Tracking the Transition
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President Obama's 2.1 percent pay hike may be the last feds see for awhile from Congress, says Jeff Neal, former DHS chief human capital officer.
January 10, 2017 -
Both members of Congress and the Office of Government Ethics are attempting to get their hands around what was once an arcane federal ethics issue: discretionary trusts, and whether an executive branch employee's interests in one violates the criminal conflict of interest statute.
January 09, 2017 -
The U.S. Secret Service might be taking the lead on Inauguration Day, but the FBI Washington Field Office is prepared to offer whatever support is needed to the agents who will be working to prevent and protect against domestic threats.
January 09, 2017 -
Read Rex Tillerson's financial and ethics reporting forms to get an idea of how wealthy nominees live and how their lives change in order to join an administration.
January 09, 2017 -
Boeing and Lockheed have both responded to complaints by President-elect Donald Trump over the cost of signature airplane projects. But what does this say about how contracting much less Defense policy will operate under the Trump administration? For some answers, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analytics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
January 09, 2017 -
Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, said in an exit interview that the update to Circular A-130 and the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) are among the most significant accomplishments during his almost two-year tenure, which will end Jan. 17.
January 06, 2017 -
President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a role that would thrust him into the center of the intelligence community that Trump has publicly challenged, a person with knowledge of the decision said Thursday.
January 06, 2017 -
Many feds have finally accepted that Donald Trump is going to be their next boss. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey looks to history for an answer of what that might mean going forward.
January 06, 2017 -
The Commission on Cybersecurity for the 45th President detailed 250 recommendations, including creating a specific cybersecurity agency within DHS and a new independent unit of auditors to stress test agency networks.
January 05, 2017 -
Two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration has highlighted some of the management milestones it's achieved over the last eight years.
January 05, 2017 -
The Office of Personnel Management says it's spent the past eight years working within the confines of current laws and regulations to modernize the federal personnel system and help agencies better recruit, hire and retain talented employees. But as the Obama administration winds down, OPM suggested that future administrations should more seriously discuss reform to those civil service regulations.
January 05, 2017 -
With the the chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board resigning in less than a week, employees appealing their disciplinary actions will have to be patient as they wait for President-elect Donald Trump to appoint at least one member for a quorum.
January 04, 2017 -
President-elect Donald Trump watched four F-35s fly over the Army-Navy Game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Forty-eight hours later, he fired off a tweet that would cost the company that built the F-35 nearly $4 billion.
January 02, 2017 -
Guest columnist Steve Hellem posits a different approach for feds worried about how to deal with the incoming Trump administration.
December 27, 2016 -
Presidential transitions can be perilous, but they can also be opportunities to better engage the workforce and get things done. Margot Conrad, director of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, which last week came out with its annual rankings of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, offers her take on the transition on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 21, 2016