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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 file photo, National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini speaks to the National Governors Association Winter Meeting Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee, in Washington. Uccellini, who has been the director of the National Weather Service for more than eight years, says he will retire at the end of 2021. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

The man behind the nation’s weather forecasting operations says farewell

Dr. Louis Uccellini has spent more than 40 years as a federal weather practitioner, first at NASA and then at the National Weather Service, where he’s…

People

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden management agenda seeks to elevate federal work

Federal Report

Now that the infrastructure bill has passed, the Senate turns its attention to the NDAA

Federal Newscast

Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 8 – Leadership Award Winners

Accelerating Government

NASA might need to change its name to the space and food agency

Management

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Time for the ‘great resignation?’ Not for the federal government, CHCOs say

Workforce

Helping connect NASA with small businesses

The Space Hour

Could AI help stave off the brain drain of federal retirement?

Retirement

The Capitol is seen from the Russell Senate Office Building during a delay in work on the Democrats' $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats unveil 2022 appropriations bills, back Biden’s planned federal pay raise

Budget

Web of policies not syncing up into single federal AI strategy, report warns

Artificial Intelligence

Agencies looking for industry ideas on tracking vaccinations among their employees

Federal Newscast

Research shows NIST, ISO supply chain standards have up to 89% overlap of risk controls

Joanne Woytek, the program director for NASA SEWP, said understanding how NIST SP 800-161 and ISO 20243 can work together will help agencies and contractors.

Acquisition Policy

NASA’s future of work plan starts with the ‘experimental phase’

NASA is taking the next several months to “experiment” with employee telework and remote arrangements before making big investment or divestment decisions.

Workforce

This is an illustration provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Jeff Bezos has lost his appeal of NASA's contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its new moon lander. The Government Accountability Office Friday, July 30, 2021 ruled that NASA's award of the $2.9 billion contract to just SpaceX was legal and proper.(SpaceX/NASA via AP)

Turbulence in a NASA contract to build a new lunar landing vehicle

Contracting

A series of protests over a $3 billion award to SpaceX has turned up a lot of issues, as the Federal Drive with Tom Temin heard from Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney Joe Petrillo.