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TMF leaders say investments must keep pace with growing technical debt challenge

Clare Martorana, the federal chief information officer chairwoman of the Technology Modernization Fund Board, and Raylene Yung, the executive director…

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FILE - This 1990 aerial file photo, shows a section of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska that has patches of bare land where clear-cutting has occurred. The U.S. Forest Service announced plans Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, to lift restrictions on road building and logging in Tongass National Forest, a largely pristine rainforest in southeast Alaska that provides habitat for wolves, bears and salmon. Conservation groups vowed to fight the decision. (Hall Anderson/Ketchikan Daily News via AP, File)

FAA conducting a pilot program that doesn’t include human pilot

Federal Newscast

NASA

NASA explores the future of an airspace filled with flying taxis

Automation

Congress takes up more of the budget this week…and a few repeals

Budget

FILE - In this June 19, 2015 file photo, Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration building is seen in Washington. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday, June 2, 2021 that Ali Bahrami, the head of FAA's aviation safety office, will step down at the end of June. Bahrami was among FAA officials who were criticized by lawmakers and relatives of passengers on Boeing Max jets that crashed. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

The Transportation Department maps out its next five years of research

Acquisition Policy

The CIO shuffle continues at two agencies

Federal Newscast

(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress is on recess this week, so nothing too bad can happen

Congress

FAA says it’s implemented fixes to avoid repeat of IT failure that halted air traffic

Technology

Looking for help with space regulations?

The Space Hour

The true price of technology debt

Commentary

What the FAA messaging system debacle said to all federal contractors

Technology

A plane takes off behind the air traffic control tower at San Francisco International Airport during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The obscure system that personifies the need for modernization

The NOTAM messaging system that grounded all U.S. flights cries out for modernization.

Tom Temin Commentary

FILE - The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Friday, August 5, 2022. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, a compromise less ambitious than Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

For all of the noise, the new Congress is still getting itself organized

Committees are forming, hearing schedules still being worked out. You might say the blob that is the 118th Congress still hasn’t quite jelled. Yet it has…

Congress

Speaking of the House: What’s in store for the 118th Congress?

Congress

Besides the tragedy-comedy drama over selection of a House Speaker, there is a rather potent agenda for the 118th Congress. Authorizations. Appropriations are so far off. Debt ceiling. And the gambits Republicans in the house are hoping to launch.