Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
Its critical that we allow telework to minimize the number of people in federal buildings. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. Thank you. At this time i want to proceed with testimony from our witnesses. Let me do a quick introduction of the four of them. Joining us remotely is Michelle Rosenberg and the Strategic Issues team where she is on capital issues and she served for over 20 years on gaos tenured team. Shes been recognized with Health Care Team awards including two Meritorious Service awards and shell be testifying first and joining us remotely. Mr. Keith waington is with the u. S. Department of troilgz. Has been with the Department Since 1991 and in hiscurrent position he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of Human Resources, security, audit relations, acquitions and gras and transportation and facilities and space management. Maybe you can lead nasa for us next since we need a new director for nasa since yo
For today. For getting outside but the winds will be kicking up and thats something youll notice, especially this afternoon. As we go into the rest of the forecast, we are going to see some very cold mornings. In fact, frosty valleys heading into the weekend but still no rain in the forecast for next week. And if you are planning to have thanksgiving dinner outside, lets head over towards the east bay as we check out danville. Now, our high temperatures today will reach up to about 62 degrees and if you want to have dinner during the warmest time of the day, plan dinner around 2 00 or 3 00. Have it early. Well talk more about our microclimates, as well as what is ahead. If you are going to work, were looking at a smooth overall commute across the bay area and taking a look at the maps. We do have gusty winds in some spots as you cross some of those east to west bridges. Just make sure youre careful because those winds have been picking up. We have seen a couple of incidents on some of
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Modernizing the teleworking moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid19 pandemic. We should have some good come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, what gaps are still there, and what better we can do for this process. Its been a decade since the last telework legislation. The telework enhancement act of it set the baseline standards 2010. For them to follow with telework and over the last 10 years, weve seen great advances in technology and workforce expectations and the increase in cybersecurity threats. So many changes in the world, it makes sense to take a close look at the telework policies and strategies than the federal workforce. Current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass for telework policy improvement. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with ho