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On this edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Marygrace Parker of the I-95 Corridor Coalition.
A former federal police officer has been charged with trying to manufacture meth inside a federal laboratory in Maryland.
GSA released two solicitations under the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) program. The GWAC would provide services across three main functional categories and replace the 25-year-old Training and Management Assistance (TMA) contract.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program is now a permanent fixture in the federal government. President Barack Obama issued an executive order Monday grouping the PIF program under the General Services Administration with an advisory board to oversee…
The government is getting ready to declare a big win at the end of next month. It looks likely to reach a goal of hiring 100,000 people with disabilities within five years. President Barack Obama set that target in a July 2010 executive order. The Office of Personnel Management's special adviser on disabilities, Michael Murray, tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp what happened next.
The share of jobs going to veterans has increased steadily each year since President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2009 to focus efforts on veterans' employment.
Government officials are starting to brag that, despite budget cuts and hiring freezes, the Obama administration will have achieved an ambitious hiring goal by the end of next month: To add 100,000 new employees with disabilities over a five-year period.
MSPB Chair Susan Tsui Grundmann took aim at a recent law and the legislation it's spawned. The year-old Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 curtails the due process rights of Senior Executive Service members in the Veterans Affairs Department. Just recently, the House passed legislation to extend the measure to the rest of the VA's workforce.
The house has passed a bill that makes it easier and quicker to fire Veterans Affairs employees. Some see Congress’ latest drive to hold government accountable as noble. Others see it as an impending civil rights violation. Susan Tsui Grundmann is chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board. As Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp report, she falls into the latter category.
Federal News Radio gleaned some interesting facts from retirement data recently released by the Office of Personnel Management. Take our quiz and test your knowledge of federal retirement.
Gen. Ray Odierno, the departing Army chief, said he’s worried about the service because most U.S. forces are underprepared for some of the circumstances they might face, such as “hybrid” warfare against Russian proxies.
GSA signed a 15-year lease for a 625,000 square foot building on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Virginia.
Good things can happen when you bring innovators from across an agency together with outside talent. That's the goal of Health and Human Services's Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program. It pairs external talent with HHS teams on challenges like modernizing organ tracking systems. Greg Downing is the Executive Director for Innovation at HHS. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the program.
Four associations representing federal contractors sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday saying they were fed up with executive orders and presidential memos that target their member companies. The representatives point collectively to a dozen executive orders and memos that President Barack Obama has issued since 2009, which have led to 16 new regulations so far. Alan Chvotkin is the Executive Vice President of the Professional Services Council. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain why contractors are so upset.