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Vaccination rates have risen significantly among active duty service members, but DoD health officials still consider the Delta variant as a threat.
It took a lot of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and the government to get COVID-19 vaccines developed and proven safe.
Results from this year's Best Places to Work rankings show federal agencies receiving high marks in their handling of the pandemic, but leadership effectiveness scores still showed much room for improvement.
New legislation could push the Defense Department and prime contractors to better understand supply chain vulnerabilities in the wake of COVID-19.
When the pandemic shut down worldwide travel, some 100,000 Americans were stranded in nations across the globe. Then the State Department's best stepped in.
Last year was a good one to be a federal contractor because of the pandemic and a few other things. Federal contract spending went up by double digits.
In today's Federal Newscast, beginning June 23rd, those working in the Pentagon will begin to see some new coronavirus restrictions lifted.
Administration sets up a complicated and long set of reports and planning deadlines before feds can actually return to their regular offices.
In today's Federal Newscast, with vaccine rates lagging among some members of the armed forces, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is reportedly weighing whether or not to make it mandatory.
Black, Latino, Native American and other minorities had higher rates of COVID-19 - contracting it and and being hospitalized - than the national average. Last summer, Dr. Gary Gibbons decided to do something about it.
This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the Biden Administration's COVID-19 Team. They discuss the decades of science behind the 'remarkable' vaccines, the decision by the US and G7 members to scale up global vaccine donations, and the virulent variants that pose a greater risk to the unvaccinated. He also predicts the dramatic discovery around COVID-19 will pave the way for a vaccine for HIV/AIDS within the decade.
Having the right technologies in place ensured continuity for the government. To figure out what industry and government learned, Microsoft commissioned a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Agencies have done their fair share of hiring during the pandemic, but the size of the federal workforce hasn't budged much in recent years.
In today's Federal Newscast, one of the most popular insurance plans for federal employees is offering an incentive for getting the COVID-19 vaccine.