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Results 1 to 30Biden admin pushing ‘promise’ of AI for cyber defense
2024-09-07, 00:30White House officials are contemplating a new cybersecurity executive order that would focus on the use of artificial intelligence. Federal cybersecurity leaders, convening at the Billington Cybersecurity Conference in Washington this past week, described AI as both a major risk and a significant...
GSA moves forward with a new EPA, consistency is the next opportunity
2024-09-06, 20:17This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. On August 5, 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) took a step forward by publishing a final rule to “standardize and simplify...
House Republicans lead $3B VA supplement to fix year-end budget shortfall
2024-09-06, 18:29House Republicans are leading a supplemental funding bill to address a multi-billion-dollar budget crunch at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Leaders of the House Appropriations and House VA committees introduced a bill Friday that would give the VA $3 billion to ensure the department can keep...
A DARPA program to extend the life of low-orbit satellites
2024-09-06, 17:35Very low earth orbit satellites, known as VLEOs, have become important in a variety of surveillance and imaging applications. Trouble is, they’re so low, they don’t stay up very long without propulsion to keep them up. Eventually, they run out of fuel. That’s a problem the Defense...
Retirement from work isn’t retirement from life
2024-09-06, 17:35Retirement from a career should mean an exciting new phase in life — not a glidepath to the graveyard. Federal retirees tend to be a feisty group. One reason is they tend to prepare carefully. Retirement expert Tammy Flanagan joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some observations. Interview...
EPA union calls for temporary situational telework option
2024-09-06, 15:47A federal union is calling for temporary work-from-home options for staff at the Environmental Protection Agency. The push from the American Federation of Government Employees comes after reports of Legionella outbreaks at several EPA facilities across the country. The affected EPA buildings are...
SOCOM cuts years out of some SBIR phase 3 awards
2024-09-06, 13:59The U.S. Special Forces Command’s small business innovation research program is unique compared to other similar efforts around government. Congress gave SOCOM a special authority in 2021 to do business-to-business transitions through the SOFWERX organization. Lisa Sanders, the director of science...
Space Force officer training course to provide foundational intel, cyber skills
2024-09-06, 01:20The Space Force on Tuesday kicked off its first-ever Officer Training Course (OTC), marking a turning point in how the service trains and develops its next generation of officers. All newly commissioned officers entering the Space Force from the Air Force Academy, the Reserve Officer Training Corps...
Wildland firefighters at the Forest Service work beyond their job duties. Their union says that’s ...
2024-09-05, 23:14The Forest Service is readying plans to implement a new occupational series for federal wildland firefighters, but as the agency makes its way through the details, the National Federation of Federal Employees is raising concerns about accuracy of the updated job descriptions. In a letter addressed...
Since folks ask: How do you talk on the radio
2024-09-05, 23:14One requisite for talking on the radio or anywhere in public: Do you know what you’re talking about? Sounds like a loaded question. It’s not. If you’re a program manager talking about your new initiative, an auditor recounting a report or a policy analyst describing a new rule, of...
The Navy made a big mistake in a small business procurement
2024-09-05, 23:14In acquiring sonar equipment, the Navy didn’t go deep enough into the fine points of small business rules. In a small business set-aside, the question of whether an offeror could be a non-manufacturer showed just how complicated things can get. Haynes Boone procurement attorney Zach Prince...
USPS brings back holiday surcharge in bid to boost package revenue
2024-09-05, 23:14USPS, according to a filing submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission, expects these temporary price increases will help it bring in $77 million in additional package revenue in fiscal 2025, but result in the agency delivering 38 million fewer packages. USPS expects all its competitive products...
A Senate bill revives the official union time question
2024-09-05, 21:07Except for a brief few years during the Trump administration, federal employee unions have had official time for decades. Official time means federal employees can spend work time on union business such as filing grievances. A Senate bill filed by Utah Republican Mike Lee would outlaw official time....
Data analytics and informatics are key to improving health outcomes for CMS
2024-09-05, 21:07Health disparities remain a prime area of interest for federal health agencies, with a focus on initiatives that help identify gaps in care and find ways to bridge those divides. While there are a lot of moving parts that need to come together to improve health outcomes, data analytics will continue...
