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General Services Administration acting Administrator Tim Horne told a congressional subcommittee the FBI headquarters project is cancelled, but not completely out of the running. Horne said the Trump Organization is in full compliance when it comes to the Old Post Office lease.
July 12, 2017 -
The FBI joins a growing list of agencies that thought they were going to escape crumbling, obsolete buildings. A deal to trade its downtown headquarters to a developer and move to Maryland or Virginia is dead for now. Chris Lu knows what that feels like. As former deputy secretary of Labor, he was involved in a potential swap of the aging Perkins Building that also fell through. He shares his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 12, 2017 -
After the collapse of the FBI headquarters project, will some sort of sanity or regulation ever come to federal construction?
July 12, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has proposed a detailed set of recommendations for the White House to boost faith in the legitimacy of government by improving its effectiveness.
July 11, 2017 -
The government abandoned its current plan to replace the FBI's Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters, leaving employees in the deteriorating J. Edgar Hoover Building for the foreseeable future.
July 11, 2017 -
Imagine cheating taxpayers out of millions and millions of dollars, and at the same time, deliberately misdiagnosing hundreds of patients just for the purpose of stealing. Unfortunately such people are out there. But there's one less now, thanks to the efforts of Bryan Drake. Drake is a special agent on the FBI Doctor Fata investigative team and a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss his process.
June 23, 2017 -
Ethical people don't need a code of ethics, while crooks and cheaters don't care whether you have one.
June 20, 2017 -
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey tells of a hair-raising encounter with Robert S. Mueller, the new special counsel at the Justice Department looking into the “possible coordination” between associates of President Donald Trump and Russian officials.
May 19, 2017 -
Swirling changes in leadership can have tough effects on the rank and file. That's what the FBI is dealing with right now as long-time career agent Andrew McCabe takes over as acting director. David Lewis, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares some of the management and workforce implications on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 12, 2017 -
The FBI director is sacked. Unusual event, lots of headline and cable TV consternation. Now what? In particular, how does such turmoil affect the rank and file? What should acting Director Andrew McCabe do to soothe things? Stephen Ryan, former federal prosecutor, now a partner at McDermott, Will and Emery, gives his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 11, 2017 -
The spending package gives the Homeland Security Department about $1.5 billion for border security activities for the remaining five months of the fiscal year. For civilian agencies, here are six other areas to take note of in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017.
May 01, 2017 -
The Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Counterterrorism Center are two federal components balancing opportunities and limitations on big data.
April 26, 2017 -
The FBI headquarters and Labor Department headquarters are just two exchange projects recently derailed. Auditors at the General Services Administration say the agency's Public Building Service must address several issues with the exchange program if it wants projects like those to be beneficial to the government and taxpayers.
April 11, 2017 -
On this edition of Columbia Technology Partner's Ready to Prime, Allen Scott discusses the contracting landscape with two people who know it very well.
March 31, 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