Contains IT Workforce, Procurement Reforms
HR-4435, which passed on a vote of 325-98, also contains provisions aimed at bolstering the acquisition workforce. For example, it …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersHouse Panel Passes Bill to Eliminate Some Door Delivery of Mail
The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee has passed a narrow postal reform measure to phase out some door-delivery of …More
CHCOs Paint Dire Picture of Workforce
The Partnership for Public Service has issued a report prepared with Grant Thornton that indicates budget cuts, criticism of public …More
Declining Employee Engagement Also a Concern
Another problem CHCOs and HR leaders identified is that the levels of engagement and satisfaction employees feel for their jobs …More
Interior Lacks Guidance on Injection Wells
The Department of Interior has no overarching guidance or policy to assist bureaus in complying with EPA’s regulations concerning certain …More
GSA Announces Professional Services Contracts
GSA has announced contract awards to 74 companies for complex professional services under its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services …More
GAO: Agencies Taking Steps to Improve Suspension and Debarment Programs
Agencies seem to be taking action to incorporate characteristics associated with active suspension and debarment programs, GAO has said based …More
Interior May Not be Getting Market Value for Extracted Minerals
Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has little assurance it obtains market value for mineral materials, recovers processing costs for mineral …More
VHA Conducting Internal Review
In a message to veterans VA secretary Eric Shinseki pledged to take action if allegations of employee misconduct involving wait …More
Defends Work of VA Employees
Shinseki had pledged to hold any employees found to have engaged in misconduct accountable following the conclusion of the investigations, …More
Senator Impatient for Reports on Clearances
The head of the Senate federal workforce subcommittee, John Tester, D-Mont., has criticized agencies for failure to comply with a …More
DHS Tapping Private Sector for Assistance
DHS has announced new openings through its Loaned Executive Program to support travel and tourism under TSA and Customs and …More
Don’t Send Used Electronics to the Dump, GSA Tells Agencies
GSA is preparing to issue a final rule banning the disposal of old computers, copiers and other hardware in landfills, …More
OMB Updates Acquisition Certification in Contracting
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has issued updated requirements for the Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C), originally issued …More
Report Considers How to Leverage Big Data to Optimize Processes
The USPS inspector general has issued a report following a forum with postal and big data experts considering how crunching …More
GSA to Test Vehicle Safety Devices for Highway Safety Administration
GSA has announced a partnership with the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to test and evaluate potential …More
EEOC Seeks Input on Model Employer Policy
EEOC is seeking comments, through July 14, on issues related to the federal government’s practices in hiring people with disabilities, …More
IG: VHA Lacks Information on Mobile Medical Units
The Veterans Health Administration lacks information about the mobile medical units it deploys and has not collected sufficient data to …More
USPS: 5,581 Postal Employees Attacked by Dogs Last Year, Houston Leads Pack
Houston led the nation in the Postal Service’s annual nationwide dog attack city rankings, in a year in which 5,581 …More
Performance Improvement Council Throws Down a Challenge
GSA’s Performance Improvement Council has announced a challenge for the best ideas to improve public sector management. Challenge rules state …More
Registration Open for Leading EEO Conference
Registrations are now being accepted for the EXCEL Conference, the primary annual conference on employment discrimination issues, which this year …More
President Signs Bill to Organize Detailed Spending Data on Single Website
The President has signed into law the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 – or Data Act – to …More
Bill Could Widely Impact Data Creation, Management
The Data Act also requires OMB to establish a two-year pilot program to develop recommendations for standardized reporting elements across …More
GAO: Incremental IT Development Policies Need to be Cleared Up
The Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs have established policies that address incremental …More
OMB Looking to PortfolioStat to Drive President’s Management Agenda
OMB has issued guidance for conducting PortfolioStat IT review sessions in the remainder of fiscal 2014, seeing the data-driven reviews …More
Use of Competitions on the Rise
The use of prize competitions among government agencies has increased 87 percent over the prior year, according to the Office …More
SSA Needs to Address Management Limitations in IT Modernization
Certain Social Security Administration IT projects did not fully adhere to management controls called for by agency IT project management …More
Plan for 2 Percent Discretionary Cut, OMB Tells Agencies
OMB has issued guidance to agencies looking ahead to their fiscal 2016 budget submissions, saying it will work with agencies …More
Guidance Pushes Continued Investment in Cross-Agency Priority Goals
The fiscal 2015 White House budget request includes a set of reform priorities falling into four areas – effectiveness, efficiency, …More
GSA Demos Projects Being Developed with New Digital Incubator
GSA is continuing its rollout of a new 18F digital incubator program and recently held an event in Washington, D.C. …More
