Federal Newscast

(6/10/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: New House legislation would prohibit DHS from buying batteries made by six Chinese companies. The Energy Department gives agencies another tool to get federal buildings to reach net zero emissions by 2045. And the number of cybersecurity incidents at federal agencies in 2023 grew by almost 10%.

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(6/7/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is looking for a new technology leader. Senate Democrats are heightening their push to create better access to in-vitro fertilization treatments and medications. And the U.S. Army is looking to develop and bring nuclear energy to its installations.

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(6/6/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: The Space Force is accepting applications from Air Force Reservists. Quan Boatman is the new director of the Interior Business Center. And an employee advocacy group is calling for better federal health care coverage of infertility treatments.

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(6/5/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: House Republicans are advancing a $64 billion homeland security spending bill. House defense appropriators, take a hatchet to DEI, abortion, and climate change. And House support for the Technology Modernization Fund takes a nosedive.

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(6/4/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: Congressional Republicans are looking at more cuts to State Department funding. OPM has officially made it easier for agencies to hire military spouses. And Congress seems to want a military Drone Corps that Army leaders seem to oppose.

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(6/3/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission names a permanent chief information officer. The intelligence community has updated its technology plans. And a 62-year-old retired four-star admiral faces three decades behind bars...on bribery charges.

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(5/31/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: The U.S. Army is re-imagining how it creates-and-maintains the technology that runs its command-and-control networks. The American Federation of Government Employees is still worried about the future of telework at the EPA. And the Golden State is the top dog for postal workers, in the dog-bite category.

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(5/30/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: The Small Business Administration is coming under fire for its use of money collected in its IT working capital fund. Veterans will pay less for VA-covered mental health care over the next few years. And the claims checks from that 2015 OPM data breach are still trickling in.

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(5/29/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: One of the Defense Department’s top IT acquisition executives is departing federal service next month. A new request for proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is raising alarm bells among services contractors. And the National Archives and Records Administration is preparing agencies for a looming digitization deadline.

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(5/28/24) - In today's Federal Newscast: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is back on the job after briefly relinquishing his duties over the weekend. Innovation in federal acquisition gets the spotlight in a new report from OMB. And Congress turns up the heat on what some members are calling the VA's "bonus blunders."

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