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Through HHS’ Entrepreneur-in Residence program and Transportation’s chief innovation officer, these agencies are among the few that are committing resources and people to thinking differently about problems and challenges.
HHS has promoted Beth Anne Killoran from acting CIO to permanent CIO.
As part of Federal News Radio's special report, What Millennials Really Want from Federal Service, 61 percent of federal employees under age 35 say they feel they're perceived or treated differently because of their age. These perceptions have some positive — many negative — impacts on their experiences in the federal workforce.
Roughly 85 percent of current Senior Executive Service members are eligible to retire within the next 10 years. And about half can retire within the next president's first term in office. But as the administration looks to agency career leaders to steer the upcoming presidential transition, 55 percent of GS-14s and GS-15s say they're not interested in joining the SES.
Blue Cross Blue Shield has joined the growing number of health insurers who have sued the federal government over a shortfall in pay-outs under provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent a letter to OMB Director Shaun Donovan asking for information on how the agency is going to adjust its pilot program so it meets DATA Act requirements ahead of the May 2017 implementation.
Chris Chilbert, the chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, said among his top priorities is increasing the bandwidth and redundancy of his office’s computer infrastructure.
Agencies are swimming in data, and they're looking for ways to sift through the noise and identify the most important pieces of information to help them make meaningful decisions more quickly and accurately.
A rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management on April 29 would delay criminal history checks until after federal employers have already issued a conditional offer of employment to an applicant.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to introduce a package of bills aimed at government reform. The legislative bundle includes extra protection for whistleblowers as well as barriers to prevent abuse of administrative leave and awarding bonuses to misbehaving employees.
The Health and Human Services Department has launched a task force to assist the health care industry in realizing that without good cybersecurity, electronic health records can be dangerous territory. Steve Curren is director of the division of resilience in HHS' Office of Emergency Management offers insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Senior officials with the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget say the answer of whether or not the May 2017 full roll-out of the DATA Act is more complicated than a simple yes or no.
The Government Accountability Office's sixth annual report on "fragmentation, overlap and duplication," put the spotlight once again on the DoD, Treasury Department the Department of Health and Human Services for the "significant opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement [that] exist in these three areas."
The Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general highlighted several areas agencies should focus on when developing IT projects, including creating a badgeless culture with industry partners, better integration of policy and technology and a “ruthless prioritization” of capabilities.