State Department
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The Partnership for Public Service took a closer look at the data from the 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and discovered that feds aren't too happy with their leaders. Senior leaders especially received low rankings from federal employees.
April 26, 2012 -
Danny Toler becomes the second State Department official to go to the Homeland Security Department's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications since January. He also is the second high ranking official to join DHS in the last week.
April 24, 2012 -
NASA is looking for ways to re-purpose waste in space, and the space agency is turning to innovators to come up with some ideas.
April 10, 2012 -
A contest sponsored by the State Department mobilized people online to find and photograph three individual (fictional) criminal suspects in five global cities in just 12 hours.
April 09, 2012 -
For the first time in 20 years, audits reviewed and gave an opinion for every civilian agency. Only DoD doesn\'t have a qualified or clean audit opinion.
November 21, 2011 -
Tom Shoop, editor-in-chief of Gov Exec, explains why these agencies are so appealing.
November 15, 2011 -
The Postal Service will stop accepting mail addressed to military post offices in Iraq starting Nov. 17th. Those responsibilities will transition to State Department embassy or consulate post offices.
October 27, 2011 -
Would you take a buyout if the boss offered you one? You might want to decide now because if and when an offer comes, it won\'t be on the table very long, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
October 25, 2011 -
Kirit Amin, the departing chief information officer at the State Department\'s Bureau of Consular Affairs offers a \"compete and sincere\" apology to foreign service officers, who he derided in an interview this week with Federal News Radio. Amin says it is unfortunate that he shared private feelings in a public forum.
October 07, 2011 -
Daniel Hirsch, state vice president of AFSA, took exception to comments from Kirit Amin, the chief information officer of the State Department\'s Bureau of Consular Affair, about Foreign Service Officers.
October 05, 2011 -
An organization representing Foreign Service members says cuts to the State Department\'s international affairs should come in programs and not people.
October 05, 2011 -
Mike welcomes Susan Johnson of the American Foreign Service Association and Steve Losey and Sean Reilly of the Federal Times. October 5, 2011
October 05, 2011 -
The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Amy Morris discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.
October 05, 2011 -
Kirit Amin stepped down suddenly after four years as the CIO of the Bureau of Consular Affairs to take a 120-day reassignment with the State Department CIO. He decried \"cronyism and nepotism\" at the State Department and said the bureau has entered into bad contracts. \"The duplication and waste in government is phenomenal, and I was not going to put up with that crap nor will I put up with contractors who will rip off the government,\" Amin told Federal News Radio.
October 05, 2011 -
The Thanksgiving turkeys delivered to the White House may have a much happier holiday than many federal workers, who could be getting a very big dose of bad news, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
October 05, 2011