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For federal workers, making a mid-life career change does not always mean leaving government.
Army Corps' working on cyber and user services roadmap to make processes and cloud transition more 'reliable, agile, and capable.'
In today's Federal Newscast, Susan Shinkman, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Civil Enforcement, says she will be retiring by the end of the summer.
The General Services Administration held a reverse auction to set up contracts for five agencies to buy more than 45,000 laptops, desktops as part of a centralized procurement.
A Bahrain owned company also saw a increases in government contracting, while GE and Verizon lost federal business.
A memo obtained by Federal News Radio looks at what Pentagon leaders wanted and explicitly didn't want in reforming the Defense Department.
Rather than cutting DLA, the Department of Defense should consider growing the agency and its mission. DLA is not perfect, but it has proven it can do more. It should be allowed to do so.
The Defense Logistics Agency is trying to expand the way it uses performance-based logistics to better the products used by service members.
A new study says the Defense Logistics Agency could benefit from performance-based logistics contracts, but there may be some legal barriers in the way.
GSA's office of integrated technology services and the Defense Information Systems Agency are in discussions to determine whether cloud is a "sufficiently defined" market to warrant a new multiple award contract of its own.
Agencies are making greater use of their ability to declare contractors and individuals ineligible for work by the federal government. Some outside experts suggest the increase may be the result of hasty decisions.
The Defense Logistics Agency recently sponsored a program to tag microchips with plant DNA. It was so successful that the DLA is adding a second phase.
John Sepulveda, the Veterans Affairs Department assistant secretary for human resources and administration, said the portal lets employees assess their skill gaps and create a plan to move up the career ladder. HUD and DLA also have initiatives to create high performing employees and organizations.
Several outsourcing-friendly provisions made their way into the Defense authorization bill approved by the House of Representatives last week. The bill would lift a moratorium on public-private competitions via the A-76 process in DoD, and expresses the sense of Congress that DoD should insource only those jobs which are inherently governmental.