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When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analysis and insight on the many cr...

New essay questions on many federal job applications asking candidates how they would advance the Trump administration’s policies, are optio...

The Department of the Navy is one the biggest users of the Defense Department’s Gen AI.mil platform. The Navy designated the generative arti...

Coming up today on The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton A court ruling protected the Institute for Museum and Library Services, but the fight...

A federal court has blocked administrative efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services. But the administration’s lates...

Markets have been noisy for months. But when you look past daily swings, many TSP funds are firmly in positive territory, highlighting the g...

Sustained stress is a reality for many veterans, first responders and federal employees. New data from the Veteran Tickets Foundation looks...

GAO has flagged fraud risks in federally funded, state‑administered programs for years, from weak data sharing to inconsistent controls. Man...

GAO has flagged fraud risks in federally funded, state‑administered programs for years, from weak data sharing to inconsistent controls. Man...

A new report is shedding light on how Department of Government Efficiency staffers gained access to sensitive Treasury Department payment sy...

The Army’s newest AI project ARIA, or the Rapid Implementation of Artificial Intelligence initiative, is organized around three lines of eff...

Coming up today on The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton Extreme weather is forcing federal agencies to rethink who bears the risk when long‑t...

As natural disasters grow more frequent and intense, new EPA Inspector General findings suggest some federal facility Superfund cleanups may...

A recent review of IRS contract cancellations found hundreds of millions of dollars in potential savings, but far less clarity about how tho...

Families of incarcerated people depend on timely, accurate information to make decisions about safety, health and contact, but when that inf...

Top Treasury officials are telling Congress that the IRS pulled off a remarkable feat, carrying out a busier-than-usual filing season with a...

From bartender to elevator mechanic and meat cutter to wood worker, more than 100 federal job titles are about to be swept into broader work...

Coming up today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton Some of the federal government’s most trusted public data tools aren’t being maintain...

An analysis from USAFacts finds that many of the government’s most important public datasets are no longer being updated or maintained as ex...

Economic indicators are meant to bring clarity to decision‑making across government and the economy. But the systems that produce those numb...

The Army recently launched a new initiative aimed at rapidly delivering artificial intelligence tools to soldiers. Dubbed Project ARIA, shor...

A new acquisition structure has been taking shape within the Army. It shifts the focus away from managing individual programs and toward ove...

Coming up today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton Unpaid bills at DHS are testing how long critical homeland security missions can hold...

As unpaid DHS contractor invoices stretch back nearly nine months, companies supporting critical homeland security missions say workforce st...

Modernizing preparedness law requires more than updating language or refreshing authorities. It means confronting where coordination, capaci...

Drawing on experiences from governments across the globe, a new trends report focuses less on prediction and more on how public institutions...

The Agriculture Department is expanding its reorganization plans; moving hundreds of additional employees from its component agencies out of...

President Trump’s pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is withdrawing from consideration. Sean Plankey was firs...

Coming up on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton When Congress focuses on one big fight, something else usually stalls A court decision has...

The budget resolution and reconciliation process are absorbing much of Congress’s attention, staff time and political oxygen. That focus is...

A recent court ruling requiring continued funding of CFPB gives the organization room to keep carrying out its mission despite ongoing press...

As the United States prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics, attention is turning to how federal agencies plan for passenger experi...

Defense Department employees have become the latest to lose their protections provided under collective bargaining agreements as the Trump a...

A pay raise for federal employees in 2027 is looking even further out of reach. The House Appropriations Committee has advanced spending leg...

USPS leaders have warned Congress about financial strain, rising costs and the possibility of service reductions, concerns that show up firs...

OPM’s request for more granular FEHB health data and the Postal Service’s suspension of employer pension contributions raise separate issues...

Coming up today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

The Transportation Security Administration has quietly been advancing big changes to the private contractor security screening program. TSA...

Nearly seven months into the fiscal year, the Small Business Administration is considering moving the small business contracting goal posts...

Coming up today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton A new strategic plan signals how the Office of Special Counsel sees its responsibilit...

The Office of Special Counsel occupies a complicated place in the federal system; part protector, part enforcer and increasingly, a test of...

Three former FBI agents fired last fall are now bringing a class‑action lawsuit, arguing their removals crossed a line with consequences bey...

Congressional scrutiny of the Department of Defense’s clearance backlogs comes as the Pentagon again asks civilian employees to volunteer fo...

After major staffing reductions under the Trump administration, the federal workforce is at a 15-year low. But now, some agencies are revers...

The federal government’s landlord and its human resources office are embarking on plans to share the same headquarters. The Office of Person...

Advanced computing and AI are reshaping nearly every sector, but access to those capabilities remains uneven. The National Science Foundatio...

Coming up today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton The real challenge with AI and advanced computing is closing the gap between where th...

The federal government’s national strategy for quantum computing lays out broad goals, but a new GAO review finds gaps in coordination, acco...

The National Nuclear Security Administration has finalized a site‑wide environmental impact statement for Los Alamos, shaping the lab’s path...

For perhaps the first time since the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act became law in 1994, the Office of Management and Budget is holding...

The challenge of delivering capabilities to warfighters at a faster rate is hardly a new problem for the Defense Department. But with the ri...