FAA Deploys Air Traffic Flow System
The FAA has announced the initial deployment of a new system called Time-Based Flow Management – TBFM, designed to optimize …More
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched a smartphone app designed to solicit public input to help with identifying and locating …More
Partnership Graduates Excellence in Government Fellows
The Partnership for Public Service has announced that 200 federal employees from 26 agencies have graduated from its Excellence in …More
Supervisors Included in Postal Early Out Offers
The Postal Service is reportedly sending voluntary early retirement offers to 15,580 employees as part of continued efforts to downsize.USPS …More
GAO: Agencies Need to Address Potentially Duplicative IT Investments
GAO has said DoD, DHS and HHSmust address potentially duplicative IT investments accounting for about $321 million in reported IT …More
IG Calls on DoE to Strengthen Contractor Responsibility Determinations
The Department of Energy has processes in place to restrict contracts going to entities with tax delinquencies and those deemed …More
Reminder Issued on Diversity Initiative
OPM has sent a memo to agencies reminding them of their responsibilities under a 2011 executive order designed to promote …More
Senator to Feds: Turn Off the Lights
A leading Republican senator wants the government to remind its employees of what parents constantly tell their children: turn off …More
CBP Looks to Reimbursable Services to Support Growth in Trade, Travel
Customs and Border Protection has announced preliminary selections for five new public-private partnerships through which it will provide reimbursable services …More
Partnership: Interagency Experience Should SES Requirement
The Partnership for Public Service has called on OPM to make interagency, or intergovernmental, experience and enterprise leadership competencies a …More
Union Cites Purported Mail Delays in Effort to Slow Postal Consolidation
The American Postal Workers Union has filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission alleging that the USPS is failing …More
Return of Overtime Boosts Reduction of Retirement Application Backlog
OPM has announced reduction in its retirement claims inventory after progress had stalled in the face of sequestration. It said …More
OMB Requires Increased Use of Acquisition Training System
OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy has directed agencies to reduce duplication of workforce management information systems and to leverage …More
New Features Planned
According to the memo, the FAI is planning to add new functionality to FAITAS to further support acquisition workforce training …More
IG Calls for Faster Processing of Veteran Pension Payments
Pension payment processing delays resulted in $308 million in underpayments and $194 million in overpayments in fiscal 2012, the Department …More
OPM Urges Involvement in Charity Drive
OPM has sent its annual memo to agencies urging them to encourage employees to make donations to the Combined Federal …More
FAA Lacks Metrics to Determine Impact of New Controller Scheduling
The FAA revised air traffic controller scheduling policies following an uproar in 2011 after a few controllers were found to …More
Executive Order Sought Following Whistleblower Case
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has asked President Obama to issue an executive order restricting the ability of federal agencies to …More
IG Calls for Management Emphasis on Use of Non-Career Employees
The USPS has saved money using a new category of non-career employees called postal support employees, or PSEs, for customer …More
Some Clerk Craft PSEs to Convert to Career Positions
The American Postal Workers Union meanwhile has announced an agreement with USPS to convert the first 399 clerk craft PSEs …More
OMB Issues Implementing Guidance for Charge Card Legislation
OMB has issued guidance for implementing the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, requiring all executive branch agencies …More
GAO: Stronger Oversight of DoD Corrosion Projects Needed
DoD is working to manage equipment corrosion and invested over $63 million in 88 projects from fiscal 2005 – 2010 …More
FAA Authorizes Drone Use to Help Fight Yosemite Fire
The FAA has announced an agreement that recently gave fire fighters battling a fire engulfing a large swath of Yosemite …More
Air Traffic Controller Training Issues Examined
The FAA is making progress with air traffic controller facility training but additional progress is needed, the Department of Transportation …More
GAO Calls for Better Quality Assurance for Claimant Representation
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of General Counsel procedures do not sufficiently ensure that accredited representatives have good character …More
Army Memo Addresses Furlough Scheduling Quirks
The Army has issued instructions on handling situations in which its employees either took more furlough time than ended up …More
Bill Allowing IG to Use OPM Revolving Fund for Audits Would Cost $13 Million
Legislation under consideration in the Senate that would permit OPM’s inspector general to use money from the agency’s $2 billion …More
IG Calls for Improved Postal Product-Costing System
The USPS uses several best practices to derive product-costing data but changes are needed to reduce postal investments in the …More
Slight Increase for Per Diems on Average
GSA has announced that standard federal travel per diem rates will increase in fiscal 2014 to $83 from $77 for …More
CBP Making Progress on Ensuring Officers are Fully Trained
Customs and Border Protection has made progress and continues to take action to strengthen officer training, GAO has said in …More
