Justice Department
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The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act made it through the defense authorization bill conference intact.
November 13, 2017 -
If confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen would inherit a department that just reversed a six-year trend of declining employee engagement scores.
November 08, 2017 -
Twenty-two open government organizations are looking to help expand public access to information, and at the same time lessen the paperwork burden on agencies.
November 06, 2017 -
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz says the hope is to spin off a page that looks at disaster assistance funds.
October 10, 2017 -
The National Archives also issued a memo clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the Senior Agency Official for Records Management.
October 02, 2017 -
Justice Department spending on analytics software grew by a third in the last two years and at the Homeland Security Department, it rose by 50 percent.
October 02, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, using lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department has formed a task force to go after those looking to take advantage of Hurricane Harvey survivors.
September 01, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Navy Cmdr. Bobby Pitts admits to helping Glen Defense Marine Asia CEO Leonard Francis during the investigation into the defense contractor.
August 16, 2017 -
More than seven months into the Trump administration, the Justice Department is still waiting for a permanent official to lead its antitrust division. But the White House isn’t to blame for this particular delay.
August 10, 2017 -
Federal Drive's Tom Temin encounters a powerful reminder from a small church.
August 08, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a former officer with the Drug Enforcement Administration admits to taking part in a robbery disguised as a standard search.
July 21, 2017 -
Greg Hall, the assistant director and chief information security officer in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in the Justice Department, said the office hired Okta to provide a cloud service to federate its identity management capabilities.
June 22, 2017 -
Agency leaders are reviewing tens of thousands of comments from their employees and the public on ways to make government more effective and efficient. In speaking with their workforces about their ideas, most leaders say the focus has generally been on how the agency can better deliver the mission and services to the public, not on forthcoming personnel cuts.
June 15, 2017 -
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) blasted a recent opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which urges executive branches to respond only to inquires from congressional committee chairman. Some Cabinet-level secretaries have said they would not abide by the OLC policy.
June 09, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General reports that though the number of allegations is low, DoJ has systemic issues with how it handles sexual harassment and misconduct claims.
June 02, 2017