Air Force Transfers Civilian Personnel Records to OPM
The Air Force has migrated civilian employee official personnel records to the OPM eOPF version (a secure, digitized version of …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersAcademy Recommends End to Financial Disclosure Requirements in STOCK Act
The National Academy of Public Administration has recommended suspending provisions in the STOCK (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) Act that …More
Legal Challenges Delay Air Traffic Control Tower Closings
The FAA will delay plans to close 149 contract air traffic control towers until June 15 in order to deal …More
GAO Finds Overlap Among Criminal, Anti-Terrorism Centers
After looking into field-based information sharing entities such as the Joint Terrorism Task Forces and major urban area fusion centers, …More
OMB Notes Flexibility in Reprogramming Funds Under Sequestration
OMB has issued further guidance on the management and implementation of sequestration and explaining how agencies might shift money to …More
OPM Cancels Benefits Conferences
OPM has canceled its annual Benefits Conference and does not plan to hold its annual the Fall Festival of Training, …More
USPS Should Better Communicate Consolidation Impacts, Says IG
The Postal Service has repeatedly revised plans to optimize its mail-processing network and management could improve communications with stakeholders by …More
GSA Releases Draft Requests for New Acquisition Program
The Federal Acquisition Service has released two draft request-for-proposals for an acquisition program to deliver better value and savings through …More
IG Questions Contractor Salaries for Oak Ridge, Tennessee Cleanup
A senior manager at the Department of Energy approved above-market contactor executive salaries without proper authority, the department’s inspector general …More
GAO Calls for Better Coordination of Federal Energy Efficiency Programs
Federal programs to increase the energy efficiency of household appliances and consumer electronics are fragmented and overlapping, and there is …More
OPM Starts Exit Survey for Departing Senior Executives
OPM has announced it developed a government-wide exit survey to be administered to all departing members of the senior executive …More
GAO: More Competition Needed in Defense Contracting
DoD’s competition rate for all contract obligations declined over the past five fiscal years, from 62.6 percent in fiscal 2008 …More
FAA Closing Contract Towers, Guidance Issued
The FAA has announced that 149 contract air traffic control towers will close starting April 7 as part of the …More
House Budget Targets Property Sales
The House-passed budget outline for the upcoming fiscal year endorses a recommendation from the Simpson-Bowles debt-reduction group calling for stepped-up …More
Land, Fleets Also Targeted
The House budget also targets savings in the federal auto fleet, noting that the Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended cutting it by …More
DHS Must Improve Management of Major IT Investments, Says GAO
About $1 billion in major DHS IT investments have one or more subsidiary projects that are failing to meet cost …More
OMB Highlights Lessons Learned from Portfolio Stat IT Reviews
OMB has issued a memo highlighting best practices from its PortfolioStat IT management review process and establishing guidance for fiscal …More
PortfolioStat Sessions to Take Place in Three Phases
Moving forward, the PortfolioStat sessions will emphasize the above best practices for maturing agency management of IT resources and take …More
OPM Offers Furlough Teleconferences
Each Thursday through April 25 at 1-2 p.m. Eastern time, OPM is offering teleconferences providing guidance and technical assistance regarding …More
Pentagon Announces Reduced Furlough Days
DoD has announced that it revised the number of days civilian employees will be forced to take furloughs from 22 …More
Union Skeptical Furloughs that are Necessary
The American Federation of Government Employees responded to Pentagon’s announced furlough delay by calling for the elimination of furloughs altogether …More
IG Calls for Review of VA Nursing Homes
Oversight weaknesses and untimely eligibility reviews for 30 VA nursing homes resulted in the renewal of five ineligible nursing home …More
OGE: Ethics Laws and Regs Still Apply During Furlough Period
The Office of Government Ethics has issued a legal advisory reminding executive branch employees that ethics laws and regulations continue …More
DoD Launches Health, Wellness Initiative
DoD has announced that it selected 13 sites to participate in a Healthy Base Initiative – HBI, demonstration project aimed …More
IG Notes Positive Feedback in Compliance Audit Process
A compliance assurance process the IRS is using to conduct real-time audits of businesses with assets over $10 million is …More
OMB Requires Use of Shared-Service Financial Systems Going Forward
OMB has issued a memo directing all executive agencies to use, with limited exceptions, a shared service solution for future …More
Could Take Several Years to Get Shared Services Providers Up to Speed
OMB said ensuring that federal shared service provides are capable of meeting the needs of all agency customers could take …More
GAO Calls on DHS to Validate List of Priority Assets and Report to Congress
DHS has made several changes to its criteria for including assets on the National Critical Infrastructure Prioritization Program – NCIPP, …More
Study Warns of Quick, Across-the-Board Cuts
A study of the effects of workforce reductions in the 1990s under the National Performance Review concludes that many of …More
Calls on Congress Assist in Better Targeting Reductions
The study by the Coalition for Effective Change calls on Congress to reflect on the outcomes of the reductions in …More
