State Department
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The Office of Management and Budget is expected to release a new memo in the next month or so detailing new goals and a strategy for shared services.
March 25, 2019 -
Ryan Cote joined the Transportation Department on Feb. 4 after spending most of his career in the private sector.
March 18, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a group of nearly 40 senators are urging the appropriations committee to include back pay for federal contractors impacted by the last government shutdown, in an upcoming disaster relief package.
March 11, 2019 -
A State Department program is designed to bring in people from high paying jobs in the private sector, but according to Jenna Ben-Yehuda of the Women's Foreign Policy Network, that has the potential to widen a gender pay gap.
March 08, 2019 -
The fiscal 2019 spending bill increases funding for the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program by more than $37 million.
February 25, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a federal retiree who says the state of West Virginia unfairly taxed his annuity income.
February 21, 2019 -
Within the next decade “nearly all” of the current senior Foreign Service members will be eligible to retire, as will 80 percent of the current Civil Service’s SES, according to the agency’s five-year Workforce and Leadership Succession Plan.
February 20, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Agriculture Department's Inspector General found the U.S. Forest Service is not quickly acting on sexual assault and harassment allegations.
February 19, 2019 -
In the omnibus spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week, CIOs at the Agriculture and State departments received specific empowerments provisions.
February 18, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, President Donald Trump hints that another government shutdown is likely after funding runs out again in three weeks.
January 28, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agency leaders are being asked to provide a list of what programs will be effected if the current partial government shutdown goes into March and April.
January 24, 2019 -
The Agriculture Department plans to reopen all Farm Service Agency offices for the duration of the partial government shutdown, on the same day a temporary plan to reopen select agency offices was set to expire.
January 22, 2019 -
National Commission on Military, National and Public Services rolls out ideas amid the longest partial government shutdown ever.
January 22, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Representative TJ Cox's (D-CA) first introduced legislation in Congress is meant to ease the financial hardship furloughed federal employees are currently enduring.
January 21, 2019 -
The shutdown has created a kaleidoscopic of open, sort-of-open and closed federal operations. As it spins, the effects spread wider and wider.
January 10, 2019