FEMA

Even Presidential Rank Awardees must deal with the TSP web site

A simple list of names doesn’t do justice to Presidential Rank Awardees, plus GAO launches look-see into TSP snafus

Tom Temin Commentary

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Navy CDO Sasala jumps ship to the Army

Reporter's Notebook

National Guard personnel under Title 32 duty status, in which the federal government funds 100% of the cost for the troops. Over 28,000 activated National Guard troops are helping state and local governments with: 🔹 Logistical support in warehouses to support food distribution 🔹 Medical screening and testing 🔹 Supporting correctional facilities Learn more about this and other types of federal support for COVID-19 response:

Meet the guy who makes sure FEMA arrives at a disaster fully prepared

Workforce

(AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

When it comes to its workforce, FEMA has some work to do

Agency Oversight

GAO calls on FEMA to help more people in need of rebuilding their homes

Federal Newscast

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How two letters of the alphabet blew an award protest into a court case

Contracts/Awards

Meet the FEMA administrator who ensured millions got COVID vaccines early on

Management

IRS could have trouble spending billions of Inflation Reduction Act dollars on new employees

Federal Newscast

President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Biden names FEMA, CDC officials to head monkeypox response

President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve…

People

FEMA’s enterprise cloud services potentially could lower costs by 30%-to-40%

Jim Rodd, FEMA’s cloud portfolio manager, said his office developed a chargeback model for cloud service that received strong feedback from external experts.

Ask the CIO

Five ways to improve FOIA estimated completion dates

Open Data/Transparency

Agency public information officers can take advantage of setting estimated dates of completion to identify unwanted pages and speed up processing times.