Senior officials supported fines for companies that don't comply with proposed cyber reporting regulations.

Whistleblower protections for federal employees are some of the worst in the U.S. labor market, advocates say, and they see recent bipartisan legislation as "the promised land" after years of pushing...

The Biden administration is calling on agencies to identify bottlenecks that make their public-facing services inaccessible to certain demographics.

For the highlights, the museum's Chief of Exhibits Paul Morando, and Sgt. James Akinola, visiting soldier and the Army's soldier of the year, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Postal Service says it’s getting operations on the right track after years of pandemic-related challenges. But the American Postal Workers Union says the agency remains too short-staffed to meet...

Dear scientists of the federal government, in these times of uncertainty and instability, I want to thank you for your commitment to providing the American people with facts backed by sound science.

In an email to Social Security Administration employees Friday afternoon, Kilolo Kijakazi, a Biden appointee, said the president had made a decision to change agency leadership, naming her as the...

Causey was a figure in the federal workforce and D.C. journalism worlds for more than 50 years.

Over the last two-plus years, the CIA has launched an Instagram page, a page on the dark web, created an office of Hispanic engagement and recently updated its website.

In today's Federal Newscast, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) wants to make sure President Trump doesn't dispose of any vital presidential records on his way out...

A federal district court judge issued a long-awaited decision on the legality of President Donald Trump's executive orders on official time, collective bargaining and employee accountability.

The bureau spent years on several blockchain pilots, but is now partnering with the National Science Foundation to help reduce the reporting burden for grant recipients, while improving transparency...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Dec. 23 to make the average 4.6% federal pay raise official for civilian employees. But the exact raise you get depends on where you work.

For more than a year, the National Security Agency has been sharing cybersecurity threat information with defense industrial base companies. The idea is to correlate NSA signal intelligence with...

With little time to spare before the deadline, President Donald Trump signed two shutdown-averting spending bills into law and a 3.1% federal pay raise. He also signed the annual defense authorizat...

Former OMB Director Russ Vought and current president of the Center for Renewing America, sent a letter to OMB detailing why he believes the current approach to implementing the March 2021 executive...

The Biden administration will recommend a 2.7% federal pay raise for civilian federal employees in 2022. The president's budget request also outlines a few steps agencies will take to recruit more...

The National Association of Letter Carriers honored six letter carriers for acts of heroism that helped save lives in their communities.

A scathing review by VA's inspector general found the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection failed to meet the missions Congress gave it, and may have actually put whistleblowers in...

With the Christmas holiday falling on a Wednesday, President Trump decided to close the government and give employees an extra day off.

The bill, known as the "Strengthen the Office of Personnel Management Act," would redefine the agency's mission and responsibilities, codify the role of the director and the career chief management...

The NSA's top official says the highly secretive agency is looking at how much work it can do outside of a SCIF.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says no member of the National Guard will be allowed to participate in drills or other training required to maintain their status in the Guard unless they are vaccina...

A Federal News Network survey of nearly 1,200 teleworkers found most are working more or the same number of hours at home compared to the office. Many of the technology issues from the early days...

In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers say they're ready to work with the four major federal payroll providers so they can implement an option.

Federal employees who need to certify their vaccination status under a new policy instituted by President Joe Biden intended to encourage COVID-19 shots will false disciplinary action and potentially...

The Biden administration is expected to propose a 2.7% federal pay raise for civilian employees in 2022, well above the 1% bump workers received this year.

As many other agencies announce decreases to telework, the Government Publishing Office is taking a different approach to the future of work.

The president's recent Schedule F executive order allows agencies to reclassify career federal employees in certain policymaking positions into a new schedule of quasi political appointees.

More than 90% of GSA's contractors have signed agreements incorporating the mandate into their contracts, including 95% of vendors on GSA's Federal Supply Schedule.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order implementing an average 2.7% federal pay raise for most civilian employees in 2022, the final step needed to make the salary increases official.

In an email to the workforce, acting Office of Personnel Management Director Michael Rigas told staff the administration would no longer devote "time and energy" to the proposed merger with the...

NASCIO celebrated 50th anniversary in Nashville with record attendance, revealed annual CIO survey results and elected a new president from North Carolina.

New OMB guidance tells agencies how to implement the new Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, which requires most reports to Congress to be made public via a free web portal.

In today's Federal Newscast, the American Federation of Government Employees is making a renewed push in court to score hazard pay for federal employees working on the frontlines of the pandemic.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's motion to immediately lift the injunction on the president's workforce executive orders.

Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers have expressed an interest in leaving their union, after most of them saw pay cuts under a new pay system.

Since the death of our friend and colleague Mike Causey, we at Federal News Network have been overwhelmed — in the most positive sense of the word! — by an outpouring of love, support and memories...

President Joe Biden has formally announced his plans to give civilian federal employees a pay raise next year, starting on Jan. 1, 2023.

The executive action raises the profile of senior career officials at scientific agencies, seeks to increase transparency around agency research and regulations and makes federal data sets more...

President Donald Trump formalized a 1% across-the-board federal pay raise for civilian employees in 2021 via an executive order, which he signed Thursday night with hours to spare before the start of...

A new "Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative" launched by the agency includes major cloud providers, telecommunications giants, and cyber threat hunting companies.

A bipartisan group of House members say civilian employees should earn a 3% federal pay raise next year, a figure that matches what military members are on track to receive in 2021.

The CISA guidance helps fill a void where agencies have lacked common security standards and configurations for widely used services, like email and productivity capabilities.

The executive action raises the profile of senior career officials at scientific agencies, seeks to increase transparency around agency research and regulations and makes federal data sets more...

The president has signed a temporary stopgap funding measure into law, which keeps agencies running through Dec. 11 and avoids a government shutdown.

Federal offices in D.C. closed as winter storm approaches, emergency employees and teleworkers still expected to work

The Postal Service’s regulatory agency is in the final stretch of drafting an advisory opinion that, if favorable, would give USPS approval to slow first-class mail delivery standards.

Federal employees working from home largely report being more productive than when they go into the office, and while large-scale oversight efforts from the Government Accountability Office have only...

In today's Federal Newscast, a bill from the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s top Republican looks to punish anyone found responsible for an illness called Havana Syndrome.

The NSA helped create a resource for non-cyber workforces to educate themselves and others about real-world cybersecurity issues and implications.

There is much to be done to restore trust in our government and the people who make it work. Commentator Jeff Neal says we can start by filling the gaping holes in some agencies, so our agencies are...

The Postal Service and the General Services Administration are making seven post offices in the Washington, D.C. metro area permanent locations for federal employees and contractors to obtain or...

New Republican chairman of the USPS Board of Governors Roman Martinez IV pointed to the Biden administration’s upcoming plans to mail millions of COVID-19 testing kits to households as a sign that...

Under a Biden administration, President Donald Trump's 2018 workforce executive orders would go, the National Treasury Employees Union said Monday.

The National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with its union to extend telework eligibility to all permanent agency employees.