feds should return to the office seems headed to a grudging settlement.
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.
The updated collective bargaining agreement between the Social Security Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees will cement official time, a mentorship program, child and elder care benefits and more for another six years.
Bills that would set higher pay for frontline Border Patrol agents, increase hiring, and make a temporary pay raise for federal firefighters battling wildfires are heading for a Senate floor vote.
The federal government is setting a new record for overall small business contract spending — with more than a quarter of federal contracting dollars last year going to small businesses.
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.
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.
In today's Federal Newscast: USAID has put a policy in place to limit telework. Congress moves to reduce employment barriers for military spouses when a service member receives relocation orders. And the intelligence community gets new hiring incentives.
A report on sexual assault and harassment at the Coast Guard Academy stayed under wraps for years; Congress wants to know why.
DoD has gone some way toward easing the health care access problems employees in Japan have faced. But Congress is paying attention to ongoing challenges.
Bills to modernize cybersecurity hiring, broaden AI training and streamline regulatory documents advance out of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Customs and Border Protection is adding more criminal investigators to its Office of Professional Responsibility, the office in charge of investigating serious misconduct allegations by CBP staff. The office also reviews use of force and critical incidents like in-custody deaths.
Justin Marsico, the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s chief data officer, said a pilot program turned into a full-fledged training effort is helping to further instill the culture of data across the bureau.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the current wait times for passports are “not sustainable," and urged the bureau to take more aggressive steps to address a major backlog.