Steve Kelman revisits the work Chris Kuang is doing to bring recent grads into government tech roles.
10/26/2021
Acquisition
The multiple-award contract dubbed "Evolve" is the successor to the Vanguard contract held by Science Applications International Corp. since 2010.
10/25/2021
Workforce
A new Government Accountability Office report says that not compiling the lessons learned from special hiring authorities could "risk significantly hindering the government's ability to recruit, hire, retain and manage its current COVID-19 pandemic workforce as well as for future pandemics or emergencies."
10/25/2021
Oversight
A committee established to ensure transparency around government spending related to COVID-19 found that federal agencies failed to provide clear reporting on how they were spending billions of dollars.
10/25/2021
Workforce
Agency watchdogs told lawmakers that they would like authority to subpoena former federal employees, contractors and other non-governmental witnesses to give testimony in IG probes.
10/22/2021
Workforce
Code for America recognized a new employee union, a first in the civic tech sector.
10/22/2021
Congress
The National Personnel Records Center is facing a backlog of 550,000 requests that built up over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
10/21/2021
IT Modernization
House appropriators are concerned that the Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking to fully fund its program to switch from its homegrown Vista system to Cerner's commercial electronic health record in 2022, despite having unspent funds from fiscal year 2021.
10/21/2021
Defense
Mieke Eoyang, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy said one of DOD's main cyber workforce challenges is being able to set expectations around policymakers' calls to step in and defend against cyberattacks.
10/21/2021
Congress
The agency has been without a general counsel for years, leaving it unable to resolve charges of unfair labor practices, but the Senate is poised to confirm new leadership.
10/20/2021
IT Modernization
The Internal Revenue Service's plan to modernize its key source for individual tax data has seen multiple cost and schedule changes since it started in 2009.
10/20/2021
Workforce
The Office of Personnel Management is directed agencies to more regularly give new and longtime feds more information about their union eligibility and guidance about how to join.
10/20/2021
Congress
It's a familiar story: The House looks to add to the Technology Modernization Fund while the Senate taps the brakes
10/19/2021
Cybersecurity
Two separate Senate bills set different deadlines for federal contractors, critical infrastructure providers and other covered companies to report cyber incidents to the federal government.
10/19/2021
Acquisition
An incumbent on a key Homeland Security data center contract says it should have been the one to manage the migration to a hybrid environment.
10/18/2021