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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former chief knowledge officers says the presidential transition is a good time to reassess how information is shared among employees, managers and administrations.
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.
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.
The Office of Information Policy published data on FOIA request processing from the annual reports of 100 agencies.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said federal employees wouldn't worry so much about changing locality pay, if Congress passed higher, across the board pay raises overall. He called for a 5.3 percent bump in pay next year, well over the 1.6 percent raise President Barack Obama proposed in his 2017 budget request.
The provision tells agencies to show how program performance metrics are tied to priority goals.