Energy Department
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Rocky Campione, the agency's chief information officer, is leaving in April -- while Wayne Jones, associate administrator for information management and CIO at the National Nuclear Security Administration, has retired.
February 05, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, after the Army made huge changes to its grooming standards last week, some soldiers want more change.
February 02, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Education Department's inspector general says the agency developed a decent enough reopening plan for its employees during the pandemic.
December 23, 2020 -
President-elect Joe Biden is nominating his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of Transportation and intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as Energy secretary.
December 15, 2020 -
Despite longstanding technology challenges with legacy IT and challenges recruiting and hiring in-demand talent, agencies under the pandemic have reshaped the way they use technology to meet their missions.
December 09, 2020 -
The Energy Department is using the loan to migrate 18,560 mailboxes to the cloud.
November 09, 2020 -
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy, known as ARPA-E, has a good track record of investing in new, clean energy companies. If your measure is patentable innovation, that is. But not all those companies survive commercially.
October 23, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Postal Service is working with the FBI to provide fingerprinting services at more than 100 post offices across the country.
October 23, 2020 -
The Defense, State, and Energy Departments have launched a consortium. They want to work together to help advance battery technology.
October 22, 2020 -
Kevin Kerr, the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory CISO, said his team had to reestablish employee habits baselines and then alter security protections to account for different hours people worked since the pandemic emergency started.
October 21, 2020 -
There are 50,000 people working in the Energy Department's nuclear security enterprise and for obvious reasons, most of them haven't had the option of teleworking during the pandemic.
October 12, 2020 -
Agencies are often reassigning members of the Senior Executive Service with little oversight, the Government Accountability Office found. And the Office of Personnel Management, which has the authority to crack down on agencies when they fail to reassign SES members properly, said enforcement isn't a major priority.
September 24, 2020 -
Oracle and Mythics win a bid protest at the Library of Congress while AT&T comes out on top in its complaint against SSA. Both protests show the agencies made basic mistakes in evaluating bids on large-dollar solicitations.
September 15, 2020 -
Some old pieces of the nation's critical infrastructure are too difficult or expensive to replace, but they can be preserved and improved.
September 01, 2020 -
A month ago three departments — Energy, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs — established what they call the COVID-19 Insights Partnership. It brings together a lot of health data
August 31, 2020