Department of Defense
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Top Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are planning to introduce legislation that would pause the VA’s troubled rollout of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) until sites already using the system show improvement.
March 29, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: After eight years of double and triple billing DoD for genetic tests, LabCorp pays a $2.1 million settlement. An IRS watchdog says the agency's uncollected taxes estimate in not clear enough. And House Democrats want to create another investment option for TSP participants.
March 29, 2023 -
The Defense Department is looking at 2025 as a milestone to make better use of artificial intelligence.
March 28, 2023 -
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) does all of its work overseas. It engages with local grantees and contractors to do the work in a particular country.
March 28, 2023 -
The Biden administration is setting a high bar to improve customer experience across government, but the VA’s National Cemetery Administration is already at the top of the charts, according to one scorecard.
March 27, 2023 -
Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA's Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.
March 24, 2023 -
Since January, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has been running a highly classified version of a very popular consumer platform. DISA completed functional testing of what it calls DOD-365-Sec, a secure version of Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-hosted suite of common products.
March 24, 2023 -
Given everything that happened in the pandemic of 2020, one would think the government would have learned a thing or two about bio responses. It has learned a lot, actually. But there is more work to do, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
March 22, 2023 -
If you wonder why federal employees worry, along with everyone else, consider: mini financial crises, a stubbornly bear stock market, no breakthroughs on Social Security solvency, and the debt-ceiling debate dragging out.
March 21, 2023 -
Federal contractors don't see a lot of room for growth after inflation in fiscal 2024, with a few large agencies actually requesting a reduction in funding relative to what was enacted in 2023.
March 21, 2023 -
Pentagon heads look to pair acquisition and technology to advance their future capabilities.
March 17, 2023 -
Salaries for cleared workers rose an average of 7% last year, and remote work opportunities are also on the rise.
March 15, 2023 -
Even when a claim against a federal contractor is dismissed, it never dies. Like a zombie, it can rise forth and bite you. That's what a decade-plus dispute between Textron and the Defense Contract Management Agency shows
March 15, 2023 -
The Pentagon looks for new answers to ongoing questions about poverty levels for junior enlisted service members.
March 14, 2023 -
You could think of integrated circuits (chips), as the smallest building blocks in the nation's critical infrastructure. Recently, the National Security Agency (NSA) issued detailed guidance on keeping what it called "adversarial influence" out of microelectronics used in Defense Department systems.
March 14, 2023