Agency Oversight

How one agency deals with digitizing its rich trove of cultural heritage records

The Tennessee Valley Authority has changed a big part of the American landscape; and has a large cache of what are known as cultural heritage documents.

Management

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Tykeera Murray

National Guard, southern borderSoldiers in the Army National Guard conduct a security search

Guard’s support of DHS adds no military value

Defense

Major DoD acquisition programs taking too long, GAO says

Federal Newscast

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FEHB, OPM, GAO costs, Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

Centralized FEHB database key to OPM cost savings, GAO says

Open Season

IRS to boost enforcement staffing, close tax loopholes used by complex partnerships

Agency Oversight

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Biden to nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero as FDIC chair after abrupt departure of predecessor

Management

Where Social Security could start, as it tries to improve itself

Agency Oversight

measurements, NIST, NIST artificial intelligence

Taking the measure of new NIST director

Management

Christophe Megevand, of Schuman Cheese, New Jersey, judges the Rhined Swiss Style Cheese category in the opening day of the World Championship Cheese Contest at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Whine, cheese make the return-to-office debate pungent

Federal Report

These inspectors general are on the job year ’round

Management

DeJoy: USPS setting higher prices part of changes needed to fix ‘broken business model’

Agency Oversight

There’s a new Hatch Act and whistleblower retaliation sheriff in town

There’s a new Hatch Act sheriff in town. Attorney Hampton Dellinger was recently confirmed as Special Counsel, leading the Office of Special Counsel.

Management

House appropriators pan DHS plans for ‘chief employee experience officer’

DHS budget document say the new “CEXO” would help the department consolidate its employee engagement goals, as well as recruit and retain top talent.

Workforce

Supreme Court case that could change 40 years of how government operates

Management

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to overturn a 40-year-old decision that is come to be known as the Chevron Deference.