Food and Drug Administration
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According to budget documents that Federal News Radio obtained, the Food and Drug Administration would see $40 million in cuts to employee salaries and administrative expenses during the last five months of fiscal 2017. The Homeland Security Department would lose $41 million for the Financial Systems Modernization program, a shared services effort affiliated with the Interior Department's Interior Business Center.
March 29, 2017 -
Advocating data center consolidation and optimization as a priority could be a tough sell to the Donald Trump administration, but the federal IT community has courted the White House by framing the issue within the narrative of the president's soon-to-emerge cybersecurity executive order.
March 23, 2017 -
If you added them all together, the K-12 schools operated by the Defense Department would be one of the nation's biggest districts. That's just one of the services available elsewhere that maybe the military ought to get out of.
March 13, 2017 -
For many years, researchers at the Army Institute of Surgical Research have concentrated on what they call compensatory reserve. That is, how much blood loss can a person sustain and the body still compensate. Dr. Victor Convertino, senior scientist at the Institute, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the Army, in concert with the FDA, has developed a new device that can help prevent battlefield deaths.
March 07, 2017 -
President Donald Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress offered few new insights into his management agenda, only reiterating his desire to reduce regulations.
March 01, 2017 -
Elizabeth Curda, acting director for health issues at GAO, says overcrowding of the more than 10,000 workers at the Food and Drug Administration's White Oak Campus in Maryland could cause security problems. Curda joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the concern and FDA business pla
January 24, 2017 -
The Food and Drug Administration's headquarters in White Oak, Maryland needs some work to address cramped office space and a lack of parking spots. But government auditors say the agency needs to do a better job linking its strategic mission with future facilities plans.
January 06, 2017 -
President Barack Obama and senior administration leaders celebrated the achievements from the federal workforce over the past eight years. In his final days in office, Obama asked federal employees to think back to the moment they decided to join public service and encouraged them to continue their work as his administration leaves and another takes its place.
December 13, 2016 -
The Food and Drug Administration has a special, streamlined process for approving generics. Trouble is, the public announcements of FDA's decisions often get bottled up. Attorney Kurt Karst, a director at Hyman, Phelps and McNamara, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that irritates and frustrates everyone, including drug companies, investors, federal judges and the public.
December 09, 2016 -
The 21st Century Cures Act is now wrapping up in Congress and headed to the President's desk. It would profoundly change how the Food and Drug Administration goes about its principal work of approving drugs and medical devices. Dr. Tom Coburn, former Oklahoma senator and now a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the bill and its goals.
December 08, 2016 -
Beth Killoran, the Department of Health and Human Services chief information officer, said a new agencywide IT strategic plan will make it easier for agency components to head in the same direction over the next few years.
November 04, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has a major shortage of in-house talent.
November 04, 2016 -
Former chief knowledge officers says the presidential transition is a good time to reassess how information is shared among employees, managers and administrations.
August 24, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Library of Congress says it successfully defended its network from from a denial of service attack on its network, and the House Oversight Committee wants to know how many political appointees have converted to full-time employees.
July 21, 2016 -
Being on GAO's high-risk list isn't meant to be a life sentence for agencies and programs. The list is a way to encourage agencies to take improvement actions on their own and lead by example.
June 17, 2016