Public service recognition week (PSRW) has been celebrated the first week of May since 1985 Honoring federal, state, country, local, and tribal government employees, the first full week of May is Public Service Recognition Week. Leaders across all governments are ... Read More

News from around the federal government, including some from the US Postal Service Namandjé Bumpus becomes second in command at the FDA FAA dealing with critical shortage of air traffic controllers (ATCs) In this week’s wrap-up of news highlights from ... Read More

Recent news from around the federal government: USDA invests in western forests, FDA said to be dragging feet on methanol cigarettes, and more federal workforce telework drama from DC. Here’s another roundup of the week’s news pertaining to the US ... Read More

Bill introduced in Congress looks to change cannabis policies while White House memo signals an upcoming increase of on-site work. Also, man pleads guilty to defrauding the VA.  Here’s roundup of some recent news related to federal government and its ... Read More

On the business side of things, this was welcomed news by the manufacturer. After the inspection results were made public, the corporation’s stock grew over 6% on April 3rd. Piramal Pharma has a 5-year loss of almost 75%* but the ... Read More

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure’s confirmation to lead CMS would have officially filled up Senate-confirmed federal posts at HHS- except the FDA’s top position doesn’t even have a nominee yet. FERS Benefits Webinar At the end of May, by a vote of 55-44, ... Read More

STWS takes a look at prominent jobs of the Federal Government. This week: Scientists at the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) No-Cost Webinars for Federal Employees Being an FDA scientist can be broken down into three broad categories: The Researcher ... Read More

B117, a COVID-19 variant, is not being detected by all tests, FDA reports, but the impact is “not significant.” Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 or SARS-COV-2 was renamed to COVID-19 at the onset of the outbreak. This was done because ... Read More

HHS (Health & Human Services) just issued guidance about utilizing a law from 2016 that lets the agency hire up to 2,000 scientists above the federal salary cap for Federal Biomedical Research The Senior Biomedical Service was started in 1996 ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration Approves first COVID-19 test that has “in-home” Option For those who have symptoms of the Cornoavirus, have come into contact with someone who has a confirmed diagnosis, or are at-risk- a new home test is ... Read More