Lack of data is the main hurdle keeping the Department of Defense from saving billions on its budget.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the House passes a bill to extend Veterans Affairs' expedited removal process for senior executives to all SES members and the VA Commission on Care releases its long list of recommendations for the agency....
Ten months after Defense Secretary Ash Carter sanctioned Lean In Circles for DoD agencies, women are using the circles to fight gender bias.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Justice Department is interested in knowing how law enforcement agencies are using drones, and the Obama administration plans to utilize data to change local incarceration patterns.
The Bipartisan Policy Center is forming a task force to tackle the tough military personnel issues.
Adam Levithan, Shawn Mitchell and Jai Dargan from Metalogix will discuss how their company can help your agency move to the cloud. June 28, 2016
The Federal Headlines is a daily compilation of the stories you hear discussed on Federal News Radio each day. It is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com readers more information about the stories heard on the radio. In today’s news, another federal official pleaded guilty to corruption charges surrounding the Glenn Defense Marine Asia case and more federal agencies can now move to the cloud.
Now that Congress looks poised to reject the Defense Department’s requests for another round of base realignments and closures (BRAC) for a fifth year in a row, the Air Force has decided to start its own process to calculate how valuable each of its bases actually are to the various missions it performs.
Leaders at the Veterans Affairs Department pledge to Congress that the money and time they've been given to help overhaul the agency's IT systems will not be in vain.
Paige Hinkle-Bowles is taking over for retired Deputy Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Navy for Civilian Human Resources Patricia Adams.
Marine Corps graduates of the USMC Command and Staff college have a new opportunity for continuing education. That's thanks to a partnership between the Corps and the American University. James Goldgeier, dean of AU's School of International Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin distance learning classes will give officers the chance to get new perspectives on modern warfare.
The Air Force is beginning to explore the idea of asking a single provider to take over the complicated web of business arrangements that power its bases and support its energy resiliency strategies, and replace them with a new model: Energy as a service.
The Defense Department announced Tuesday that members of its civilian workforce can now seek phased retirement from their positions, a concept that’s received little attention from federal agencies until now.
Even before the blended retirement plan goes into effect, the Pentagon is monkeying with it, and that's got the ire of retired officers.
The Defense Department is moving ahead with new rules for defense contractors aimed at limiting damage from insiders with security clearance. Jim Harris, senior counsel for the law firm Holland and Knight, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his insight.