National Science Foundation
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Two federal science agencies have together launched a plan to bolster U.S. strength in a field known as quantum information science and technology. The Office of Science and Technology Policy, part of the White House crew, and the National Science Foundation parted with a group called the National Q-12 Education Partnership to, as they put it, explore training and education opportunities in quantum.
February 11, 2022 -
With all the scores hovering around average, what does the new federal employee Pulse Survey really say?
January 21, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, auditors for the Department of Veterans Affairs say the data Veterans Affairs is using to measure its capacity to provide specialty health care might not be accurate.
December 21, 2021 -
Of the agency reentry plans that Federal News Network recently reviewed, it's mostly managers and supervisors who appear primed to return to the office, at least for a day or two a week, in early January.
December 20, 2021 -
NSF's financial staff developed an artificial intelligence application called the Financial Obligation Root Cause Explorer, or FORCE. It won the innovation award from the Association of Government Accountants.
December 16, 2021 -
Agencies say they're trying to become more flexible, attract private sector workers looking for a change and retain current federal employees wanting to keep what they got a taste of during the pandemic.
November 10, 2021 -
Agency inspectors general are getting closer to gaining the authority to question former federal employees and contractors as part of their investigations.
October 21, 2021 -
As they continue to assess the state of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility within their organizations, some agencies are adding more people and resources to their DEIA initiatives, efforts they say are designed to embed these principles "within the fabric" of the federal government.
September 27, 2021 -
When fully implemented, the new risk management platform Argus will reduce the time spent manually monitoring HUD’s program grantees by over 75%.
September 22, 2021 -
The White House earlier this year launched a National Intelligence Research Resource Task Force, run out of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation.
September 20, 2021 -
The National Science Foundation named the newest leader of its Directorate for Engineering. For the past 4 years, Susan Margulies had been a professor of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
September 09, 2021 -
CDOs are working on how to establish a stronger foundation or framework to ensure processes and data management are meeting specific standards in order to facilitate easy data sharing.
August 26, 2021 -
NIST, in a request for information posted Wednesday, said the upcoming framework will define trustworthy AI in terms of transparency, fairness and accountability.
July 28, 2021 -
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Allison Lerner, who assumed the duties as Inspector General of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in April 2009.
July 27, 2021 -
Under the 2020 National AI Initiative Act, the task force will look at how to expand access to AI education and other critical resources. The task force includes members from NIST, the Energy Department and top universities.
June 15, 2021