The Pentagon has cancelled its replacement for the Defense Travel System (DTS) after five years of development and tens of millions of dollars in spending. The system, MyTravel, will end in September, and employees will revert back to using DTS for the foreseeable future.
The Bureau of Prisons must do simple things to makes itself a better place to work: Get to full staffing. Hire the right people. Update crumbling facilities. Sharpen the anti-recidivism problems. Easy to visualize, difficult to do. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin digs into the longstanding challenges that earned BOP the lowest score in the Partnership for Public Service's Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings.
I spoke with Vishnu Reddy, professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona, about the possibility of classifying space assets as critical infrastructure.
Few people can boast 50 years of federal service. But Federal Drive host Tom Temin’s guest started as a page in Congress in 1972 and he never left. He is no longer a page, of course. Now he is the building services coordinator for the House office buildings, an employee of the Architect of the Capitol.
Arlene Joyner, the deputy assistant secretary and director of the Office of Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said data initiatives are helping understand where supply chain shortages are happening.
A bipartisan resolution aims to bring more evidence-based policy making to Congress. It would establish a commission to, in the words of the sponsors, “facilitate the integration of robust data in the legislative process.”
The Pentagon says the priorities for DEOS are to develop, deliver and maintain the classified DOD O365 platform, and continue ongoing sustainment of the unclassified joint environment.
OPM is trying to give CHCOs more opportunities to offer feedback on planned policy changes, as long-standing federal recruitment challenges endure.
