American Rescue Plan

USDA putting $100M to work to modernize key benefits program

Rebecca Piazza, a senior advisor at USDA, said American Rescue Plan Act funding is making the WIC program more attractive to parents and families.

Management

Congress is still shortchanging agency IT modernization

Commentary

Here’s one element of good government the political appointees often overlook

Workforce

Raylene Yung, GSA executive who led TMF windfall in pandemic era, stepping down

IT Modernization

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The GSA administrator on the agency’s plans for the President’s management agenda in 2023

Management

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Federal money is flowing to support local jobs creation

Workforce

Rising robberies of postal workers make dog bites appear quaint

Federal Newscast

FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown, nearly 60 percent of its workforce, to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS may be able to double IT modernization workload with COVID funds

IT Modernization

CISA details new “FEIT” advisors helping agencies improve cyber defenses

Cybersecurity

Two small agencies win awards from Technology Modernization Fund board

IT Modernization

Federal CX gets a booster shot

Tom Temin Commentary

Shalanda Young testifies during a Senate Budget Committee hearing to examine her nomination to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

OMB tells agencies to cooperate with IGs overseeing COVID-19 spending

The OMB memo sets a tone for cooperation as legislation to strengthen the independence and authority makes its way through Congress.

Agency Oversight

FILE - A woman receives a coronavirus vaccine in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, Nov 29, 2021. A pandemic-weary world faces weeks of confusing uncertainty as countries restrict travel and take other steps to halt the newest potentially risky coronavirus mutant before anyone knows just how dangerous omicron really is. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan, File)

USAID putting new money towards making sure developing countries have enough COVID-19 vaccines

In today’s Federal Newscast, the U.S. Agency for International Development is ramping up efforts to make COVID-19 vaccines available worldwide.

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, a face mask lies on the ground outside the Chateau Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Willowbrook, Ill. Burgeoning coronavirus outbreaks at this and other nursing homes in Washington, New Jersey and elsewhere are laying bare the risks of the industry’s long-running problems, including a struggle to control infections and a staffing crisis that relies on poorly paid aides who can't afford to stay home sick. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Federal employees used 58% of special emergency paid leave fund for COVID-19

Benefits

The emergency paid leave program, which Congress created through the American Rescue Plan, ended last month, but the Office of Personnel Management will continue to reimburse agencies through the end of fiscal 2022.