The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is also expected to take up legislation authorizing a government reorganization next week.
With age comes a need for an upgrade, so three major federal workforce groups are coming together to propose changes to the Senior Executive Service.
Federal employees may not be enjoying the best labor relations at the moment, but many will still work on Labor Day.
Without data, the Department of Transportation was having a hard time doing research and planning on autonomous and automated vehicles. But then Ariel Gold arrived.
Federal News Radio explores how an evolving federal workforce has been bound by the constraints of a 40-year-old civil service system that largely hasn't changed at all since 1978.
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act is mostly about Defense Department matters but at more than 1,000 pages it contains provisions for all federal agencies.
Toxicology is a complicated field to say the least. Analyzing chemicals to identify which ones are potentially harmful to humans and wildlife can be an arduous process.
Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president for research and evaluation at the Partnership for Public Service, shared more on the new language and what it means on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
When simultaneous floods and fire wrecked two northern cities and forced 50,000 people to evacuate, Judy DesHarnais at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took action. SHe's a finalist for this year's Sammies.
In just a few weeks, interns throughout the federal government will be departing to return to school.
Joe Doyle, the director of the Office of Customer Experience at USDA, said he expects the agency can make its services "faster, friendlier and easier" without asking for additional funding from Congress, or without much help from the private sector.
Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president for research and evaluation at the Partnership for Public Service, spoke more on the subject on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Veterans Affairs Department has a shortage of medical professionals, but it also lacks the human resources expertise and flexibility it needs to bring top talent in more quickly.
Margot Conrad of the Partnership for Public Service said it's important to adapt government to a younger workforce with changing expectations.
Agencies working together just might be the secret sauce for improving the federal acquisitions process.