The Navy says it’s seen huge successes in a pilot project that aims to change the decades-old, hardware-centric budgeting model Congress and the Pentagon use to plan and execute DoD’s spending into one that actually…
November 3, 2023
On today’s episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: The Postal Services has changed more than you think in the last 20 years. How federal procurement can keep artificial intelligence in its swim lane.…
November 3, 2023
Lots of people are worried about the effects of artificial intelligence. Misused AI can cause harm. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talk with someone who said federal contracts can provide a line of defense against…
November 3, 2023
As one of the oldest federal services, the Postal Service has changed constantly over the centuries. In fact, a lot has happened just in the 21st century. The USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has…
November 3, 2023
Skills gaps in the federal workforce remain a significant barrier to reaching better end results in agencies’ work. But across government, chief learning officers are taking on some of the challenging, long-term work to try…
November 3, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security will use a “cybersecurity readiness” assessment to evaluate whether contractors have appropriate cyber defenses in place prior to making contract awards. DHS published the details of the new “cybersecurity readiness…
November 3, 2023
In cost-plus contracts, exactly how much of a contractor’s records can the government see? And who in particular can see them? Those questions are at the heart of a recent dispute among the Energy Department,…
November 2, 2023
Imagine an operation in which 10,000 law enforcement people worldwide arrested a thousand violent organized criminals. That is what happened in 2021, in an operation known as Trojan Shield. A Justice Department team led the…
November 2, 2023
Few people in government have more experience in federal labor relations and employee issues than Federal Drive Host Tom Temin’s guest. For the past year, she’s been chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. For…
November 2, 2023
On today’s episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: Why the Federal Labor Relations Authority may be headed toward furloughs or layoffs. This law enforcement sting operation netted a thousand arrests. A dispute over government…
November 2, 2023
The Army has been talking for many, many years about the need to simplify its IT networks. But officials say they’re now poised to make more progress than ever before, largely because of some recent…
November 2, 2023
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking at artificial intelligence tools to accelerate its work reducing burnout among its health care workforce. The VA, through an AI Tech Sprint it launched Tuesday on Challenge.gov, is…
November 2, 2023
The company HP, recently launched its first HP Work Relationship Index. It is a study that tracks and analyzes the relationship between people and their work. What it found was the relationship most employees have with…
November 1, 2023