Older Feds Aren't Playing to Their Strengths
Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Feds?
Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
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Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
The Agency That Has Never Had a Confirmed Director
December 19, 2012 Sometimes inside government issues -- say, for example, the confirmation process -- actually turn out to be relevant to real-world crises. Actually, lots of times. Here's President Obama today, in his press briefing on gun control and the fiscal cliff: Considering Congress hasn’t confirmed a director of the Bureau of ...
'Whatever Power This Office Holds'
December 17, 2012 President Obama last night at a memorial service in Newtown, Ct.: If there’s even one step we can take to save another child or another parent or another town from the grief that’s visited Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek and Newtown and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that, ...
The Fiscal Cliff and Federal Agencies, Explained
December 11, 2012 Tuesday morning, on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Government Executive senior correspondent Charlie Clark took up the subject of the fiscal cliff and the looming federal budget sequester, discussing the potential impact on federal operations. The potential budget cuts could bring widespread furloughs and cuts in key government services. Watch the full ...
Administration seeks $60 billion in Hurricane Sandy relief funding
December 7, 2012 The Obama administration formally requested $60.4 billion Friday in funding for Hurricane Sandy relief and to mitigate the effects of similar disasters in the future. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Jeffrey Zients, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the funds were needed ...
Air Force Bans Racy Photos in Workplace
December 6, 2012 Air Force leaders have decided that it's about time to make sexy pinup photos a thing of the past. Air Force Times reports that Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has ordered a search of all workplaces and public spaces to root out items such as calendars, posters, and briefing ...
Furloughs, hiring freeze on the table as Defense begins sequester planning
December 5, 2012 The Defense Department has begun planning to implement a fiscal 2013 budget sequester in January, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday. “We are consulting with the Office of Management and Budget and have been instructed to pursue internal planning on sequestration,” the spokesman, George Little, said at a press availability today, according ...
Hackers already are in your network. Now what?
December 4, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
To Shawn Henry, there are only two types of organizations in the world: Those that know that their networks already have been breached, and those that don’t. “It is nearly impossible to keep the most sophisticated adversaries out of networks,” said Henry, president of Crowdstrike Services and a former executive ...
What the 'new social operating system' means for government
December 3, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Over the past 12 years, the influence of the Internet has grown to the extent that Americans now “live in networks,” according to an expert on how digital trends are affecting American society -- and that development has serious implications for the way federal agencies interact with the citizens they ...
Second Chances
December 1, 2012 On Election Day, after waiting in line for about an hour to vote in my Virginia precinct, I went on Facebook to announce my excitement: “I’m officially a swing-state voter!” I wrote. Within minutes, several friends and family members had read and clicked the “Like” link to indicate their approval. ...
Cliff-pocalypse-mageddon-ocaust
November 30, 2012 Forget plain old "fiscal cliff," or "slope," "hill," "canyon," "bomb," or any of the other terms that have been concocted to characterize the looming economic crisis. We need a whole new word to describe what's about to unfold: The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire ...
