The executive action raises the profile of senior career officials at scientific agencies, seeks to increase transparency around agency research and regulations and makes federal data sets more accessible to researchers.
The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden's first year as president.
The riots and the inauguration behind it, Congress has barely settled into the next session. With only a few bills actually introduced, the Senate is mainly concerned with the Biden administration confirmations for the moment.
Already there are quite a few noticeable differences between the Biden and Trump administrations. Biden's mask mandate for federal employees and contractors - and the creation of a centralized pandemic task force for the workforce - is just one example.
The newly minted commander-in-chief offered up hope to civil servants as the administration kicks off a new era of federal agency leadership.
President Joe Biden took executive action Friday to repeal at least four Trump-era executive orders that limited collective bargaining and stripped certain job protections from career federal employees.
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Biden has a chance to appoint people who will address systemic personnel issues in the military.
In today's Federal Newscast, the White House tells agencies to hold off on publishing any new rules until after President Biden’s appointees have had a chance to review them.
The inauguration showed continuity reflected in the building where it took place.
With a new administration in place, for better or worse depending on where you stand, the view of federal employees may shift after a rocky 4 years.
In a slew of executive actions on his first day in office, President Joe Biden reinstated previously-canceled diversity and inclusion training for federal employees and issued a mask mandate for those working inside government buildings.
With ongoing threats of violence, tomorrow's inauguration presents extra challenges on the security front.
Buried in the next pandemic spending proposal from Joe Biden are big dollars for federal IT.
The National Treasury Employees Union said it will push agencies at the bargaining table, as well as the new administration and Congress through legislation or new policy, to consider making telework arrangements and remote work programs permanent.