Agriculture Department
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In today's Federal Newscast: Some 800 IT workers at the Agriculture Department vote to join a union. In Hawaii, a Coast Guard couple might be Russians, with fake identities. And federal agencies achieve historic levels of success with small business contracting.
July 27, 2022 -
The House's passage of a government spending package has a few key implications for federal agencies in fiscal 2023.
July 21, 2022 -
Also in today's Federal Newscast, NIST is updating cybersecurity standards, and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife employee gets caught lying about PPP loans.
July 21, 2022 -
Fighting increasingly dangerous wildfires falls on federal, state and local government agencies — each with their own fire mitigation projects and data.
July 06, 2022 -
Jim Rodd, FEMA’s cloud portfolio manager, said his office developed a chargeback model for cloud service that received strong feedback from external experts.
July 05, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Agriculture kicked off the annual Feds Feed Families campaign Monday to tackle food and nutrition insecurity across the country.
June 28, 2022 -
The Technology Modernization Fund Board made three awards to USDA, DHS and FTC for a total of $94.8 million for network and cyber efforts.
June 22, 2022 -
Food insecurity affected one in five military families as of 2021 — up from one in eight in 2019 — according to the Military Family Advisory Network.
June 08, 2022 -
The Technology Modernization Fund is backing IT modernization projects at the National Archives and Records Administration and the Agriculture Department.
May 23, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, National Guard members on state duty can now unionize, thanks to a new Justice Department agreement.
May 19, 2022 -
Getting information from a federal website or agency without difficulty is still not a reality for many Americans. USDA wants IT folks who can "speak" non-IT language.
May 18, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, some Interior Department employees will see their remote work options expand.
May 10, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management is giving all federal workers the option to contribute to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
April 19, 2022 -
While the Biden administration is asking for $773 billion for 2023, that number may not go as far as hoped. DoD says it finished up its planning for 2023 before inflation rates rose and before Russia invaded Ukraine causing oil prices to spike.
April 04, 2022 -
You might not think of farm and urban in the same sentence. But the Agriculture Department does. In fact there's a new federal advisory committee designed to help the department better understand the needs of urban farmers.
March 28, 2022