U.S. Agency for International Development
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A group of foreign policy experts assembled by the Atlantic Council advocates a "de-layered" State Department, saying the current structure is "unmanageable."
September 07, 2017 -
A USAID official said the CIO’s office worked directly with GAO to understand the exact nature and intent behind each metric, and prioritized and accelerated updates to address previous gaps.
June 26, 2017 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will release the fourth Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) report card June 13 detailing agency progress in implementing the 2015 law.
June 13, 2017 -
Rex Tillerson goes out on a limb when describing what will happen after State redesigns all of its work processes.
May 05, 2017 -
Three months into his tenure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke at length directly to career employees. That came just days after he called for a 3 percent reduction in headcount at State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, president of the American Foreign Service Association, offers her take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 05, 2017 -
Brandon Pusteojovsky, USAID’s chief data officer, said the agency is finalizing a new data library to create a central portal to collect, share and visualize information from around the world.
December 22, 2016 -
The U.S. Agency of International Development and the Government Accountability Office are teaming up to help strengthen what they call international accountability. Reginald Mitchell, USAID chief financial officer, and Janet St. Laurent, recently retired director of Defense Capabilities and Management at the GAO, join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share details.
May 05, 2016 -
OPM sent a memo encouraging federal managers to minimize travel to regions affected by Zika, suggesting teleconferencing as an alternative.
March 08, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is granting Direct-Hire Authority to certain federal agencies so they can fill needed jobs to fight the Zika threat.
March 04, 2016 -
Here's a breakdown of major agencies and the proposed funding amounts for fiscal 2017, which are included the President Obama's $1.1 trillion budget.
February 09, 2016 -
In today's news, federal employees can begin signing up for the self-plus one option in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program when the annual open season starts Nov. 9, Defense Secretary Ash Carter isn’t planning for sequestration as he works with the military services for the 2017 budget planning cycle, and four senators have repeated their call for President Barack Obama to name a permanent inspector general at the Veterans Affairs Department.
September 17, 2015 -
As team leader for USAID's Syrian food assistance program, Rob Thayer has been instrumental to helping to bring life-saving help to the region, with the U.S. providing $1.1 billion in food assistance so far.
June 30, 2015 -
Syria\'s four-year civil war leaves at least 7.6 million people without a home or sufficient food. Rob Thayer, the team leader of the Syrian food assistance program at the Office of Food for Peace at USAID, works with the United Nations World Food Program and other humanitarian partners to send and distribute more than $1.1 billion worth of food to Syrian refugees and displaced families within Syria. He and his team are finalists for a Service to America medal in the national security and international affairs category. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the challenges of entering this kind of humanitarian crisis.
June 04, 2015 -
The U.S. Agency for International Development is learning more about the countries it works with, thanks to a few new open data projects. The agency recently hosts its first-ever Open Data Hackathon. More than 100 participants worked on eight different projects. Alana Marsili, an open data specialist at USAID, led the Hackathon. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose about who participated.
June 04, 2015 -
The U.S. Agency for International Development wants to channel a river of big data into an analysis program that can power future management decisions. The agency has a request for information out to find ways to transform the data into a more useful and visually intuitive form. Mark Peterson is division chief for data and analytics at USAID. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he shared details on what kind of data USAID has and what it wants to do with it.
February 23, 2015