If the State Department stands for human rights and dignity around the world, then my next guest stands at the center of the State Department. For his career seeing to defend human rights and protect…
May 26, 2022
The Office of Special Counsel has had a busy season. It dealt with a landmark Hatch Act violation case that sent one federal employee home without pay for six months. And it found itself at…
May 26, 2022
Incoming presidents must make thousands of nominations to fill out their administrations. In the past two decades, national security nominations have taken longer and longer to make it through Senate confirmation. Some slots stay vacant…
May 26, 2022
If you do recruiting and hiring for your agency, here’s a tip. Focus more on what job candidates know how to do, and not so much where they learned it. The Office of Personnel Management…
May 26, 2022
The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to close a lab in Houston after shuttering other facilities. The EPA at first planned to relocate staff to another facility 400 miles away in Ada, Oklahoma, no…
May 25, 2022
The Energy Department has a backlog of nuclear waste clean up responsibilities, with material dating back to World War II. But continuing turnover in program leadership means things just aren’t happening. For more, Government Accountability…
May 25, 2022
The Postal Service is probably the biggest public face for the government’s efforts to supply Americans with at-home COVID tests. But behind the scenes, it’s actually the Defense Department that’s doing a lot of the…
May 25, 2022
The fact that government spends more on services than it does on stuff isn’t exactly new. But even within that services portfolio, federal contracts are increasingly consolidated within a relative handful of market segments. According…
May 24, 2022
Young, top-notch scientists have a shot at recognition from the National Science Foundation. Each year the NSF names an early-career scientist to its Alan T. Waterman award. This year it named three. For what the…
May 24, 2022
Federal contracting comes with more rules, regulations and contract clauses than probably any activity on earth. Now the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs wants to make one of them a bit easier.…
May 24, 2022
The Army’s digital transformation strategy was initially about getting the service to a unity of vision. Seven months later, it’s delivering new capabilities across cloud, data and network modernization. Raj Iyer is the Army’s chief…
May 24, 2022
The civilian and defense sides of the government have taken a big step together, to move the Defense Department’s innovative, non-traditional contractors to the mainstream of federal contracting. It takes the form of a deal…
May 24, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services has some new authorities to hopefully help resolve the nationwide shortage of baby formula. That’s after President Biden invoked the somewhat rarely used Defense Production Act. But it’s…
May 23, 2022
More and more, the Defense Department’s weapons systems must be cyber resilient. Now there’s a publicly available webinar for science and engineering people that outlines what DOD calls its Cyber Resilient Weapon Systems Body of…
May 23, 2022
