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Calculations about whether to leave federal service, for many federal career people, tend to juggle the financial considerations. What's the best month, the best health plan, the optimal TSP withdrawal strategy if you're about to retire?
Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Biden administration takes action to make sure public research results are available to the public. And the Air Force is partnering with NASA for experiments aboard the International Space Station.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, does telework help or hurt diversity efforts? And was the Coast-Guard-connected couple in Hawaii in the spying business?
Also in today's Federal Newscast, Congress is going after sexual misconduct in Junior ROTC programs.
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 as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak
Jim Rodd, FEMA’s cloud portfolio manager, said his office developed a chargeback model for cloud service that received strong feedback from external experts.
Agency public information officers can take advantage of setting estimated dates of completion to identify unwanted pages and speed up processing times.
AmeriCorps is the government's premier agency for engaging volunteers of all ages to help with the nation's pressing problems. At the end of last year, it got an energetic new CEO when the Senate confirmed Michael Smith
The federal government has world class engineering expertise in its ranks. The same is true of public health expertise. What it does not have is a standing capability to fuse those two disciplines together with behavioral science to help inform agency's response to crises, at least until now. A brand new organization called the Engineering for Public Health and Human Factors Center or EPH is now up and running within the Army Corps of Engineers.
The innovative world of Internet of Things (IoT) means industry and government can build things better, stronger faster. They can gather more information, and quickly integrate it. However, there is a price to moving that much data around at that speed. It also means keeping pace with the security concerns in a sophisticated, quickly-evolving environment.
By the end of the fiscal year, FEMA plans to put about 26 systems in the cloud as a way to improve mission and citizen services.
The nation’s national security may be taking a hit because of the length of time it takes to fill lesser-known, Senate-confirmed positions in the Defense Department, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security and other areas protecting U.S. citizens.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management released a new federal workforce plan.
The new policy is aimed at ensuring FEMA employees are properly categorized under the Fair Labor Standards Act.