USAID

Direct Relief, Tesla battery pack, Ukraine

How to do foreign aid without stepping on federal toes

A large non-profit has been obtaining Tesla battery packs and getting them into Ukraine for when Russia knocks out the electricity.

Management

3 takeaways from the FITARA 17 scorecard roundtable

Reporter's Notebook

Graphic By: Derace Lauderdale

The government’s top role for workforce diversity will soon be vacant. What happens next?

Workforce

USAID embarks on a more data-driven approach to mission delivery

Management

(AP Photo/J. David Ake)

FILE - In this April 1, 2014, file photo, the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development is seen in Washington. The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks using an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft said, late Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

USAID tightens up its approach to working with overseas religious groups

Workforce

HHS, Health and Human Services, building, exterior

Like it or not, your ugly federal office building beckons

Federal Report

A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Brigde on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said he’s weighing whether to shut down the border with Colombia, where the bulk of aid meant for Venezuela is being stockpiled and exiled leaders have been gathering ahead of a fundraising concert Friday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

USAID moves to keep more dollars flowing to the countries it’s actually helping.

Contracting

USAID the latest agency to move toward less telework

Federal Newscast

USDA, EPA increasing in-office requirements for agency managers and supervisors

Workforce

Federal contracting industry provides support for Ukraine

Federal Newscast

The US Agency for International Development revives an important committee

Agency Oversight

Exclusive

Cyber, data center, EIS changes highlight FITARA 15

The latest Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard showed seven agencies improved their grades since last period and 17 stayed the same with USAID…

Congress

State Dept supporting ‘data for diplomacy’ through contracting modernization

The State Department is looking at data analytics to more effectively buy the IT systems and services it needs to modernize.

Contracting

Education CIO Gray leaving to lead USAID CIO shop

CIO News

Long-time Education Department CIO Jason Gray is moving on from his role this month to take the same position at the U.S. Agency for International Development.