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Feds can apply for disaster relief through FEEA
Federal employees who experience major loss during Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy can apply for a grant from the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund. FEEA also offers no-interest emergency loans of up to $1,000. Loans are repaid through the employees' payroll.
Tags: FEEA , workforce , grants , pay and benefits
Agencies fan out en masse to help recovery efforts
FEMA pre-positioned people and equipment along the East Coast before Hurricane Sandy arrived. The FCC, which is monitoring communications networks, said about 25 percent of all cell sites were down.
Tags: management , FEMA , FCC , Craig Fugate , David Turetsky , telecommunications , disaster relief , Jason Miller
NWS ramps up to track Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy
Steve Cooper, acting deputy director of NOAA's National Weather Service, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp, his agency added staffing to follow progress of the major East Coast storm.
Tags: Steven Cooper , NWS , NOAA , Federal Drive , Michael OConnell
Federal websites resilient against storm...so far
GSA said the storm has not had an effect on the USA.gov and GobineroUSA websites, which are providing federal information related to Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy.
Tags: technology , GSA , cloud computing , CGI , Jason Miller , FEMA , USA.gov , GobiernoUSA.gov
Derecho helped HHS prepare for Sandy's wrath
Frank Baitman, the CIO at the Department of Health and Human Services, said his agency applied lessons from this summer's Derecho as it prepared for the storm hitting the region this week. He said HHS tested and fixed server fail-over problems.
Tags: management , technology , Frank Baitman , HHS , data center , continuity of operations , telework , Jason Miller
USPS aims to deliver mail in DC after Hurricane Sandy
Postal Service employees will attempt to deliver mail the day after superstorm Sandy hit the D.C. region.
Tags: workforce , USPS , closures
FEMA says funding won't be an issue in storm relief efforts
The pot of money funding FEMA's relief efforts contains $3.6 billion, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate. That includes some funds carried over from last fiscal year as well as new funding from the stopgap spending measure approved by Congress last month.
Tags: FEMA , Craig Fugate , social media , disaster relief , Jack Moore
Hurricane Sandy forces cancellation of ELC conference
The Executive Leadership Conference scheduled to take place this week in Williamsburg, Va. has been canceled because of Hurricane Sandy.
Tags: management , OPM , ACT-IAC , ELC , Jason Miller
Federal government offices closed Tuesday after 'storm of a lifetime'
D.C.-area federal government offices are closed for the second consecutive day due to superstorm Sandy. In an exclusive interview with Federal News Radio before the storm hit, OPM Director John Berry called Sandy a "significant life-threatening event." He urged feds to stay inside and stay "hunkered down." There is no word yet on the federal government's operating status on Wednesday.
Tags: OPM , workforce , operating status
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