Covid-19
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Your agency has a lot to think about as it considers reopening federal offices during the pandemic. Employees will trust the good leaders to make the right decision, former executives said, but absent leaders will struggle to earn that trust quickly.
April 27, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House and Senate Democrats push back on reports that the Trump Organization seeks to reduce its rent on the Trump Hotel in D.C. during the pandemic.
April 24, 2020 -
Congress has approved nearly $3 trillion to keep government services and the economy running during the coronavirus pandemic, but standing up the layers of oversight into that spending has gone less smoothly.
April 24, 2020 -
DoD says CMMC certifications will require an in-person visit by a third-party auditor, partly to make sure the company being certified really exists.
April 24, 2020 -
Workloads for people and agencies have ballooned during the crisis.
April 24, 2020 -
The Maryland and Virginia governors, as well as the District of Columbia mayor, all urged the Trump administration to keep telework policies in place as they continue their efforts to contain the coronavirus in the national capital region.
April 23, 2020 -
Federal News Network is conducting a new survey of its readers about how their experience is going so far with working remotely. Please take a few minutes and give us your anonymous thoughts.
April 23, 2020 -
Close to 1,900 employees at the Veterans Health Administration have been diagnosed with coronavirus, and 20 have died from complications, the department said Wednesday.
April 23, 2020 -
Julie Dunne, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, in her first interview since becoming commissioner said a group of more experienced and product specific contracting officers are leading the procurement response to the pandemic.
April 23, 2020 -
Howard Spira, chief information officer at the Export-Import Bank, offers how-to advice for employees and managers to be professionally and personally successful as full-time teleworkers.
April 23, 2020 -
The Library of Congress has published a resource guide that brings together many coronavirus data sources that are otherwise scattered all over.
April 23, 2020 -
The Drug Enforcement Administration has made a number of moves to help in the federal response to coronavirus.
April 23, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen says the volunteers will receive a wellness stipend to help cover costs associated with the evacuations, including health care.
April 23, 2020 -
Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein has told his service to prepare for a "new abnormal." He wants the service to be able to conduct its missions even with the possibility that 20 percent of the force will be infected with coronavirus until a vaccine is found.
April 23, 2020 -
Although we are all in this life-or-death situation together, different people are using different tactics to cope with this extended, unprecedented-in-our-lifetime, very real, very deadly threat.
April 23, 2020