Covid-19
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The Republican Study Committee has joined a growing number of congressional members calling for hiring and pay changes designed to help the federal workforce better respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
April 28, 2020 -
Small defense businesses are laying off employees, but they may have an opportunity to grow with DoD.
April 28, 2020 -
The Thrift Savings Plan has been functioning normally during the pandemic, in large part due to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board's efforts to move some 80% of its contractor workforce to telework in three weeks.
April 28, 2020 -
The situation is fluid, but coronavirus dollars are still flowing through federal agencies with more to come.
April 28, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, as agencies are developing their plans to reopen offices, the National Treasury Employees Union releases its own conditions.
April 28, 2020 -
Air traffic control is never easy work, but now controllers are concerned about coronavirus, working cheek by jowl in sometimes cramped airport control towers.
April 28, 2020 -
The government needs scalable, secure and powerful analytics technology to make sure resources aren’t lost to fraud, waste or abuse.
April 28, 2020 -
If you live, work, eat, buy groceries and have monthly rent or mortgage payments to make in central Florida here’s hoping you are with a federal agency.
April 28, 2020 -
NASA employees submitted more than 200 ideas to an agency-led crowdsourcing initiative designed to solicit coronavirus response solutions. A few of the ideas, including prototypes for two new ventilation and breathing devices, are already under review for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
April 27, 2020 -
Housing and Urban Development and Small Business Administration -- have become first responders. First economic responders, thanks to the series of money-printing bills Congress is passing.
April 27, 2020 -
Congress has finished making April showers — showers of money to the tune of trillions. Now they're on recess for a week.
April 27, 2020 -
Just because people are in motion doesn't mean they're spreading the virus.
April 27, 2020 -
Federal agencies are among the users of and contributors to a data consortium tracking the coronavirus, organized by retail traffic company SafeGraph.
April 27, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House Democrats are eyeing hazard pay for frontline federal employees for the next emergency coronavirus package.
April 27, 2020 -
The DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program is using several of its supercomputers to help with various aspects of the government's COVID-19 response.
April 27, 2020