Workforce
The immigration agency is seeking $1.2 billion to keep employees working through an anticipated financial shortfall it links to the pandemic.
07/29/2020
Acquisition
Temporary acquisition authorities that aid the Department of Homeland Security in getting innovative commercial technologies and goods in response to the COVID-19 crisis should be lasting tools in the department's acquisition toolbox, the agency's top acquisition official told a Senate panel.
07/29/2020
Workforce
As part of a plan to revitalize federal employment, the Senior Executives Association is looking to take the government's top human resources official out of the political fray with a 5- to 8-year appointment.
07/28/2020
Acquisition
Customs and Border Protection won a $15M award to update a COBOL-based fee collection system and move it to the cloud.
07/28/2020
Workforce
The proposed elimination of the Office of Personnel Management as an independent agency appears to be on hold indefinitely, but executive orders and agency relocations have altered the federal workforce landscape.
07/27/2020
Workforce
A top appropriator vows to address potential future furloughs in next COVID-related legislative package.
07/24/2020
IT Modernization
The lawmakers want the next COVID-19 relief package to include a boost for the central Technology Modernization Fund to support the upgrade of legacy systems.
07/24/2020
Congress
The Senate passed its version of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and the bill now heads to conference.
07/24/2020
Cybersecurity
The notification of companies whose data had been exposed by the Small Business Administration's effort to set up advanced electronic emergency loan portals was slowed by a contracting issue, the agency's deputy CIO told Congress.
07/23/2020
Workforce
The Inspector General of the Office of Personnel Management says the agency is not cooperating with a look at potential civil service law violations.
07/23/2020
Congress
The measure looks to require more frequent updates of the directory of political appointees.
07/22/2020
Workforce
Title 38 employees, such as workers at the Transportation Security Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Federal Aviation Administration were not included in the bill that established the benefit.
07/22/2020
Workforce
The immigration agency is now set to end FY2020 with surplus, and two Senate appropriators are asking for a pause on furloughs while Congress negotiates supplemental funding to offset 2021 shortfalls.
07/21/2020
Congress
The House of Representatives passed a defense bill for 2021 that authorizes $731.6 billion in defense spending, includes cyber, workforce, acquisition provisions and a ban on the popular social media app Tik Tok on government equipment.
07/21/2020
Election Security
Gen. Nakasone's remarks come as a group of former senior officials seek funds to counter the "extraordinary challenges" posed by coronavirus pandemic and foreign interference to state and local election administrators.
07/20/2020