In search of leadership at the National Personnel Records Center Rep. Warren Davidson (Staff Sgt. Joshua Weaver/Air Force graphic) Last March, like many other government office buildings, the National Personnel Records Center closed in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus. Considering that everything from Social Security Offices, to National Parks, to Motor Vehicle Centers closed down, the NPRC closure went largely unnoticed. Fifteen days to slow the spread came and went, but the center which houses all the military records for America’s service members remains barely operational. Unlike many other government agencies, the NPRC’s primary mission cannot be carried out remotely. Four stories and some six million square feet in St. Louis house millions of hard-copy records that make up complete service histories for America’s veterans. Veterans need these records to access the benefits they earned while protecting our freedom. Without them, veterans cann
Fox News contributor Sara Carter speaks to anonymous federal official about the migrant crisis
The Department of Agriculture is sending as many as 500 volunteers to the U.S.-Mexico border to help process the thousands of migrants trying to come to the U.S., reports show.
An email from Terry Cosby, acting chief of the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, obtained by The Spectator details volunteer opportunities the agency is offering to its more than 100,000 employees to work directly with unaccompanied minors at the border and help pair them with American sponsors. These are children in need and government employees now have an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of these children, families and communities impacted by this migration, Cosby wrote in the April 22 email, according to the Spectator. I urge you to seriously consider answering this call to service to make a difference.
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The federal watchdog warned that eight of the most important mission-critical modernization efforts could fail without sufficient, documented plans.
Among federal agencies operating the 10 most critical aged IT systems in government, only two have fully developed plans to modernize.
Nearly two years after the Government Accountability Office identified 10 legacy federal systems most critical to the respective agency’s mission and most in need of updating, eight of those agencies have yet to produce workable modernization plans.
The 10 systems range from 8 to 51 years old “and, collectively, cost about $337 million annually to operate and maintain,” according to a GAO report released this week. Beyond cost, the aging systems are “operating with known security vulnerabilities and unsupported hardware and