FEMA

FEMA’s enterprise cloud services potentially could lower costs by 30%-to-40%

Jim Rodd, FEMA’s cloud portfolio manager, said his office developed a chargeback model for cloud service that received strong feedback from external experts.

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Five ways to improve FOIA estimated completion dates

Open Data/Transparency

AmeriCorps worker Conor Terry lugs sandbags to a storage area at the town's DPW facility as preparations are underway for the approaching storm, Thursday, March 1, 2018 in Provincetown, Mass. (Steve Heaslip/The Cape Cod Times via AP)

Meet the new CEO of AmeriCorps

Management

FILE- In this March 16, 2019 file photo, surveyors with the USGS take measurements of the Missouri River in Omaha, Neb., as the river overflows its banks. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri are joining forces for a study that will look for ways the states can limit flooding along the Missouri River and give them information about how wetter weather patterns could require changes to the federal government's management of the basin's reservoirs. The states are pooling their money to pay for half of a $400,000 study with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to measure how much water flows down the Missouri River. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Why the Army Corps of Engineers matches engineering with behavioral science

Army

Creating a safe space for IoT

Technology

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FEMA sets self-imposed deadline for moving more applications to the cloud

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FILE - The U.S. Capitol on a sunny morning, April 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Is the current nomination process hurting national security?

Congress

Agencies get new workforce priorities to focus on for next few years

Federal Newscast

FEMA, union agree to new policies to fix overtime discrepancies under $16.5M settlement

Workforce Rights/Governance

FEMA employees win $16.5M settlement for unpaid overtime

Workforce Rights/Governance

How FEMA coordinates to help before, during and after disasters

Federal Insights

FEMA’s CIO moving to private sector

Lytwaive Hutchinson, the chief information officer at FEMA, is moving to a new role in the private sector.

CIO News

In this Monday, July 18, 2016, An Indonesian health official prepares a vaccine injection during a revaccination program for children who were earlier given fake vaccines, at a community health center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Vials of counterfeit vaccines filled with saline solution and antibiotics have been discovered at 37 hospitals and clinics in nine cities, according to the Food and Drug Agency. So far, 23 people have been arrested, including three doctors. The number of affected children is still being investigated. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Another court rules in favor of Navy sailors who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

In today’s Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d…

Federal Newscast

Lessons learned from Hurricane Ida

Federal Insights

While the recovery from Hurricane Ida continues, Joe Valiente, Director of Emergency Management in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana said they are also focused on the future.