Transportation Department

HHS, Health and Human Services, building, exterior

Like it or not, your ugly federal office building beckons

After something like 8,000 Federal Drive with Tom Temin interviews over the years, I really can’t name a single favorite. This past week, though, the most…

Federal Report

DoT aims to layer cybersecurity into infrastructure grants process

Cybersecurity

The effects of the expected storm reflects the lack of traffic on Sunrise Highway was to minimum at Mt Laguna on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 in San Diego, Calif. A surge of clouds and showers associated with Tropical Storm Kay off Mexico's Baja California peninsula knocked the edge off temperatures in Southern California at times but also were a potential problem for solar generation. The storm was downgraded from a hurricane Thursday evening. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Meet the new head of the Federal Highway Administration

People

Why railroads avoid a federal safety incident reporting system

Agency Oversight

Unleashing the power of data

Federal Insights

A federally funded lab comes up with a potential solution to safe use of drones in the national air space

Technology

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New CISOs come on board at VA, Transportation

Reporter's Notebook

Small business contract awards in 2021 reach all-time high

Contracting

FILE - In this March 11, 2019, file photo, wreckage is piled at the crash scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer Yonas Yeshanew, who is seeking asylum in the U.S., says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included routinely signing off on shoddy repairs. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

After Boeing 737 Max crashes, GAO looked at European standards for plane certifications

Agency Oversight

Return-to-office plans a major cause for decline in 2021 Best Places to Work results

Workforce

FILE - People attend Juneteenth celebrations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, on June 19, 2021. Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Federal agencies commemorate Juneteenth holiday

Workforce

Norman Mineta, transportation secretary in 9/11 era, dies

Norman Mineta, who as federal transportation secretary ordered commercial flights grounded after the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, has died

People

Innovation in federal agencies is hard, but possible with these tips

Two former federal technology executives offer advice for how they successfully drove innovation at the departments of Transportation and Veterans Affairs.

Reporter's Notebook

Transportation Department Inspector General Eric Soskin

Search for Accountability

This week, Michael Binder spoke with Eric Soskin, inspector general for the Transportation Department.