Agriculture Department
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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 -
“When you look at the vast majority of our farmers, ranchers and processors out there, they’re really not using these technologies,” says the Agricultural Research Service’s Mike Buser. He explain how better data can help improve production yields.
March 08, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Biden administration names a top official to lead an interagency response to Havana Syndrome.
February 02, 2022 -
Shalanda Young, the nominee to be the director of OMB, told Senate lawmakers that agencies are on track to bring employees back to the office by March.
February 01, 2022 -
A federal appeals court, for the second time in two weeks, is striking down a Federal Labor Relations Authority decision that set a higher bar for when agencies needed to negotiate with their unions.
February 01, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers are trying to achieve cost parity under TRICARE to cover birth control.
January 24, 2022 -
Dr. Steven Kappes, in addition to running administratively the Agricultural Research Service, has also been able to do a great deal of his own research projects work.
January 07, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, while COVID-19 drove a majority of federal workers out of the office in 2020, new data from the Office of Personnel Management shows the increase in teleworking wasn't as dramatic as expected.
January 05, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Defense Authorization Bill has been signed; We'll tell you about a few changes. Still on the Pentagon's Circumspect List: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. And in COVID news, more sailors test positive, while 66 more marines are fired.
December 28, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, auditors for the Department of Veterans Affairs say the data Veterans Affairs is using to measure its capacity to provide specialty health care might not be accurate.
December 21, 2021 -
Of the agency reentry plans that Federal News Network recently reviewed, it's mostly managers and supervisors who appear primed to return to the office, at least for a day or two a week, in early January.
December 20, 2021 -
Modernizing technology to keep pace with mounting data and document processing needs is imperative to better serve and protect constituents.
December 07, 2021 -
It’s a hidden crisis that's existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic
November 15, 2021 -
Chief data officers are relatively new additions to most agencies, but the Biden administration sees them as an essential part of some of its top priorities.
October 15, 2021