Energy Department
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Joe Carson, a 31-year federal employee and a prevailing whistleblower, explains why he believes the U.S. Office of Special Counsel withdrew its rule about contractor whistleblower disclosures.
January 18, 2016 -
A new report from the Government Accountability Office looked at four agencies to see how their money management and use of unobligated balances helped offset the impacts of the government shutdown and sequestration.
November 03, 2015 -
Mark Day, the General Services Administration’s deputy assistant commissioner in the Integrated Technology Services office in the Federal Acquisition Service, and Kathleen Turco, the chief financial officer for the Veterans Health Administration, are among a growing wave of longtime federal employees retiring.
November 02, 2015 -
The Army has released its new Energy Security and Sustainability Strategy, designed to enhance the force's readiness, capabilities, and performance. The strategy includes five goals. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment, was my guest to review each of the five goals, and explain how the Army will meet them.
October 06, 2015 -
Thursday isn't just the beginning of the new fiscal year. It's the first day of Energy Action Month. It's an important month for the Army. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why Energy Action Month matters to the Army and what it will mean for the force's mission.
September 30, 2015 Pete Tseronis, the Energy Department’s chief technology officer, plans to take a job in industry after seven years at the department and more than 24 in government.
September 24, 2015-
USA Today found that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) experienced 19 successful attacks during the four-year period.
September 14, 2015 -
The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.
September 08, 2015 The Department of Justice alleged Sandia used federal funds to lobby Congress for non-competitive extensions to its Management and Operating contract won in 1993.
August 26, 2015-
President Obama wants to build one of the fastest supercomputers ever in the next 15 years. The exascale computer would run about 30 times faster than today's fastest supercomputer. It's part of the National Strategic Computing Initiative in collaboration with the Energy Department, Pentagon, and National Science Foundation. Simon Szykman is the chief technology officer for Attain's federal services division and former chief information officer at the Commerce Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the project might not live up to all the hype.
August 04, 2015 -
The buzz around big data is growing in volumes. Eight agencies, including the Energy, Commerce and Transportation departments have each named a formal chief data officer. But agencies must find the right balance of roles between these hip CDOs and the tried-and-true chief information officers as federal IT evolves through cloud and the commoditization of technology. In part 1 of his special report, Deconstructing the CDO, Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller explores the growing complexity between data and information.
July 07, 2015 -
Shadow IT is a concept most agencies struggle with -- infrastructure that agency personnel implement outside the agency CIO\'s approval and outside the agency\'s IT architecture strategy. Scott Milliken found a problem that was even more complicated. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the problem he found when he became computer facility manager at the Energy Department\'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and how he fixed the problems.
June 01, 2015 -
By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered the federal government on Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half over the next decade, driving his climate change agenda…
March 20, 2015 -
Michael Johnson heads over to the Energy Department from the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House. He starts on March 10.
March 04, 2015 -
Air Force works to manage on-base utility costs through advanced metering initiative and privatization of aging infrastructure.
February 17, 2015