Environmental Protection Agency
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For the EPA and other agencies, smart phones, wireless connectivity and the development of cheap, accurate, radio-equipped sensors combine to rev up the power of citizen science.
March 30, 2016 -
Hundreds of federal employees say their agencies provided them with at least some information on changes in commuter benefits. In an exclusive Federal News Radio survey, government workers said that information varied widely when it came to when and what their agency said, and whether employees would receive the benefits at all.
March 29, 2016 -
The Environmental Protection Agency is focusing on the deployment of low-cost sensors to the hands of citizens virtually anywhere who can observe and record environmental conditions and report them. Jay Benforado, chief innovation officer in EPA's Office of Research and Development, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 29, 2016 -
Ever since people could count birds or measure celestial phenomena, they've been contributors to science thanks to their observational skills. At the Environmental Protection Agency, planners wanted to take this idea of disbursed people observing conditions around them to a new level. It's called citizen science. Tom Burke, deputy assistant administrator, senior science adviser and head of EPA's research and development, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 29, 2016 -
Anne Rung, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, sent a memo to all CFO Act agencies detailing the requirements for the new labs as well as announcing a pilot to expand the use of digital acquisition capabilities across the government.
March 10, 2016 -
More than a year after agencies first began embedding digital services teams into their organizations, IT leaders are seeing the benefits of adopting a more agile, incremental mentality -- rather than bending to old policies and standard protocols.
March 02, 2016 -
Agencies need clearer hiring authorities from the Office of Personnel Management to successfully recruit and hire new tech talent, said Beth Killoran, acting CIO at the Health and Human Services Department. HHS has a 40 percent vacancy rate among its cyber and IT infrastructure workforce.
February 18, 2016 -
Here's a breakdown of major agencies and the proposed funding amounts for fiscal 2017, which are included the President Obama's $1.1 trillion budget.
February 09, 2016 -
Sandy Peavy retired from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center as its CIO. Former EPA IT executive Brand Niemann passed away at 74.
February 08, 2016 -
At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, members and witnesses grilled the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) for relaying inaccurate information to EPA officials, but also laid blame on the EPA for failing to investigate more closely once signs of misconduct became clear.
February 03, 2016 -
The CIO Council is trying to bring the capital planning and investment control (CPIC) process in line with the desire by agencies to use agile development for IT programs.
January 25, 2016 -
A Region 5 email reads like CYA, not someone with the power to do something, jumping in and helping with the real problem.
January 22, 2016 -
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA to set standards for drinking water. It's safe to say, what was coming out of the taps in Flint doesn't qualify.
January 18, 2016 -
Data has become the life blood of decision-making at many federal agencies. Greg Godbout is one of the leaders in federal data adoption. Now the chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, he's helping decision-making at both the federal and state levels. Federal Drive with Tom Temin interviewed Godbout and the agency's chief data scientist, Robin Thottungal, for an update on data initiatives. Godbout explained how data innovation can keep federal executives from making bad decisions on what they don't really know.
December 01, 2015 -
Even for long-serving federal managers, moving from one federal department to another can produce some surprises. Systems, cultures, people might all be different. Just a few short weeks into her job as NASA chief information officer, Renee Wynn has a lot of work to do. Recently decamped from EPA, she compared the two agencies for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
November 30, 2015