The General Services Administration released per diem fiscal 2017 travel rates for federal employees.
The Under Secretary of the Army is hitting the road this week. Patrick Murphy is in Georgia to gauge the readiness of troops and see how the force is fairing generally as the makeup of the Army changes. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione is traveling with Murphy on a three-day trip that includes Fort Stewart in Savannah and Atlanta. He filed this report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
During the first few years of the federal government’s effort to shut down expensive and underutilized data centers, the Army chalked up some early wins: more than 400 have been closed since 2010. But progress has slowed significantly in the last two years, so top officials are about to get a lot more prescriptive.
The Air Force said Wednesday that it would begin offering retention bonuses of up to $35,000 to entice its unmanned aircraft pilots to stay in the military as part of an ongoing “get-well” plan for a workforce that’s been stretched extremely thin.
Reporter Scott Maucione shares photos from his trip with Under Secretary the Army Patrick Murphy, as he tours Army installations in Georgia.
A new bill in the House would take a novel approach to increasing the numbers of women and minorities in high ranking positions in the Defense Department, both uniformed and civilian. It would use grants to fund organizations devoted to leadership development and mentoring. The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
The rapid acquisition office the Pentagon set up a decade ago to fight against improvised explosives spent at least $112 million to deliver the military services several programs that were never proven to work, the Defense Department’s inspector general said Tuesday.
TRICARE contract protests are now so inevitable that a company might want to file one even if they're one of the winners.
The Defense Department will revise its final request for bids in a massive information technology services contract known as ENCORE III following months of industry complaints.
The Air Force is in the midst of a significant reorganization of its space workforce that’s somewhat reminiscent of what began with the IT workforce a decade ago.
The Defense Department will likely have to make significant changes to a much-anticipated IT services contract known as ENCORE III following a legal decision that upheld challenges by two prospective bidders.
The federal government is lagging behind the private sector when it comes to innovation, but that doesn't mean employees can't kickstart their offices to embrace change.
By the end of this calendar year, the Defense Department plans to deliver new assessments of the cost and scope of the Joint Information Environment, the ambitious, four-year-old project to unify an estimated 15,000 IT…
Jeff Clayton, principal at Baker Tilly, discusses the implications of GSA's Transactional Data Reporting Rule, and the latest trends in government contract pricing for commercial items. August 2, 2016
The Defense Department inspector general’s office substantiated a whistleblower reprisal claim, making it the first time the IG had ever done so in a sexual assault case.