Some agencies are capitalizing on interactions with trending people and topics to gain a widespread exposure on social media.

Leaving the military is hard enough without worrying about civilian employment. But there are initiatives to help Army vets get on their feet post-military.

Your summer job recess means you go to Rehoboth Beach or maybe to a villa in Gibraltar. But for members of Congress, being away from the grim domed Capitol building doesn’t mean they’re not working. In fact, they have workweeks averaging 59 hours. What are they doing? For some answers, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call.

DIUX, the Defense Department innovation unit in Silicon Valley, is expanding to Austin, Texas and other places. Does that mean Secretary Ash Carter is dissing the companies right here in the D.C. region? Venture capitalist Jonathan Aberman, chairman of Amplifier Ventures, gives his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Even after transitioning four systems to shared services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development still doesn’t have what it needs. All this is documented in the latest study from the Government Accountability Office. Valerie Melvin, director of Information Management and Technology Resources issues at GAO, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Most of the U.S. Mint’s commemorative coins are done in honor of wars or famous battles. But this time around, the agency is looking for designs for a coin to raise breast cancer awareness. April Stafford, head of the Mint’s Office of Design Management, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about this latest coin design competition.

Does your favorite TV weather person seem genuinely shocked that it’s hot in August? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says maybe he or she should become a government behavioral expert.

The Office of Personnel Management wants to make sure political appointees hired during the current administration don’t have an unfair advantage getting career jobs in the next administration.

In today’s Top Federal Headlines, the General Services Administration issues a notice which states employees and visitors at government buildings must be allowed to use whichever bathroom they need to.

The Office of Personnel Management says long-term care insurance members will see premiums rise by as much as 126 percent. Participants can start looking at their package options July 18.

According to the latest count from the Office of Personnel Management, less than 100 federal employees have applied to their agencies’ phased retirement program. It’s been roughly two years since OPM released final regulations on phased retirement and gave agencies the green light to begin accepting applications.

When computer scientist Jeffrey Voas set out to determine the security implications of the Internet of Things for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, he discovered that first he would need to provide a scientific definition.