pandemic

• The Agriculture Department finds good use for millions of dollars to monitor animals and protect people

  USDA wants to catch potential COVID-19 and other zoonotically originating diseases by keeping on top of animals susceptible to them.

  Management

  September 27, 2021
• Virtual immigration hearings during COVID could have gone better, GAO says

  The pandemic created big challenges for the nation’s immigration courts, which are used to doing business in person. Inconsistent policies and a lack of stakeholder engagement made things more difficult than they needed to be.

  Agency Oversight

  September 22, 2021
• Bureau of the Fiscal Service seeks to issue nearly all payments electronically by 2030

  The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service sees an opportunity to modernize the way it does business, after spending much of the COVID-19 pandemic getting stimulus payments out to the public.

  Big Data

  September 20, 2021
• Veterans Affairs has a staffing model, but does the department use it

  VA has a model for staffing. But the VA Office of Inspector General finds the model somehow fails to translate into a clear picture of staffing requirements.

  Veterans Affairs

  September 16, 2021
• Defense Department looks to buy more monoclonal antibodies

  In today's Federal Newscast, a major contract from the Pentagon to purchase more doses of one of the only proven treatments of COVID-19.

  Federal Newscast

  September 16, 2021
• Hazards of self-certification and other lessons learned from federal government’s pandemic response

  As federal pandemic response lumbers along, the lessons learned are piling up.

  Agency Oversight

  September 15, 2021
• Pentagon looks to address supply chain issues exposed by pandemic

  In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon is launching a two-year effort to fix supply chain problems.

  Federal Newscast

  September 07, 2021
• How the bean-counters helped the government through the pandemic

  It took a lot of technology work to keep the government operating remotely through the pandemic. But what about the finances of it all?

  Workforce

  September 03, 2021
• Teleworking here to stay: What’s in it for you?

  Mike Causey asked a couple of dozen faithful readers the same question: What about the office of the future from your standpoint? 

  Federal Report

  September 02, 2021
• What the US is learning — if anything — from defending against biological attacks

  If the government learned anything from the pandemic, it's that an outbreak from nature has much in common with a biological attack — at least in terms of preparedness and response.

  Defense

  September 01, 2021
• Bipartisan infrastructure bill would end a pandemic credit for small businesses

  The bill would end the Employee Retention Credit Program, one of several credits Congress created earlier in the pandemic to help small businesses, with the change to take effect on Sept. 30.

  Congress

  August 25, 2021
• Labor Dept. trying to help states fix pandemic unemployment claims crunch

  Michele Evermore, senior policy adviser on unemployment insurance at the Labor Department, talked about some of the efforts now underway via the American Rescue Plan.

  Workforce

  August 25, 2021
• USPS sees steep decline in revenue due to lack of passport applications during pandemic

  In today's Federal Newscast, the Postal Service saw a more than 30% decrease in passport applications last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Federal Newscast

  August 24, 2021
• Agencies embracing cloud for records digitization, virtual reality during and after pandemic

  Since last year, the Labor Department has adjusted its approach to collaboration while the Air Force is using more virtual and augmented reality.

  Cloud Computing

  August 13, 2021