Covid-19
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Air Force Materiel Command is looking at all of its position descriptions, written before COVID-19, to determine if they're more conducive to telework than originally thought.
August 31, 2020 -
USPTO Director Andrei Iancu explained to how the telework experience helped in the pandemic when everyone was forced home. But first, Temin asked him about worldwide intellectual property cooperation.
August 28, 2020 -
Supporting about 70,000 students in several time zones, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) has seen its share of IT challenges. Its schools began the academic year Monday, offering both in-person and virtual classroom options.
August 27, 2020 -
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has averted impending employee furloughs for now, but the agency warned it would make "unprecedented spending cuts" to avoid immediate hardship on its workforce. The agency said can't promise it will avoid future USCIS furloughs.
August 25, 2020 -
Leaders from NavalX gave advice for pitching to the Department of the Navy and discussed how to connect smaller players to innovation hubs during a recent webinar.
August 25, 2020 -
Emergency funding is no substitute for a real Postal reform plan
August 25, 2020 -
There's no let up in the demand for scientists, engineers and management professionals to staff the nation's nuclear enterprise. NNSA and its contractors are looking to hire about 600 people.
August 24, 2020 -
DISA officials say the workscape will never look the same again now that DoD has seen what telework can do.
August 24, 2020 -
The Social Security Administration will indefinitely require members of the public to make appointments for in-person services that can't be done online or over the phone, the agency said in its new "resposturing plan." Telework will also continue for most employees.
August 21, 2020 -
How the DEA made the move away from the pre-COVID office life to telework was aided by already having the foundation in place.
August 20, 2020 -
Initially created in reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is at another inflection point, former DHS and national security experts say. The coronavirus pandemic is another opportunity to reimagine and refocus the department to handle the ongoing health crisis in the short term and other non-military challenges later.
August 19, 2020 -
The American Federation of Government Employees says it's still in dark about the Social Security Administration's reopening plans. Employees have been slowly and gradually returning to SSA field offices since April, the union said.
August 18, 2020 -
Whether you are fortunate enough to work from home, or are still schlepphing into the office daily, are you not the person you were before the pandemic changed just about everything?
August 18, 2020 -
A few years after setting goals to modernize the federal financial system, the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service has already seen much of its work pay off during the coronavirus pandemic.
August 17, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the union representing USCIS employees is disappointed Congress left town for August recess before passing emergency funding for the agency.
August 17, 2020