Transportation Department

New CISOs come on board at VA, Transportation

No fewer than six agencies over the last six weeks promoted or hired new executives to focus on cybersecurity challenges, demonstrating the continued demand…

Reporter's Notebook

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

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

People

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

Reporter's Notebook

Transportation Department Inspector General Eric Soskin

Search for Accountability

That omnibus bill maybe should be called the omni-train, gravy train

Congress

FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation

People

Working from home, do you actually dress after your shower?

Federal Report

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, a sign welcomes visitors at the entrance to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. Seven suspended men's soccer players at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy will face campus disciplinary hearings over allegations of sexual misconduct, coercion and hazing, according to a federal lawyer. Newsday reported on July 22, 2017, that Assistant U.S. Attorney James H. Knapp said the students were sexually abusive toward a freshman player on the team bus in September 2-17, and they squirted water or urine plus covered several people with food, (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File)

The Merchant Marine Academy confronts an urgent need to modernize itself

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy produces the nation’s trained and licensed maritime shipping workforce.

Defense

GSA relinquishes control of the ‘dot-gov’ domain to CISA

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration formally gives up its management of the Internet’s “dot-gov” top-level domain today.

Federal Newscast

Number of feds who telework regularly went up in 2020 but not as much as expected

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, while COVID-19 drove a majority of federal workers out of the office in 2020, new data from the Office of Personnel Management shows the increase in teleworking wasn’t as dramatic as expected.