Trump says he’d create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk
2024-09-05, 21:07PHOENIX (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by billionaire Elon Musk, who would lead it. The commission is the latest attention-grabbing alliance between Trump and Musk, who...
IRS Direct File adds more states for 2025
2024-09-05, 21:07Taxpayers in Maryland can use the IRS’ free online tax-filing platform starting next year. The IRS is partnering with the state to roll out its Direct File platform to more than 700-thousand taxpayers. The IRS piloted Direct File with a dozen states during this year’s filing season. Now’s it’s...
Customs and Border Protection tests new global trading system standards
2024-09-05, 19:19International trade requires communications among widely diverse computer systems. A quality called interoperability is required to make trade work smoothly. Now, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is fielding new global interoperability standards with the hopes of testing them internationally next...
Ask the CIO: Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command
2024-09-05, 15:06In this�exclusive webinar edition of Ask the CIO, host Jason Miller and his guest, Shery Thomas,...
WH launches cyber hiring sprint to fill open tech roles
2024-09-05, 00:58The White House is pushing to fill hundreds of federal cyber, technology and artificial intelligence jobs in the coming months. The Office of the National Cyber Director today announced a “Service for America” hiring sprint. In a blog, National Cyber Director Harry Coker wrote that the sprint is...
VA hiring fell ‘significantly short’ of goals to expand substance abuse treatment for vets
2024-09-05, 00:58The Department of Veterans Affairs is falling short of its hiring goals in a multiyear effort to expand veterans’ access to substance use disorder treatment. The Veterans Health Administration launched a multiyear hiring initiative in fiscal 2022. VHA, in its 2022 budget request, told...
SSA leaning into e-signatures as way to cut mountain of mail
2024-09-05, 00:58The Social Security Administration receives about 30 million letters and packages from the Postal Service each year with forms and evidence from citizens applying for services. Each parcel takes about four minutes to open, scan and process. If you do the math, SSA employees are taking 120 million...
Congressional Research Service gets new leadership
2024-09-04, 23:09Congress' own think tank, the Congressional Research Service is getting new leadership. Foreign policy expert Karen Donfried (DAWN-freed) will become its director starting Sept. 23. She’ll take over for an interim leader who’s held the top job for more than a year. Donfried previously served as...
Can DoD, military services make the CX leap?
2024-09-04, 23:09Another FTC rule is in trouble, at least industry hopes so
2024-09-04, 21:03A Federal Trade Commission rule against employee noncompete clauses was supposed to take effect this week, but a Texas federal court issued an injunction against it. The Supreme Court ruling that ended court deference to federal agency regulation throws more sand into the FTC’s works. With...
The Army tests whether sustainable building materials have lasting value
2024-09-04, 18:57The Army will find out whether so-called sustainable building materials will hold up to the wear and tear of military construction. It’s using such materials to build new barracks for the first multi-domain task force at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington. Paul Farnan, the...
How to control your stomach during investment roller coasters
2024-09-04, 18:57Your Thrift Savings Plan investments, like the stock market itself, have shown volatility lately. It recovered from its early-August swoon, but who knows? Longtime TSP participant and multi-millionaire Abe Grungold joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with his advice for coping. Interview...
To maintain America’s tech leadership, NSF funding is vital
2024-09-04, 18:57We sit on the precipice of the next major technological revolution with the emergence of generative AI and quantum computing. The National Science Foundation is critical to maintaining America’s technological leadership; therefore, I join other business and technology leaders in urging Congress to...
Federal Executive Forum Chief Data Officers Profiles in Excellence in Government 2024: Data Analytics & ...
2024-09-04, 18:57Data and AI, and how to manage them, has been at the forefront of agency technology strategy. During this webinar, you will...
Data resilience and zero trust: Continuity of operations no matter what
2024-09-04, 16:51Ransomware attacks can happen to any organization, but what strategies are put in place at the federal level when...
DoD to add more providers, streamline contracting for JWCC
2024-09-04, 12:56As the Defense Department is gearing up for the next phase of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, DoD’s top IT officials are considering streamlining contracting processes and bringing on more cloud service providers. The Defense Department has already made over 65 task orders worth over $1...
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