Department of Homeland Security
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Congress is once again examining the results of the latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Lawmakers said they're encouraged by the progress the Homeland Security Department has made, despite its continued last-place ranking.
April 06, 2017 -
Foreign affairs imposed on the Trump administration. Treasury moved to sanction North Koreans believed to have military ties. Trump said the U.S. would take unilateral action in response to Pyonyang threats.
April 06, 2017 -
Health care legislation may be in shambles. There's no sign of a budget for 2017, much less 2018. But Congress is making progress with a bundle of bills aimed at improving procurement at the Homeland Security Department. Sam Skolnik, contracts reporter at Bloomberg BNA, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a roundup.
April 06, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly wants to improve personnel systems for DHS workers to build on improving morale.
April 06, 2017 -
Heading toward April, the Trump administration was operating on several fronts, following the withdrawal of Republican-led legislation revising health care law.
March 30, 2017 -
Cybersecurity experts from federal agencies and industry say the best defense starts with basic "blocking and tackling," and then a layer of ad lib to throw off hackers who are reading from the same cyber defense cookbooks.
March 29, 2017 -
According to budget documents that Federal News Radio obtained, the Food and Drug Administration would see $40 million in cuts to employee salaries and administrative expenses during the last five months of fiscal 2017. The Homeland Security Department would lose $41 million for the Financial Systems Modernization program, a shared services effort affiliated with the Interior Department's Interior Business Center.
March 29, 2017 -
The Department of Homeland Security told Congress Tuesday that it’s seeing significant dividends from a new legal authority Congress granted the department in 2014: the ability to force other federal agencies to take concrete steps to improve their cybersecurity posture.
March 29, 2017 -
The General Services Administration will create a new special item number under Schedule 70 for approved products under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program as part of the effort to add flexibility to the initiative.
March 27, 2017 -
Retired Gen. Keith Alexander, the former head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, told House Homeland Security Committee members they should go further than just creating a new cyber agency within DHS.
March 27, 2017 -
Nation Analytics founder Brian Friel and Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal business Partners, join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the state of the contracting landscape. March 27, 2017
March 26, 2017 -
Although President Donald Trump's skinny budget failed to mention a pay raise for federal employees, a 1.9 percent pay hike may be in the works.
March 23, 2017 -
The U.S. Coast Guard has released the contestants for its annual Shutter Shootout photo contest, and the first round of voting has begun at its Facebook page.
March 17, 2017 -
The White House is also requesting a $3 billion boost to the Homeland Security Department, along with an additional $30 billion in defense and Overseas Contingency Operations funding for fiscal 2017. Civilian agencies would shoulder $18 billion in spending cuts. The additional funding for DHS would help the department prepare and enact the President's executive orders on border security and immigration.
March 16, 2017 -
In one of the busiest weeks yet, the Trump administration gave Congress two budget proposals to debate.
March 16, 2017