GAO Finds Strategic Review Process Helpful to Agencies
The strategic review process ordered by the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 and subsequent OMB guidance has helped agencies make …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersOPM, GSA Extend Hurricane Response Actions
OPM has granted agencies authority to make temporary excepted service appointments of up to one year, with allowable extensions of …More
Senate Panel to Examine Agency Reorganizations
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has set a hearing for tomorrow (Wednesday) on applying the lessons learned …More
Emergency Hiring Flexibilities Announced for Hurricanes Irma, Harvey
OPM has authorized federal agencies to make excepted appointments on a temporary basis for up to one year in support …More
Record-keeping on Telework at VA Faulted
The Veterans Benefits Administration “does not yet have key controls in place to ensure that employees’ telework hours are recorded …More
House Panel to Continue Scrutiny of LWOP for Political Reasons
The chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is continuing to press the issue of federal employees taking …More
Report Lays Out IT Modernization Challenges
Federal agencies’ efforts to modernize their IT systems “have been stymied as a result of a variety of factors, including …More
Some IG Recommendations for EPA Left Hanging for Years
The IG’s office at the EPA has said that some recommendations it has made to management have been pending resolution …More
Group Maps Steps to Improving Program Management
The Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act signed into law late last year “provides an excellent foundation on which to …More
GSA Awards SmartPay 3 Contracts
The GSA has awarded contracts for its next generation of government charge card and payment solutions, SmartPay 3, to Citibank …More
OPM Stresses Employee Engagement in Ratings Process
In carrying out the Trump administration’s directive to “maximize employee performance,” OPM has said, agencies are to make the performance …More
IG Calls for Better Coordination between VA, SSA on Records
While the VA shares death record information on veterans with the SSA monthly, that agency continues to pay benefits to …More
Intelligence Community Weighing Human vs. Computer Analytics
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has announced a multi-year research effort designed to improve geopolitical forecasting “by …More
DoD Sets Policies on Cyber Excepted Service
DoD has issued guidance to stand up its “cyber excepted service” which will serve as the civilian excepted service personnel …More
1.9 Percent January Raise for Federal Employees Reaffirmed
President Trump has reaffirmed his intent for federal employees to receive an average 1.9 percent pay raise in January, sending …More
State Department Launches Diversity Initiative
In one of the first federal workforce diversity-related initiatives launched by the Trump administration, the State Department has said it …More
Agencies Told to Report on Disabled Veteran Hiring
OPM has told agencies to report by December 1 on their compliance with the Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program, with …More
OMB Issues Data Call, Guidance on Regulatory Agendas
OMB has told agencies to submit by September 18 their Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory …More
Report Provides Lessons on Measuring Customer Satisfaction
The Postal Service could improve its efforts to measure customer, an IG report has said in making recommendations that could …More
Case Seen as Precedent for Transfers of SES Members
A whistleblower retaliation complaint pending before the Office of Special Counsel could set a precedent for determining the powers of …More
EPA Leave Bank Vulnerable to Misuse, Says Audit
Lack of adequate controls left the EPA’s leave bank “vulnerable to fraud, waste and misuse,” an IG audit has found. …More
At SSA, Less Space but Same Number of Visitors
The SSA has been reducing its physical footprint as it migrates more services from in-person to online delivery but the …More
Ethics Question? USDA Has an App for That
The Agriculture Department has produced an Ethics App that it calls the first of its kind in the federal government, …More
Hill Leaders Investigating Leave Policies for Political Activities
The chairmen of the House and Senate committees overseeing the federal workforce have asked a dozen large agencies to explain …More
DHS Performance Management System Wasteful, Says IG
DHS’s experience in standing up its performance and learning management system, or PALMS, ‘literally meets GAO’s textbook definition of waste,” …More
CBO Finds Management-Related Bills Would Impose Few New Costs
CBO has concluded that several management-related bills advancing in Congress would add relatively little to agencies’ operating costs, in part …More
More Can Be Done on Unneeded Reports, Says GAO
OMB and agencies could be doing more to call attention to reports that consume more effort to produce than they …More
OMB Lays Out Research Priorities for Agencies
OMB and the White House science office have laid out the administration’s priorities for agencies to reference when drawing up …More
SES Ranks Expand a Bit, Makeup Little Changed
The SES ranks grew slightly in 2016 over 2015, crossing the 8,000 total for the first time since 2012 as …More
Work for Improvement, Not Perfection, Mulvaney Advises
OMB director Mick Mulvaney recently told participants in the CXO Fellows Program–a leadership development program for federal employees in the …More
