“The White House Office of Management and Budget on Saturday asked federal employees to avoid all work travel unless it is mission critical, due to concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus. This is in addition to international travel restrictions already in place.”
“Agency heads will decide what qualifies as “mission critical,” said the memo from acting OMB Director Russell Vought. Criteria as to whether a trip meets the threshold include if it is necessary to protect life and property, it is to inspect equipment that is critical to safety or the continuance or an agency’s operations, or it is essential for national security reasons…”
“The Defense Department on Friday said military personnel must not travel beyond the “local area” of their assigned base from March 16-May 11, unless the trip is “mission-essential, for humanitarian reasons, or warranted due to extreme hardship…” Read the full article here.
Source: White House Asks Agencies to Stop All Travel That Is Not Mission Critical – By Amelia Gruber, March 16, 2020. Nextgov.
